A study suggests that an agro-forestry project in Panama collects less carbon than it had originally hoped to. Though it should not be the responsibility of people – like those of Panama and Madagascar – who live in carbon sinks to collect carbon for the rest of the world, MfM and Malagasy people are doing so, even as they and we remember that there is more to development and environmental protection than carbon collection alone. A PANAMA agroforestry project is revealing that MfM’s multi-layered approach to environmental protection and livelihoods may be more effective than those with a single focus....

YOUNG women in a land-locked, remote area of Madagascar are taking the lead in their communities’ response to climate change. A Money for Madagascar programme in Maintirano, capital of the Melaky region in western Madagascar, has helped 16 women aged 20-45 lead a series of initiatives which are building better lives for women, and the communities of which they are part, in the face of climate change and ongoing poverty and comparative isolation. The Femmes menant des Innovations dans leur Environnement pour leur Résilience Economique et Sociale et celle de leurs communautés, or FIERES – which translates in English as...

‘What I appreciate most at the centre is the character of the director and the educators who all know how to relieve and comfort me, who filled the hole left by lack of affection from my family.‘ Maminirina Randrianarison, 14 ‘The girls are in danger. The building is at risk of collapse.‘ Hery Fanomezantsoa Faraniaina, AAF centre director   A centre for girls left homeless or without adult care faces catastrophe in Madagascar. We are working on a swift, appropriate, effective response. Heavy rains in Madagascar threaten the safety of vulnerable girls at a centre providing shelter, care and education...

MONEY for Madagascar has joined 108 other civic and non-governmental organisations calling on the President of the Malagasy Republic to suspend work on an ambitious, but so far destructive, road-building project in the country’s east. The Antananarivo-Taomasina highway project – funded by the IMF – has the potential to considerably improve communications between the capital city and East coast of Madagascar, though as we have previously noted, it also risks the destruction of large swathes of Malagasy rainforest, which must not take place. But in the first few weeks of construction, local communities living along the 80km stretch on which...

On International Women’s Day, Saturday 8 March 2025, we note that gender equality benefits everyone, and stress that equality is not only worthwhile because it helps everyone economically, but because we are all equally worthy and deserving of fundamental rights, equal opportunities, and equal outcomes from our efforts. We are helping Malagasy women and girls – with engagement also from men and boys – to promote gender equality and create and make the most of their opportunities, skills, ideas and talent. With Money for Madagascar and our partners, Malagasy women are improving our world, one step at a time. On...

On UK and Ireland Word Book Day, we take the opportunity to share how our work is helping Malagasy people – children and adults – access and engage with books and reading. Today, the UK and Ireland mark Word Book Day (globally, the World Book and Copyright Day is 23rd April). It’s celebrated by children and young people dressing as characters from their favourite books, and at schools and homes to promote the benefits of reading, including reading for pleasure. Books are many things, including gateways to pleasure, information and knowledge. All are important and help each of us build...

Today (3 March 2025) is World Wildlife Day, a moment in which we celebrate the world’s wildlife and conservation work done to protect it and the ecosystems of which animals, plants and we are part, and upon which we all rely. At Money for Madagascar, wildlife and the ecosystems of which it’s a vital part, are matters close to our heart, and indeed at the heart of our our work. Madagascar is a country of remarkable and unique wildlife. Eighty percent of plant and animal species native to Madagascar are found nowhere else on Earth, and the country hosts five...

THOUSANDS of children, young people and adults in a growing but underserved Malagasy town are set to benefit from a facility providing education advice, training, healthcare, access to books and technology, and food. The Ankizy Gasy Mentoring Centre, in Ambohidatrimo is set to open officially tomorrow (Saturday 1 March 2025). It has already been offering services to young people and will become a hub providing six major services designed to improve health, learning and living standards in the town. Ambohidatrimo is just 15km from Madagascar’s capital city Antananarivo, and five km from its international airport. It is experiencing rapid population...

In the wake of floods killing at least 11 people following extreme rains in Madagascar, we call once again for the country and its people to receive proper assistance to deal with and help reduce the impacts of climate catastrophe. Severe flooding, including of the Sisaony and Ikopa rivers in Analamanga in which Malagasy’s capital Antananarivo sits, is known to have killed 11 people in the region, though the true cost in human lives, in the region and wider Malagasy state, is not yet known. At least 3,000 homes have been flooded, at least 13 destroyed entirely, and more than...

Money for Madagascar and Malagasy people have shown sustainable development can build a better future for Madagascar, in a project which has empowered communities to protect their environment while improving their incomes and living standards. Our Empowering Communities for Conservation and Livelihoods in Madagascar initiative (ECCLiM), supported by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) has successfully assisted thousands of Malagasy people to improve their incomes, and their control over them, while protecting and promoting the unique, vital, environment in which they live. From July 2023 to December 2024, our project worked with communities in three Malagasy, in three Key Biodiversity...

We are aware that our supporters and partners have understandable concerns about our position and situation in the light of developments in the US and now the Netherlands. At present, we are not directly affected by the measures taken by the US government. We do not receive funding from USAID. Nor do we receive support from the Dutch government, so we will not be directly negatively impacted by its decision to replicate the US administration’s measures. But everyone in Madagascar is likely to be negatively affected by a reduction in funding to the republic. We must all stand – and...

Babies and very young children at our partner’s centre in Antananarivo are growing and healthy thanks to an intervention from another of our partners in Madagascar. Babies and very young children who have been rescued from danger or desperate situations are being helped to grow and thrive by a partner of Money for Madagascar. The Akany Avoko Ambohidratrimo Centre (AAA), provides children aged 0-18 who have been forced from their homes, or live in situations where they are not or cannot be properly cared for, shelter, food, healthcare, clothes, education, vocational and life skills training, leisure activities, emotional and psychological...