We at Money for Madagascar are proud to have become a member of the Population Health Environment Madagascar Network (PHE). The 88-member network unites health and environmental organisations, helping one another work with and for more than 830,000 men, women and children in remote and threatened areas. PHE helps organise peer exchange, promotion of best practice and integrated programmatic…
Madagascar has led calls for Southern African nations to increase their manufacturing capacity to 30 per cent of their GDP by 2030. The island republic on Sunday (17th August) hosted the 45th Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit of Heads of State and Government – the first time it has hosted the annual meeting. Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina assumed…
Two reports in recent days have addressed the severity of climate catastrophe’s impact on Malagasy men, women and children. Amnesty International has issued an extremely critical report regarding the treatment of more than 90,000 Antandroy men, women and children who have been forced to flee the Androy region in Southern Madagascar since 2017. The region has been stricken by…
‘Bordeaux (who only wished to give his first name), a farmer with sharp features, does not know who Donald Trump is, but he knows that everything stopped for him in February. Suddenly, gone were the promises of a permanent house, enough seed for five years, fertilizers, farming equipment and technical support to cultivate a two-hectare field provided by the…
Our colleague, trustee and friend Theresa Haine, alongside another vital and valued ally Ony Rakotoarivelo, have been justly honoured with the Sir Mervyn Brown Award 2025. The award has been given for their outstanding work with and for Malagasy people and in protection of the country’s culture, its vital wilderness and the promotion and development of partnership between Madagascar…
Madagascar’s Catholic bishops have discussed US aid withdrawal, and care for both the poor and the island’s vital and vibrant environment, in a meeting with the Pope. The Malagasy bishops travelled to the Vatican in a ‘pilgrimage of hope’ to meet Pope Leo XIV – the first such meeting since the latter was elected in May. Bishop Marie-Fabien Raharilamboniaina,…
An astonishingly rare chameleon species has been discovered in a new location in Madagascar – both a cause for celebration and a reminder of the precarious nature of the world in which we live, and the creatures we share it with. A biological research team working in an area of spiny forest in southwestern Madagascar has recorded and reported…
A Malagasy folk tale, like many told around the world, hints at a deal made between people and nature. We share the tale of Ranoro, the Daughter of the Water, here, in part to share a piece of Madagascar’s rich cultural tradition (we will try to do this again, too) and in part to highlight the relationship we –…
Two days of meetings involving Foreign Ministers from European and African Union states have done little to reduce fears that Europe may be turning its back on the continent to its South. Since the rise of Donald Trump to the US presidency, many EU and other European states have announced significant and potentially extremely harmful cuts to international aid…
This year’s International Day for Biodiversity – which falls today, Thursday 22 May 2025 – is being held under the theme: ‘Harmony with nature and sustainable development.’ The phrase could be our slogan, and at Money for Madagascar we work specifically with men, women and children in arguable the world’s biodiversity hotbed to help Malagasy people achieve development and…
One week after it struck Eastern Madagascar,…
At least 38 people have been killed,…
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