Hazo tokana tsy mba ala, Ny firaisakina no hery One tree does not make a forest – Together we are stronger Money for Madagascar’s 40th anniversary has begun in style, with our celebration year’s official launch at the Akany Avoko Ambohidratrimo children’s centre. The event, which begins a year of celebrations of our partnerships, and the achievements of MfM,…
As the new year begins, we wanted to share with you the latest information about our major programmes, to show you how your support and help is making an impact and improving Malagasy lives and the Malagasy biosphere. Renewable World’s three main programmes are Renewable Forests and Livelihoods, Children for the Future and Education for Life (we are also…
One impact of Malagasy youngsters no longer being able to live with their families, alongside poverty, living on the streets and exposure to significant risk, can be the disruption and potential end of their education. Rano Soloniaina, a resident at the AAB centre, explains how he and the Money for Madagascar partner organisation have worked to make sure he…
A summertime pilot scheme run by a centre we helped create, and which is run by a Money for Madagascar partner, has celebrated the success of its first summer activity programme. From 7 July to 30 August, 140 children – 80 aged 4-11 and 60 aged 12-18 – took part in the Ankizy Gasy Mentoring Centre ‘summer sessions’, attending…
A Money for Madagascar partner’s services are so popular it is having to hold activities outdoors because its inside spaces would be overfull. The Akany Hasina centre is a day centre in Ambohitrabiby, a rural area 25km from Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo. Every Saturday, it opens its doors to young people who would otherwise have little to no access to…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded an in-country review of Madagascar’s economic situation with a warning that ‘outside shocks’ ‘cloud’ the country’s economic outlook. While the international financial body, which last year stepped in to provide Madagascar with and Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and a Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF), both of which it believes can help the…
On Thursday 5th June 2025, the World Bank updated its – and the world’s – poverty metric. Up to that date, the international poverty baseline – the line below which anyone is defined as living in poverty – had been an income of US$2.15 (£1.59 at 8th September 2025) or less per day. From then, the income per day…
A Money for Madagascar supporter has raised hundreds of pounds to hep us work with Malagasy men, women and children, with a 100km (62 mile) hill-trek. Gregg Smith completed the timed hike through the UK’s Peak District on 28-29 June, and thanks in part to your help, raised £626, well above his original target of £500. He said: ‘The…
Almost 200 children and staff at a Malagasy primary school now have reliable access to safe, clean water, thanks to Money for Madagascar, its partner and funders. The 191 children, and seven staff, at the EPP Ambohipeno, five km from the centre of Antsirabe, had previously had to walk more than two km round trip to collect water from…
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…
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Madagascar’s head of state Michael Randrianirina has…
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