Please help save a child’s education for just a few pounds. Many parents are struggling to scrape the money together to pay for the obligatory enrolment fees for the start of the school year on 1st September. This year, schools are opening early to try to catch up lost time when schools were shut due to the pandemic. Many parents normally save this…
Marielle used to work as a domestic worker for a family in Antananarivo but ran into problems with the family. She was placed at the AAF centre in 2017. She is a very well- behaved and hard working girl and wanted to take a cookery course. She took up a place at La Restauration catering school in Antananarivo and…
We would like to thank the fantastic fundraising achievements of 11-year-old Dylan. He was inspired by watching David Attenborough’s Perfect Planet and wanted to do some fundraising for environmental conservation work. He researched different charities and chose to fundraise for our tree planting programme in Madagascar. During the half-term holiday in February, he ran 5km every day and asked…
Money for Madagascar is a UK based charity, who have been working in Madagascar for 35 years. We work with reputable Malagasy NGO partners, with whom we have strong relationships. There is now a famine in the South of Madagascar. here is a link to an impassioned plea from the World Food Program on CNN this week https://t.co/zd9st5UAnq?amp=1 MfM…
The programme to train local families in different techniques of rice and maize cultivation, planting fruit trees and composting has been successful. The families who took part received seeds, saplings and tools so they were able to put their training into practice and they chose the type of saplings they wanted for their own land. Unfortunately, the drought has…
We have had a very positive report from our Topaza project. Despite the pandemic, there has been a lot of progress. In September, we reported that the construction of the farm buildings was underway. Since then two cows were purchased and a calf was born. The amount of milk from the cows averages 35 litres per week and is…
We are very excited to start a new project, working with a school in near the Andasibe National Park. The school has 96 pupils and work is already well underway to create a kitchen garden to provide produce for the school canteen. After starting at the end of November, the garden was planted with a range of vegetables including…
Our partners in the E4L projects have sent us an update about their progress in the eight schools run by AVM and Ankizy Gasy, Despite the pandemic, we are pleased to report that the work continues. Training has been provided for teachers on child psychology and improving classroom practice and management. School Principals had leadership training. The teachers were…
There is a humanitarian crisis in southern Madagascar where people are starving to death. There has been a drought for a number of years in this area and the restrictions with the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the situation. Movement has been restricted so supplies of food have not been getting to this part of the country. This combination has…
To combat hunger and malnutrition, MfM invests in helping vulnerable children to grown their own organic food. Like here, where a student at Akany Avoko children’s centre is photographed showing a courgette nearly ready for harvest. At this residential centre for vulnerable and destitute kids, harvested rainwater, bio-gas and compost are used to help produce vegetables to feed 150…
Money For Madagascar’s Emergency Appeal Since the…
Money For Madagascar’s Emergency Appeal On Friday,…
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