{"id":24418,"date":"2026-01-26T23:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/?p=24418"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:47:31","slug":"our-work-how-your-support-is-making-an-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/cy\/our-work-how-your-support-is-making-an-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) Our Work – How Your Support Is Making an Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mae’n ddrwg gen i, mae'r cofnod hwn dim ond ar gael mewn English<\/a>.<\/p>

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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.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

Renewable World\u2019s three main programmes are Renewable Forests and Livelihoods<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, Children for the Future<\/em><\/strong><\/span> and Education for Life<\/em><\/strong><\/span> (we are also part of the Solar United Madagascar<\/a><\/em><\/strong> consortium, working to ensure Malagasy communities have access to power, all of which is generated from renewable resources and technology).<\/h4>\n

All three work to directly address issues facing and threatening Madagascar\u2019s environment, flora and fauna, and Malagasy people, providing Malagasy communities with the space they need to define the challenges they face, and supporting them to deliver their solutions.<\/h4>\n

Almost 90 per cent of plant and animal species in Madagascar are found only here, and\u00a0the island contains five per cent of all the world\u2019s species of flora and fauna.<\/h4>\n

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But Madagascar has\u00a0the world\u2019s fourth-highest rate of deforestation.<\/h4>\n

It has already lost 80 per cent of its natural areas and loses\u00a0around 200,000ha. to deforestation each year.<\/h4>\n

At the current rate of deforestation, the complete loss of Madagascar\u2019s forests will happen within 40 years.<\/h4>\n

And more than 600 Malagasy plant and animal species are threatened with extinction. More than 3.900 (3,912) are \u2018endangered\u2019.<\/h4>\n

Not only is this unacceptable because those animals and plants have as great a right to exist as every person does, it is also a genuine crisis because we all \u2013 including every person \u2013 depend on our forests for survival.<\/h4>\n

And Malagasy people, too, face serious existential challenges.<\/h4>\n

The\u00a0country\u2019s population is one of the world\u2019s poorest: 90 per cent of Malagasy people live on or below the global poverty baseline of \u00a32.22 per day. Eighty per cent rely entirely on agriculture for their income and survival.<\/h4>\n

Even though Madagascar is one of only four countries recognised to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits (a \u2018carbon sink\u2019), the country is experiencing some of the worst impacts of the carbon catastrophe to date, including drought, flooding and the permanent loss of fertile soil due to extreme rainfall events.<\/h4>\n

The reality facing most Malagasy men, women and children is that\u00a0food shortage, hunger and its impacts, including stunting in nearly 50 per cent of children due to malnutrition, are\u00a0not just a threat, but a reality.<\/h4>\n

Understandably, one way they try to improve their lives is by removing forest to access more land, and produce more food.<\/h4>\n

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Poverty and hunger also have serious impacts on young people.<\/h4>\n

One in ten Malagasy children do not reach their tenth birthday. Four in ten do not complete primary school, and hunger, illness and lack of resources prevent many more from regularly attending school.<\/h4>\n

Education is a fundamental human right, yet the shocking and unacceptable reality is that tens of thousands of Malagasy children either cannot attend school, or are unable to fulfil their potential within it.<\/h4>\n

Children who are unable to live with their families in Madagascar can also be placed at serious risk, and face challenges even to survive.<\/h4>\n

Many are forced to become homeless and are at risk of assault or being pushed into crime to escape physical danger and starvation.<\/h4>\n

All three of our major programmes are designed to not only meet these challenges, but to enable Malagasy people to formulate and deliver the solutions to them: we support Malagasy people to create and achieve solutions to Malagasy problems.<\/h4>\n

Education for Life<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(EfL<\/em><\/strong>) works with our Malagasy partners and communities to improve education and access to it for thousands of youngsters and in many cases adults each year.<\/h4>\n

We and our partners:<\/h4>\n