Eric’s story: supporting livelihoods to protect the forest

We are supporting Malagasy organisations – and Malagasy people like Eric Randrianantoanina – to protect the environment upon which we all rely, and to improve their lives. Meet Eric… Madagascar has some of the world’s most spectacular wilderness. Almost 90 per cent of plant and animal species on the island are found only here, and it contains five per cent…

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We share responsibility for the Malagasy wilderness, and climate catastrophe

Seven Malagasy people are confirmed to have died, and more than 54,000 injured or otherwise affected, as a result of tropical cyclone Fytia. The cyclone struck Madagascar – primarily the country’s North-West – on Saturday (31st January 2026) morning, leaving the island on Sunday. Its wind of up to 210km/h and rainfall destroyed more than 1,400 homes, and flooded…

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Our Work – How Your Support Is Making an Impact

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…

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COP30: What we need

World leaders have gathered in Belem, Brasil under the ongoing shadow of the climate catastrophe, for the 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30). The summit has begun with the world in an unprecedented level of risk from – and in the case of Madagascar experience of the impacts of – climate change, but serious questions must be asked about…

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90 per cent of Malagasy people living in poverty

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…

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MfM Partners in Dynamic, Innovative Nursery Workshop

Money for Madagascar is delighted to have been invited to participate in an innovative international tree-growth and care initiative. The Darwin Nursery Exchange Project is in its final year and its last ‘nurserymen workshop’ – designed to share best practice, experience and build networks in creating tree nurseries to enable reforestation in Madagascar – will take place from 2nd…

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The World Must Listen: the mental and physical impacts of climate catastrophe on Madagascar

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…

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Building better lives through trust

‘MfM is our trust, and we are MfM’s trust’ Jean Pierre Ratsimbazafy, director, SAF FJKM Melaky A celebration of a Malagasy organisation’s 35th birthday – and the 20th anniversary of its ongoing partnership with Money for Madagascar – has highlighted the ways in which trust is building better lives across a region. SAF FJKM Melaky, a development organisation set…

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Funding cuts hit Malagasy communities

‘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…

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Independence Day: history and what comes after

Today marks the start of the 66th year of the modern state of Madagascar. Malagasy people gained their full independence from France, officially, on 26 June 1960. Celebrations usually begin the night before, with celebrations including harendrina and tsipoapoaka (paper lanterns and firecrackers), to banish the ‘darkness of the past’ and welcome in (and commemorate the coming of) the ‘light…

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