(English) 90 per cent of Malagasy people living in poverty

lundi 8 septembre 2025

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Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. 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…

(English) Dynamic Agro-Forestry: Malagasy people changing practices, changing lives, and benefitting the world

lundi 21 avril 2025

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| agriculture, Aid, climate, climate catastrophe, climate change, community, conservation, DAF, Dynamic Agro-Forestry, Dynamic Agroforestry, education, farming, Fire, food, forest, Green Give, Green Match Fund, lemur, livelihoods, Madagascar, Malagasy, poverty, rainforest, wildlife, women

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. In the previous RFL post, we met Joséphine, a shop-owner and farmer in the PK7 village in Moramanga, part of the Moramanga district in Madagascar’s Toamasina province. In that post we learnt about how Joséphine changed her and her family’s life by taking part in savings and loans projects run by…

(English) Meet the Students – a short introduction to the Fihavanana Centre

mardi 11 février 2025

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| Antananarivo, Children, education, Fihavanana, Girl's Centre, girls, health, homelessness, Madagascar, Malagasy, poverty, Protecting and Enabling Vulnerable Children, school, young women

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. ‘During my two years studying the Women’s Promotion course at the Centre, I gained invaluable skills and knowledge. With the confidence and expertise I’ve developed, I am now ready to seek employment, which will provide the start-up funds for my personal life project: opening a hairdressing salon. My heartfelt thanks also…

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