{"id":23894,"date":"2025-11-25T14:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/?page_id=23894"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:37:03","slug":"focus-children-and-communities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/fr\/get-involved\/big-give-2025\/focus-children-and-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) Help Children and Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"

D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en English<\/a>.<\/p>

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Now the Big Give challenge 2025 has ended, we want to tell you about how together, you and we are going to transform the lives of many more Malagasy children, and of everyone in the communities of which they are part.<\/h4>\n

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This year’s Big Give ran for seven days, from Tuesday 2nd to Tuesday 9th December 2025.<\/h4>\n

We set our biggest-ever target: \u00a350,000 in donations during the week, which would be doubled in value because of our pre-pledgers and the Coles-Medlock Foundation, our champion fundraiser, to \u00a3100,000.<\/h4>\n

Your response was amazing: thanks to your kindness, generosity and dedication to getting the word out about what we were targeting, and why, we reached our target with two and a half days of the seven days remaining: we got to \u00a350,000 late on Saturday\/early Sunday 6th\/7th of December.<\/h4>\n

Thank you so much!<\/h4>\n

This was doubled to \u00a3100,000, and even then, you kept donating, so we finished with a total of \u00a3101,602.<\/h4>\n

And we want to let you know what your donation will do, and why it’s so important.<\/h4>\n

Madagascar is a beautiful country, with a wealth of extraordinary environmental riches: five per cent of all the world\u2019s species are found here, and of those close to 90 per cent are found only<\/em> here.<\/h4>\n

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Malagasy people, like people everywhere, are intelligent, motivated and want and deserve to live lives in comfort, the reward for their efforts and innovation.<\/h4>\n

But Madagascar is the world\u2019s fourth-poorest country. More than 1.32m Malagasy people live in a situation of \u2018acute food insecurity\u2019, a term which means they lack sufficient food to meet their basic needs, threatening their health, strength and ability to work: their lives. The next \u2018level\u2019 of food shortage is famine.<\/h4>\n

Many many more Malagasy people suffer hunger daily. Most miss at least one meal a day.<\/h4>\n

The impact on children is stark. Because of hunger, ill-health and poverty:<\/h4>\n