Holistic Support for a Brighter Malagasy Future
We believe that every child deserves a safe, loving environment. Our programmes provide comprehensive care, including food, healthcare, education, and emotional support. We go beyond immediate needs and address the root causes of destitution, ensuring long-term, sustainable solutions for children and their families.
In the last year, we:
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reached almost 2,000 vulnerable children with refuge, food, education, healthcare, and sanitation: almost 800 of those are unable to live with their families
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ensured 92 per cent of the children in residential care homes are in full-time education or vocational training
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heped deliver the new Ankizy Gasy mentorship centre, to provide more than 1,000 children with career guidance and access to technology, in turn benefitting many thousands more Malagasy people
Find out more about our work in 2024, here.

Akany girls enjoying their training in Hospitality
Family-Centered Care
At MfM, we believe the best place for a child is with their family. We welcome the political shift towards family-focused solutions and are committed to helping families stay together whenever possible. When residential care is necessary, we uphold the highest standards, promoting community integration and ensuring that children develop the social and emotional skills they need to succeed.
Supporting Children in Rural and Urban Areas
We work in rural and urban areas, and recognise that poverty in Madagascar is a complex issue that affects children in different ways. In rural communities, we invest in education, health, sanitation, and nutrition, helping to reduce infant mortality and improve life prospects. We also help children who have become destitute in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo. We support day centres and residential centres that provide essential services to homeless, abused, and orphaned children, helping them rebuild their lives and reintegrate into society.

High-Quality Residential Care
For children who cannot return to their families, the four residential centres we support provide the highest quality of care. They focus on restoring family relationships wherever possible, but when it is not, they offer a nurturing environment where children can build confidence and community ties. Activities including joining local sports teams, participating in church choirs, and engaging with volunteers, help these children realise they are connected and valued. The centres also offer vocational training, work experience, and support through higher education, ensuring that each child is equipped to live independently.
A Lifelong Connection
Even after leaving the centres, many children maintain a strong connection to their Akany family. Graduates often return for reunions and celebrations or stay in touch by selling their crafts. For those who wish to remain close, the Akany centres have created a Habitat village, providing a sense of continuity and belonging.
MfM’s Reach and Impact
MfM supports four residential centres and four day-centres. Through these projects, we are committed to protecting and enabling Madagascar’s most vulnerable children, ensuring they have the opportunity to flourish, in their home communities or a supportive residential environment.
Residential Centres:
A refuge for vulnerable children.
Situated on the outskirts of Antananarivo, AAA is a residential children’s home providing a refuge for around 200 abandoned, orphaned or destitute children - boys aged under eight, and girls aged 0-18 - placed by the Malagasy court.
Nearly three decades of support from Money for Madagascar has seen this centre grow from modest beginnings to become one of Madagascar’s leading centres of education, vocational training and social care for children and young people.
A home for destitute boys.
AAB also located on the outskirts of Antananarivo. It is managed by the same team as runs the AAA centre, and was set up close to the original centre to house boys aged eight and older.
Like AAA, AAB provides shelter, food, mental and physical healthcare (including dental care), education and vocational training, as well as providing the boys and young men with the care and attention they need and deserve.
AAF is located on the outskirts of Antananarivo. It is a residential children's home for vulnerable girls placed there by the Malagasy court, with 55 places for girls aged 5-18.
Like AAA and AAB, it is run by the Protestant Church, and like those centres it works to help each of the girls reach their full potential, providing them with food, shelter, healthcare, education and/or vocational training and the care, attention and support the girls need and deserve.
The Topaza centre cares for 60-65 boys and girls aged 0-18. It provides them with shelter, food, education and healthcare. We have worked with the centre on all its activities. At present we are helping provide the children with nutritious food, with our partners Mary's Meals.
The centre is affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar (FJKM), though the children it cares for are sent there by the Malagasy courts.
Day Centres:
The Fihavanana Mahamasina centre, run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, serves children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Antananarivo, many of whom live on the street. Some have dropped out of school or never been to school, while many adolescent girls have had to drop out of school and are left destitute.
The centre provides them complete support, including schooling, snacks and lunches, school materials and basic health care, including dental care, for children aged 5-13. This is provided for one year.
It provides girls aged 14-18 with two-year vocational training, and/or their reintegration into the education system.
The centre serves roughly 150 children and young girls each year.
Located 25km from Antananarivo, in a landlocked area where access to education and information is limited, Akany Hasina promotes civic education through traditional Malagasy culture, in sessions every Saturday and some Wednesday afternoons.
It also provides English classes, a library and environmental education activities.
The centre serves 85 children: on average, 60-65 participate every Saturday.
To meet the children's dietary needs, the centre provides snacks every Saturday; the centre also gives all the children a monthly lunch.
Ankizy Gasy has a particular emphasis on aiding children’s development.
Its centres take care of more than 1,000 children’s basic needs, including supporting their education.
Activities include mentoring, coaching, and career guidance for students, and parent training. During school holidays, the association organises educational and fun activities for children aged five or more.
The Association’s Mentoring Centre was built and opened on 1 March 2025.
Activities at the centre focus on beneficiary training, career management, mentoring, psychological support, as well as training and awareness sessions for parents. The centre offers primary health care provided by nurses and academic support, including tutoring.
At Tsinjo Hasina, we work with our patner Mary's Meals to provide food for 80 children each day.
More than 1,000 children benefit from this programme every year.
MfM believes in investing in children to help them reach their potential. We also invest in the carers so they can be skilled, motivated and caring . Staff training workshops this year have addressed: child protection, child development, multi-sector approaches, and ecological and income generating activities.

