Money for Madagascar and our partners helped close to 2,000 Malagasy children, including almost 800 who cannot live with their families, in the last year.
In the last full year, Money for Madagascar and its Malagasy partners provided care, shelter, education, food, clean water and education to almost 800 Malagasy children unable to live with their families, and educational and power support to a further 970 young people.
Our Protecting and Enabling Vulnerable Children/Children for the Future (CfF) programme, working at eight centres for orphaned, abandoned, abused, and homeless children, has in 2023-24, reached 779 Malagasy children, 305 boys and 474 girls.
Including a Mentoring Centre, opened on 1 March this year, which provides educational support, access to solar power, and to a library stocked with technical equipment and books, and for which we secured funding, we reached 1,749 children, 730 boys and 1,019 girls.
The programme works at four day-centres, where homeless and otherwise uncared-for youngsters are given meals, health-care including dental care, access to education or vocational training, access to books, computers and other learning materials, and regular contact with responsible adults able to help them and provide care and support they would otherwise not receive.
It also operates at four residential centres where children – including some referred by the Malagasy state – receive meals, health and dental care, access to education, vocational training, care, attention and emotional support, where appropriate work towards family reintegration, and of course a place to live.
You can meet some of the youngsters, and find out more about their experiences and hopes, here and here.
In 2023-24, we helped children at the following centres:
We also helped ensure that:
Ten per cent of children are benefitting from preschool education, promoting their social and educational lives, and the development of essential skills
Thirty-nine per cent of children are continuing their education in primary school, consolidating the foundations of their learning
Sixteen per cent are enrolled in secondary education, six per cent in high school and two per cent continue into university, reaching levels of education that, for many, were once inaccessible
Twenty-seven per cent are receiving specialised and vocational training, to meet the demands of the labour market or start their own business
In each of these cases, as we have noted, these educational opportunities would have been impossible for these young children to access: in every case we have helped children re-start or in many cases start their education, with all the potential and possibility that comes with it.
And this extends to all elements of the programme: these young boys and girls, some of them babies, have no-one to look after them.
Money for Madagascar and our partners – the eight centres and their staff, and Mary’s Meals which provides three nutritious meals as well as snacks for the children every day and formula milk for babies without families – cannot be the children’s families, but we can and do care for and ensure the mental and physical health of the children, and that they receive the opportunities they, like all children, need and deserve.
Other notable achievements include:
The installation of an infiltration pit and drainage channel for the girls’ laundry at the AAF centre, to improve wastewater disposal, sanitation and comfort. A septic tank was built for the girls’ outhouse
Also at AAF, in response to growing energy challenges and to reduce dependence on electricity supplied by the JIRAMA (National Water and Electricity) network, the existing electricity system has been renovated. A hybrid system powered by solar energy has been installed, including the necessary solar panels
The AAF centre’s library building has been completely rehabilitated. Its upper floor was rebuilt and the roof was replaced, but the new library’s infrastructure is not yet complete, and requires additional funding
And in March, a new mentoring centre in Ambohidratrimo, built and managed by Ankizy Gasy, opened and is in operation
We work hard with our partners and with and for Malagasy men, women and particularly in this case, children. And we deliver good outcomes on modest budgets.
But there is more to be done: many Malagasy children remain unreached and unlooked after, while buildings used by the Malagasy government to house youngsters in need of attention and care – not owned or operated by the government itself – are falling into disrepair.
Your help – a donation, or highlighting this need to colleagues, contacts, friends or other connections who might be able to assist – could make a huge difference: to us, and to children in need of a hand to start or reorder their lives in the right way.
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The programme works at four day-centres, where homeless and otherwise uncared-for youngsters are given meals, health-care including dental care, access to education or vocational training, access to books, computers and other learning materials, and regular contact with responsible adults able to help them and provide care and support they would otherwise not receive.
as well as snacks for the children every day and formula milk for babies without families – cannot be the children’s families, but we can and do care for and ensure the mental and physical health of the children, and that they receive the opportunities they, like all children, need and deserve.
