Get your loved ones a Malagasy gift for Christmas and New Year!

2017 GIFT BROCHURE

The MfM calendar, Christmas cards and Alternative gifts are now available from our on-line shop on the MfM website http://moneyformadagascar.org/shop

This year’s calendar focuses on Malagasy daily life, from simple daily routines to the joyful play of children. Using black and white images, Pierre-Yves Babelon captures the contrasts of Madagascar and the humanity of its remarkable friendly people. Cost £ 7.50 each including postage & packing.

We also have a choice of 2 seasonal greetings cards

This is one of the two delightful Christmas cards available for you this year:

It is a photograph of a traditional Malagasy embroidery entitled " Going home for Christmas Malagasy style"

The greeting inside the card says “Season’s Greetings” in English, Malagasy and Welsh.

This is the other available card for you:

The card shows the national flower of Madagascar, the Poinsettia, against a backdrop of the dramatic Chutes de la Lily near Ampefy in the Central Highlands. The greeting inside the card says "Season's Greetings" in English, Malagasy and Welsh.

Cards cost £ 4.50 per pack for 10 cards and envelopes including UK postage.

Are you looking for a different gift this Christmas...

If you are fed up with giving or receiving yet more socks, toiletries or chocolates… you can bring the gift of joy for someone in Madagascar? It's simple really... visit our online shop and choose an 'Alternative Gift' like schooling, hot meals or precious trees...something that is desperately needed in Madagascar. Then you either buy it for your friend or you could ask your friend to buy an alternative gift for you. That way you can be sure this year’s Christmas present will be VERY much appreciated by you and your friends and especially by the people in Madagascar whom you have chosen to help.

Just £10 could buy 5 fruit trees and enough vegetable seeds for an average-sized school garden. School gardens and fruit trees not only teach children cultivation skills but also provide good nutrition to prevent them from getting diseases.

Alternatively, you could also help increase and preserve Madagascar’s unique and highly rich biodiversity through replanting primary forests in order to save its distinctive flora and fauna.

Over 80% of the species in Madagascar are endemic however; only 20% of its original forest remains and its rich biodiversity is at risk.

As a different gift this year you could help MfM’s partners to replant primary forests and to save both the fauna and flora that provide the world with important ecosystem services such as life-saving medicines.

£25 could fund the planting and aftercare of 50 native forest trees.

To make an order please shop online at MfM SHOP

Thanks for your support

If you had a magic wand, what would you wish for Madagascar?

Thoughts from Pasteur Yvette Rabemila

Pasteur Yvette Rabemila was one of the founders of Money for Madagascar. Thirty years on and she is still an active supporter of MfM and is also a highly respected member of Madagascar’s civil society. Her career has included working for the Council for World Mission in London, lecturing at the Faculty of Theology in Antananarivo and serving as Vice-President to the Federation of Protestant Churches in Madagascar (FJKM). At a recent gathering she gave a moving speech about her hopes and wishes for Madagascar and we are delighted to share it with you. Her speech goes like this:

"  If I had a magic wand I would wish:

·       That our beloved country of Madagascar gets out of the poverty into which the poor have been placed.

·       That we don’t see any more very young children, and the not so young, begging everywhere in town and that they would go to school.

·       That our youth find the jobs, which suit them.

·       That peace, justice and righteousness become something familiar to everyone.

·       That everyone’s right to live in peace be respected and that there is no corruption anywhere.

·       That this would mean that all those who govern the country, whether elected or appointed are put in their positions without any suspicious or corrupt ways.

·       That the use of money everywhere may be the right one, taking into account, first of all, the needs of vulnerable people.

·       That everyone can have access to free health facilities.

·       That the whole population can take advantage of the great wealth of the country under the ground (gold and numerous precious stones), on the ground (precious wood, agricultural resources), in the sea (oil and fish of all kinds). Even the sun is an unlimited source of energy.

Unfortunately, for the time being, only a tiny minority of Malagasy people are multi-millionaires, while more that 95% of us live in extreme poverty and the situation is getting even worse every day. These are some of the things I would wish for my country if I had a magic wand. But even if I don’t have a magic wand I still have these things to long for."

We've won £1000 for books for Madagascar schools! 

Thank you for voting! 

We are delighted to have won the Better World Books Literacy Grant competition. Now we can provide hundreds of books to 35 remote rural primary schools and centres for vulnerable children. Many schools have virtually no books at all, so this grant will be a big boost to the education of thousands of children. 

Thank you for voting and spreading the word -

 we did it together!

Vote for MfM!

Please Vote for us to Win Funding for Books to Feed Hungry Minds in Rural Madagascar!

We are delighted to have been selected as finalists in the Better World Books Literacy Grant competition. The winners will now be chosen by a social media vote. Please will you vote for us so that we can provide new books to children in deprived rural schools? 

The vote will close at 5pm on the 23rd of September. To vote for us please follow the link below:

VOTE FOR MFM

Please encourage your friends to vote for us too.

Thank you!

Table Top Sale for MfM

We are always delighted when our supporters help out with fundraising activities. Recently in Lancaster, Rahael and Peter along with their dad Andrew held a table top sale. They raised £88 by selling allotment produce, cakes, flapjacks, books and toys!

If you would like to fundraise for MfM or would like to know more about the work that we do, please follow the link below:

https://www.moneyformadagascar.org