Caring Response - Madagascar Foundation

“Edwin joseph fsg one st gabriel toamasina 501 madagascar 78,150 0 0 edwin joseph fsg one st gabriel toamasina 501 madagascar 11,866 0 0 edwin joseph fsg one st gabriel toamasina 501 madagascar 9,500 0 0”

“Expenses bank charges 436 conference line 216 promotion 1,786 postage 306 website 16 state filing fees 125 reimbursements 19,712 travel & supplies 6,824 total 29,421”

“Literacy initiative- our literacy centers remain at the core of crmf programing. At any given time, our 15 centers have an average enrollment of 640. More than twelve thousand women and men have completed the four-part literacy curriculum that emphasizes not only reading, writing, and mathematics but basic life skills such as budgeting, sanitation, and gardening. Crmf's computer literacy program enables low income people to learn computer technology skills that increase their chances for better jobs. This program always operates at capacity and has a waiting list. This program offers three two-hour sessions per day, five days a week on a rolling five-week cycle. The literacy centers serve as the hub for the seeds project funded in cooperation with the watson foundation. This program, now in its fourth year, provides fruit and vegetable seeds for family gardens. Thus our literacy centers help combat the growing rate of malnutrition in madagascar, a problem that has caused stunted growth in 50% of the country's children.”

“Medical education outreach- this project has expanded as a result of crmf's highly successful program to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in toamasina. Since 2011, crmf has brought a medical team to toamasina annually to offer medical education in obstetric and newborn care to the physicians and midwives who staff the ankirihiry public health clinic which serves some 60,000 residents. In 2013, crmf expanded this program and also offered continuing medical education to community physicians on important topics such as asthma control and diagnosing and treating chronic lung disorders, both issues that afflict many of the poor in madagascar. In addition, our medical team held medical clinics for the poor treating some 550 urban and rural men, women and children free of charge.”

“Model healthy village pilot program- crmf raised more then 86,000 to fund a multi-year pilot project that will bring clean water, safe sanitation and hygiene education to two remote rural areas in madagascar. The installment of family latrines and water filters, along with appropriate health education begain in 2014 in fontsimavo and ampasimbolo.”