Caring Response - Madagascar Foundation

“Name: edwin joseph fsg address: one st gabriel cash contribution: 45,620 name: edwin joseph fsg address: one st gabriel cash contribution: 25,126”

“Expenses bank charges 345 conference line 353 promotion 2,463 postage 583 website 639 state filing fees 100 reimbursements 115 travel & supplies 3,986 total 8,584”

“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 four-hour sessions per day, five days a week on a rolling five-week cycle. In 2017 the family garden program drew the attention of the national ministries of agriculture and education. It is now being replicated in other parts of the country. With training provided by the literacy teachers of ong st. Gabriel, our permanant partners on the ground in madagascar, and seeds provided by the watson foundation, the local poor have planted thousands of famnily gardens and are sucessfully growing nutritious fruits and vegetables. This is especially significant as madagascars children have one of teh highest rates of stunted growth due to malnuturtion in the world.”

“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.”

“Emergency assistance and relief in september 2017, just as our meidcal tema was preparing to leave madagascar, an outbreak of bubonic plague erupted quickly becoming an epidemic. Crmf donors responded to the epidemic by funding medications and supplies for local doctors who were treating patients at toamasina hospital and by funding the supplies and materials needed to prevent infection amoung the poor in our model healthy village.”