Caring Response - Madagascar Foundation

“Name: edwin joseph fsg address: one st gabriel cash contribution: 42,257 name: edwin joseph fsg address: one st gabriel cash contribution: 40,000 name: edwin joseph fsg address: one st gabriel cash contribution: 13,000 name: edwin joseph fsg address: one st gabriel cash contribution: 6,170”

“Expenses bank charges 1,155 conference line 258 promotion 2,117 postage 430 website 18 state filing fees 125 office supplies 733 total 4,836”

“Literacy initiative- the crmf literacy initiative continues to be at the heart of crmf programming. In 2020, crmf supported literacy outreach in thriteen locations including two at toamasina city prison. Since its inception, some sixteen years ago, crmf has celebrated the graduation of 20,000 adults from its functional literacy program which is implemented by our ong st. Gabriel partners. This program includes the basic skills of reading, writing and math, and incorporates into the curriculum topics such as good hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, how to plant and nurture a family garden, and how to create a family budget. These classes are taught in malagasy, the language of the poor, not in french, the language of the learned and the public schools. The literacy initiative is the feeder program for the women's self-help groups. Their combined goal is to provide a path to economic self-sufficiency for poor women. Our literacy initiative also continues to support technology education for poor youth, giving them access to computer training. In addition, the litercy initiative provides employment for the local malagasy people who serve as teachers.”

“The model healthy village initiative at analamalotra - work continued on the model healthy village project at analamalotra despite the disruptions and delays caused by covid-19. As in the previous model healthy villages, the goal is to improve public health by bringing clean water, hygiene education, safe sanitation and environmentally friendly smokeless ovens to an entire fokontany and its cluster of small villages and hamlets. Some four thousand people, more than 800 families, call analamalotra their home, making it the largest of our mhv endeavors. Crmf was able to raise 100,000 in support of this effort.the model healthy village initiative won a second rotary foundation global grant in 2020. Data collected during our past mhv projects have shown that the introduction of the basic hygiene measures mentioned above has substantially reduced both school absenteeism and the rate of infectious diarrhea among the overall population. In addition, the use of the environmentally friendly smokeless oven has reduced the occurence of respiratory disease.”

“Women's self-help groups - while the start of this new women's empowerment intiative was delayed by the stay-at-home orders required during the covid-19 pandemic, the project is now well underway. This initiative provides women who complete the functional literacy curriculum an opportunity to develop entrepreneurial skills. It teaches them that there is power in working together with other women towards financial independence. Twenty self-help groups have already formed in urban and rural settings. They have developed their own constitutions, elected group leaders, and set savings goals. With help from a grant awarded by a local foundation, crmf has funded a loan pool from which the women can borrow in order to advance their small businss projects.”

“Covid-19 prevention initiatives - like the rest of the world, madagascar struggled to protect its residents from covid-19. Caring response madagascar foundation funded covid-19 prevention programs that provided handwashing kits, soap, masks, disinfectant, cooking oil, and rice to every one of the 800+ families in the model healthy village in analamalotra at a time when they were prevented from leaving home and earnings wages. Crmf also funded a hygiene instruction and supplies project for particuipants in more than a dozen literacy centers and at the local prison. Crmf funded the purchase of personal protective gear for the ong st. Gabriel team, for the midwives at the ankirihiry csb ii local clinic and at the clinic for the poor operated by the doctors of the association snate pour tous (ast).”