Caring Response - Madagascar Foundation

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“Name: edwin joseph fsg address: one st gabriel cash contribution: 48,314 name: edwin joseph fsg address: one st gabriel cash contribution: 16,500 name: edwin joseph fsg address: one st gabriel cash contribution: 17,000”

“Expenses bank charges 368 conference line 131 office supplies 126 postage 634 promotion 2,426 state filing fees 100 website 450 zoom 130 total 4,365”

“Literacy initiative- the crmf literacy initiative continues to be at the heart of crmf programming. In 2021, crmf supported adult literacy outreach in eighteen locations including two at the toasmasina city prison. Almost a thousand adults, 15 and older, enrolled in the intensive four-month literacy program in 2021, with 84% graduating after a minimum of 320 hours of classroom learning. This program incldues the basic skills of reading, writing and math, and incorporates into the curriculum topics such as good hygiene, safe 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 literacty initiative is the feeder program for the women's self-help groups. The goal of the self-help groups is to provide literacy program graduates with a path to economic self-sufficiency. By working together and pooling their savings, the groups become eligible for loans that can be invested in creating small businesses. The literacy initiative also continues to support technology education for poor youth, giving them access to computer training that makes them eligibile for better-paying jobs. In addition, the literacy initiative now includes a "school insertion" program that strives to re-enroll into middle school youngsters who have dropped out of school for financial and family reasons. In 2021, some sixty youngsters were re-enrolled in school and provided with school supplies and meals.”

“Assistance in purchasing and repairing ong st gabriel vehicles - in the spring of 2021, the three twenty-year-old vehicles used by our ong st gabriel partners to lead the programs crmf funds became disabled, two beyond repair. Crmf funded the purchase of a used truck and the repair of a car. We also assisted in helping ong st gabriel apply for a grant for the purchase of a third vehicle. These investments enabled our partners on the ground in madagascar to continue their work in our literacy centers and model healthy village.”

“Covid-19 prevention initiatives (continued from 2020) - in 2021, crmf continued to invest in covid-19 prevention programs that provided hygiene instruction, soap, masks, disinfectant, and so on, to families in the model healthy village in analamalotra and participants in the literacy programs.”

“The model healthy village initiative at analamalotra (continued from 2020) - 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 raised 100,000 in support of this effort which also enjoyed rotary foundation support. 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 infections diarrhea among the overall population. In addition, the use of the environmentally friendly smokeless oven has reduced the occurence of respiratory disease. Medical outreach - to help meet the needs of the poor during the difficult economic times brought about by covid-19 and the limits placed on travel and shipping due to the pandemic, crmf purchased medications and supplies for ankirihhiry csb ii, the site of our savings the lives of mothers and babies projects, and for the dispensary antsiramandroso, located in rural tamatave and staffed by montfort sisters.”