Caring Response - Madagascar Foundation

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“Name: edwin joseph fsg address ong st. Gabriel 2 rue berthold anjoma mfp toamasina 501 madagascar medical mission 2023 cash contributions: 38,847 name: edwin joseph fsg address ong st. Gabriel 2 rue berthold anjoma mfp toamasina 501 madagascar literacy and core projects cash contributions: 55,061 name: edwin joseph fsg address ong st. Gabriel 2 rue berthold anjoma mfp toamasina 501 madagascar medical fund and medical mission and other cash contributions:39,057”

“Ensuring the wellbeing of young girls this project focuses on keeping urban and rural girls in school and providing them with vocational and income-generating training. Appropriate health education for young girls about their changing bodies, medical checkups, and teaching the girls how to make sanitary pads that are washable and reusable are all provided through this program. Vocational education and opportunities to be trained in skills that are income-generating were offered to girls who are single mothers or who are too old to return to public school. 360 girls that were served by this project in 2023, 180 undertook vocational training. Of that group, 60 were single mothers out of school. 120 school-age girls took training to generate income during holiday periods. 87 have received certificates of completion for their chosen courses. These courses include sewing, leadership, cooking, masonry, soap making, and green charcoal making.”

“Adult literacy program in 2023, crmf continued its support for twelve literacy centers including two at the city prison. The literacy program educates 800 to 1,000 adults every year. Of these adults, approximately 95% of them are women. This program is a national model which combines reading, writing, basic math, civics, and nutrition lessons within its curriculum. Program graduates may enter the women's self-help group project. These projects provide literacy program graduates with a path to economic self- sufficiency. Groups become eligible for loans that can be invested in creating small businesses when they work together and pool their savings. In 2023, 600 women participated in the urban and rural self-help groups.”

“School insertion program for the past three years, crmf has supported a "school insertion" program that re-enrolls into primary school kids who have dropped out of school for financial and family reasons. Crmf pays the school fees for 50 children each year, provides school supplies, and nutrition support. The model healthy village initiative - new initiatives in the pangalene canal region this program aims to improve public health by bringing clean water, hygiene education, safe sanitation, and environmentally friendly smokeless ovens to entire fokontany and its cluster of small villages and hamlets. The money successfully raised in 2023 for this project funded the educational programs and provided clean water filters, sanitary, composting latrines, and charcoal-free cookstoves to 256 families in the ambodisaina-ivondro community. Medical education since 2011, our saving the lives of mothers and babies project has operated successfully at the ankirihiry csb 2 public health clinic. This project includes annual training programs for midwives in best practices in obstetrics and newborn care. The medical mentoring project continued to grow in 2023, giving eight young malagasy medical students the opportunity to shadow u.s. Internal medicine specialists in clinics for the poor. Students received lectures and hands- on opportunities to practice and improve their own clinical skills.”