Holistically Alleviating Poverty in Madagascar

SEED’s multifaceted approach to improve healthcare, education, livelihoods opportunities and environmental resilience, is helping protect the vulnerable environment and improve the long-term quality of people’s lives. To achieve this, SEED is providing knowledge, skills, and access to various facilities and resources.

To improve education, SEED has and continues to build schools, provide WASH facilities and learning resources like school benches. Under the schools’ project, Beraketa is the most recent. The three-room school building has been roofed, doors and windows installation are underway and the desk benches are under construction. This project is due for completion by end of October 2023.

Under the emergency food distribution programme, £24,100 was raised early this year to successfully deliver an additional round of food distribution to support communities at a time when vulnerability to food security was most pronounced. In this additional round, 378 children under age of 5 with acute malnutrition were supported with ready-to-use-therapeutic-food (RUTF) and an additional 2098 of their family members received unprepared food parcels. All children diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition and 349 out of the 350 with moderate acute malnutrition recovered, resulting in an overall recovery rate of 99.73%. To further support these communities, SEED is preparing for the next three-year stage of its Recovery and Resilience Programme, which aims to contribute to the reduction of acute malnutrition among children, improving health service delivery to better meet the needs of malnourished children and the community, promote positive social behaviour change to reduce susceptibility to malnutrition.

On the other hand, the bee keeping project is carrying out outreach efforts to gauge the interest of the new potential participants in preparation for subsequent recruitment into this income generating venture.

Beraketa school will serve a total of 129 students and seven teachers, the recovery and resilience programme aims to directly support 77, 038 people, and the bee keeping venture will add participants from 3 new communities into the project. Thanks to our donors, SEED continues to holistically alleviate poverty in Madagascar, through these and many other projects.