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SEED Madagascar is a charity for Sustainable Environment, Education and Development in and for Madagascar.

Madagascar is one of the most incredible, unique, magical destinations in the world. What you can see and experience there you can't anywhere else globally. 

It is also one of the world's least developed countries, and most impoverished. Most people live in multidimensional poverty and nearly all below the international poverty line.

Madagascar is one of the top three countries considered vulnerable to the climate crisis, which is increasingly evident: Droughts and cyclones are increasingly frequent, severe and subject to erratic seasonal change, exacerbated by the existing poverty.

This year's drought is the worst in 40 years. This is having an extreme impact on food, causing shortages and increased prices.

Madagascar has the first famine in the world caused by climate change, not conflict, the only one out of the 5 places in the world with famine currently (Earthbound Report, 2021).

Additionally, the Covid19 pandemic closed all international and domestic routes in 2020, with global and country lockdowns worsening the desperate plight of Madagascar as food distribution also becomes an issue, making a terrible situation even worse.

In southern Madagascar, 1.5 million people in the region, approximately half the population, are unable to find enough food to eat, with at least 135,476 children aged between six months and five years suffering from acute malnutrition.

The situation is expected to worsen. 

This is an urgent crisis that needs to be widely addressed and the charity in Madagascar has the capacity and community connections to help.

SEED Madagascar's Emergency Food Distribution project, commenced in February 2021 and currently targets seven rural health clinics across 41 high-risk villages in the southern region of the country, where no other charities are currently supporting, to

• Distribute Food: In collaboration with local community health centres, the charity distributes ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) and unprepared food, including rice, beans, and oil, to those most in need: children suffering from moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) or severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and their families.
• Treat Children: Building on ongoing organisational efforts to improve the COVID-19 prevention capacity of healthcare facilities in these sites, the charity is facilitating healthcare providers in identifying and treating children with acute malnutrition, which contributes to 50% of childhood deaths.
• Finance Emergency Transportation: To hospital for children with SAM who have additional complications such as respiratory infections, oedema, or dehydration.
• Educate Families: Nutrition education is also delivered to all families of children with SAM or MAM to support sustainable behaviour change, whilst healthcare providers are trained to monitor and support their recovery.
• Capacity Build: Working collaboratively with the local healthcare system to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and recovery of malnutrition through intensive training to Community Health agents.

Here's how your support could help:

£10 - Will provide enough ready-to-use therapeutic food portions for a child with acute malnutrition for 17 days (covers one 15-day cycle of nutrition for a child with moderate acute malnutrition).

£25 - Will buy a whole sack of rice containing 170 portions for distribution to families with malnourished children.

£50 - Will pay for a Community Liaison Officer to enable distribution of food throughout the community for a month.

£120 - Will provide enough basic food to feed a family for the next 3 months.

£150 - Would buy 100 Litres of oil for distribution to families for cooking foods.

Can you donate to help support charity SEED Madagascar's famine relief project?