ADRA Madagascar
Our Purpose
To serve humanity so all may live as God intended.
Our Motto
Justice. Compassion. Love.
What We Do
We are the global humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church—part of the 20-million strong Adventist community, with hundreds of thousands of churches globally and the world’s largest integrated healthcare and education network.
ADRA has been working in Madagascar, changing the lives of vulnerable populations, for 25 years. The agency was established in 1992 to provide development and relief assistance to people and places most in need, in a country where more that 80 percent of the population live on less than $1.25 a day.
By partnering with local communities, organizations, and governments, we are able to deliver culturally relevant programs and build local capability for sustainable change.
Where we work
Madagascar, a country in southern Africa located in the Indian Ocean, east of Mozambique, is the fifth largest island in the world, with a land mass of 587,000 km2 and 25.6 million inhabitants.
Despite the economy’s sustained growth in recent years, poverty appears to have only slightly decreased, from 77.6% in 2012 (last official statistic) to an estimated 74.1% in 2019, which far exceeds the regional average of 41%.
Nearly 730,000 people will likely experience Crisis (IPC 3) or worse levels of acute food insecurity in parts of southern Madagascar from November to March, a period that coincides with the lean season when food is most scarcest, according to a November IPC analysis. That’s why most of ADRA project’s where implemented in the deep south.
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