Funding Appeals

Current Funding Appeals

 

Following from the successful results in our current project sites, Feedback Madagascar and Ny Tanintsika constantly receive numerous new requests from communities and local authorities eager for our support in the development of different projects in their areas. These cover the entire range of our integrated projects. Below is a small selection from our current appeals. Please contact us if you would like further information regarding any of the following or our other project appeals.

Tapia Tree Planting Campaign 2008

Appeal: £1,500

Description: The tapia forest is the only natural forest which exists in Madagascar’s highlands. It is home to great wealth, including the production of wild silk cocoons, medicinal plants, plants used for dyes as well as orchids. Eight community forest management associations are supported by NT/FBM in their management and conservation of the tapia forest. Each forest management association carries out reforestation of tapia and other species annually, in order to restore the forests. For the tree-planting campaign this year, the objective of planting 45,000 tapia saplings has been set in order to ensure the reforestation of 30 hectares.
Population to benefit: All the population bordering the tapia forests, around 585 households.
Location: 4 rural areas of the region of Amoron’i Mania : Ambohimanjaka, Ilaka Centre, Ambohimahazo and Anjoma Ankona.
Distance to nearest road: Between 0km and 40km from the national road RN7.

1000 Livelihoods- sustainable income appeal

Appeal: £20,000
Description: Our Sustainable Livelihoods campaign will try to help people out of rural poverty to build a better future, by providing them with a sustainable income through a range of tried and tested cottage industries.Silk production and weaving, wickerwork/basketry crafts and bee-keeping have all proved to be reliable, successful businesses in rural Madagascar. We are confident that we will be able get as many as 1,000 people out of the rut of rural poverty, and into Sustainable Livelihoods, for life. We fill the gaps that the local people cannot supply, by: 

  • Identifying beneficiaries
  • Providing them with technical training and workshops
  • Helping with up-front costs and delivery of materials and equipment
  • Setting up marketing/sales channels
  • Advising on managing environmental impact to make the industries sustainable
  • Helping transfer forest management to locals wherever possible
  • Building, promoting and monitoring the businesses.

Population to benefit: directly the 1000 people trained, indirectly many more, as this project also benefits the families and communties where the sustainable income schemes are implemented.
Location: The neighbouring rural boroughs of Ambohimahamasina & Miarinarivo in the Haute Matsiatra region, and the rural boroughs of Ambohimahazo, Anjoma Ankona, Ambohimanjaka, Ilaka Centre & Ambatofinandrahana in the Amoron'i Mania region, Fianarantsoa province.
Distance to nearest road: Between 15km and 45km to the nearest national road.

click here for downloadable information on the 1000 Livelihoods appeal (PDF, 327KB)

Clean water supply for Sahanimanga

Appeal: £5,000
Description: Villagers in Sahanimanga fetch water from the edge of the ricefields. It has the highest rates of diarrhoeal disease. This project will put in a gravitational water supply system, channeling clean water from a surrounding mountain spring to the village.
Population to benefit: 435
Location: The rural borough of Ambolomadinika, Ikongo district, Fianarantsoa province.
Distance to nearest road: 21km to Ikongo, 134km to Ifanadiana (nearest national road), 188 km from Fianarantsoa

Training for traditional birth attendants in Southern Ikongo district

Appeal: £ 1,333 for 40 TBA
Description: Train traditional birth attendants in some of the most remote and marginalised rural communities, in order to improve maternal and child health and promote family planning. This sum includes their ‘kit’ which they receive on completion of an ‘apprenticeship’ with the local health centre (attending births in the presence of a qualified health agent).
Population to benefit: The training of 40 TBAs will benefit hundreds, even thousands, of women and their families.
Location: The rural boroughs of Ankarimbelo, Kalafotsy, Morateza, Antanakambana and Ifanirea in the Ikongo district, Fianarantsoa province.
Distance to nearest road: These rural boroughs are very very isolated … (some are 350km by road to Fianarantsoa.)

Installation of a ‘Single Side Band’ (SSB) short wave radio in the Feedback Madagascar – Ny Tanintsika regional office for improved communication with remote project areas

Appeal: £3,300
Description: We desperately need to improve communication between the Feedback Madagascar/Ny Tanintsika regional office and project sites, in order to improve project effectiveness and also to provide remote project areas with a rapid means of communication to the regional capital. Most of our project sites already have SSB radios which can be communicated with if we have one in the office.
Population to benefit: Indirectly and directly, thousands!
Location: Fianarantsoa
Distance to nearest road: 0