Celebrating achievements and looking to a New Year

Savings and loans schemes are making business dreams a reality

Dear Friends,

Thank you all for your support and encouragement throughout this year. For too many of the people we work with in Madagascar it has been amongst the hardest. Horrors like famine, after last year’s cyclones and the world economic crash, made our work to improve people’s lives and protect the forest even more challenging than usual.

But we are pleased to reflect on many positives through the year and a brighter future ahead. Amongst this years achievements: 

• We built five new schools and reroofed another 21 

• We built two new health centres

• We drilled 45 boreholes bringing clean water to over 20,000 people

• We now feed over 100,000 children in 540 school canteens

• We trained teachers and sponsored the poorest pupils and students

• Our agro ecology programme is now in 91 schools 

• Students and communities planted 100,000 trees 

• 200 new businesses are up and running due to our savings and loans schemes 

• We are helping more and more communities to take their own forest in hand, patrolling and monitoring this precious resource and unique wildlife. 

Ankarinomby Secondary School, rebuilt to be cyclone proof

As we are now working with 540 villages around the forest we are growing as an organisation to meet the opportunities these community partnerships present. Our  income and expenditure has increased 250% in the last 4 years. We now have 250 staff in Madagascar. In the UK, we now have three staff to support and help fund the work in Madagascar. 

Ring-tailed Lemurs

In the face of the worsening climate crisis our local communities are more motivated than ever to adapt to more sustainable lifestyles and we are ever ready to support them as much as we can. Thank you to all those who have supported our Treemad Campaign. There is no limit to how many trees we can plant so for those still keen to help you can always donate here.

The Tapia ‘Silk’ Forest , home to the silk moths

I would like to thank our staff, partners, donors, and the communities we work with, and look forward to the opportunities that the new year holds. Together, we will continue to explore innovative solutions, celebrate the richness of Madagascar's biodiversity, and empower communities to be stewards of their own sustainable development.

Wishing you a very happy 2024. 

CEO, Jamie Spencer MBE