The Antananarivo branch built a shelter for volunteer crews in 2002. Crews of full-time doctors (10 in all) regularly visit and follow 12.000 children. Devastating hurricanes as well as epidemics such as cholera and endemic malaria periodically afflict the island.

Madagascar (15 million inhabitants) 44 % of the population are under 15 years old. Life expectation is about 55, and 85 % of the population lives under the level of poverty. The country is the twelfth poorest country in the world (yearly income of 268 Euros per person !). The country suffered 25 years of communist regime. It is only now starting to awaken after the major political turmoil, which lasted during most of 2002.

Year after year,
FRAMADON welcomes new benefactors and good will. In 2001 Elodie GOSSUIN, winner of Miss France and Miss EUROPE contests, supported the association. As a nurse trainee, she visited children and distributed medicine and food. She will never forget these children “whose primary occupation is surviving”.

Join us !

• Needs are huge and urgent
• Our means are small compared to the task
• Children are this faraway country’s future

Food and medicine :
12.000 children received
help thanks to your donations

The 10 doctors of the shelter
and the accompanying creuw.

In Paris, FRAMADON collects private donations and establishes long term partnerships with companies. What becomes of these donations is controlled to ensure transparency. Donated goods are regularly shipped by container. The association takes delivery of the goods and distributes them directly. The money collected is used locally to buy food and medicine.

Food distribution at the Andohatapenaka
welfare center in Antananarivo