Twelve‑year‑old Tenasoa, who has a disability, crawls to the mica mine every day to work. Her grandfather says, “If we don’t work, we don’t eat.” In the mica‑mining industry in the east of the country alone, around 10,000 children work in dangerous conditions.

Photo source: UN News / UNICEF, Madagascar child labour report.

of children lack access to education, nutrition or safe drinking water.

67% - 81%

of children live below the poverty line.

83%

of children survive on less than $1.90 a day.

82,9%

children die before the age of five.

62 out of every 1,000

newborns die before their first birthday

42.6 out of every 1,000

The situation of children in Madagascar is extremely dire.
Four out of five children grow up in poverty, and one in five lives in extreme deprivation

These are horrifying numbers. Children must be saved.

What drives children’s total poverty?

We believe children must live. Every child should have access to food, clean water, education and healthcare.

What are we doing to make this real?

We have opened a “School Under the Sky” – an open‑air primary school where the poorest children can learn, play and eat in safety. We also partner with other Malagasy organizations that rescue and support children, combining local knowledge and international resources to protect their future.