Health
4. Social and Community Development
5. Agriculture
(all the photos are taken by the MRHD) A - Objective:
MRHD’s objective is to provide the Malagasy population with solid and lasting foundations necessary for their personal development.
- Illuminate Madagascar
- Promotion of education
- Providing a future for the most vulnerable children
- Improving maternal and child health
- Strengthen
ing health systems and proposing sustainable solutions
- Supporting the population in difficulty
- Supporting family and peasant farming
B - Mission:
Promote sustainable development in Madagascar (solar energy, education, training, assistance, health and agriculture) through the strengthening of the self-development capacities of disadvantaged communities and social groups
1/- Participate in the lighting of Madagascar through decentralized, rural electrification projects in response to the needs of the populations, and contribute to the advent of a sober and efficient society, based on renewable energies. Thanks to photovoltaic panels and a distillation unit of thermal panels, Solar energy makes it possible to operate a reverse osmosis unit.
2/- Inform, educate and advise people in their communities in order to promote the schooling of children, especially girls in rural areas.
3/- Improve the quality of both maternal and child care.
4/- Saving lives through better prevention and care; and to improve the quality of life of people affected with this chronic disease (Cancer, Diabetes, Kidney disease and Cardiovascular diseases)
5/- Educate and Encourage people to improve their current hygiene via water and sanitation to improve their quality of life
6/- Contribute to developing a healthier well-being by improving the living environment through equitable access to basic social services of local communities (i.e., health, education, and drinking water); e.g., rational management and shared governance of natural resources.
7/- To better support the most vulnerable, MRHD strives to emphasize developing baseline knowledge through education of the basic needs such as health, education, agriculture and handicrafts.
8/- Regarding agriculture and food, MRHD feels it’s vitally necessary to strengthening family farms, as they allow a more egalitarian rural development while responding better to future social and environmental challenges.
*** Our teams accompany and support the implementation and management of projects/programs. In this way, we are participating in economic growth while reducing the effects of climate change.
*** Our expertise in Finance and Management, positions us as a true manager of “impact funds” for donors wishing to help Madagascar. C/- What we do
1/- Renewable energy :
- Currently, electricity supply is insufficient to meet the projected growth demand. Malagasy electricity capacity is 50% dominated by thermal energy sources of heavy fuel oil and diesel fuel, often resulting in price fluctuations and thereby rising prices. Ultimately, the environmental and health consequences are harmful. Electrification distribution / usage rates are: National: 15%, Urban: 54%, Rural: 6%
- To help counter this, the NGO Madagascar Royal House of David – MRHD:
a/- Contributes to the electrification of Madagascar in a more sustainable and economical way by using the first of the renewable materials, a natural abundance of solar energy.
• The country enjoys privileged sunshine
• A green solution for Madagascar
• A solution adapted to reality (off-grid and on a large scale)
• A revolutionary solar power plant will be installed that helps more people every day. b/- Participates in the electrification of isolated sites, thanks to solar photovoltaic energy
c/- Integrates a program that each installation is composed of a solar panel, two lamps and a cable for the daily charging of a cell phone. This program is made for development in villages in Madagascar that do not have access to electricity, in order to deploy sustainable access facilities to light. Solar energy is competitive, which makes it attractive against thermal solutions.
• This program lends to another major benefit for those less-fortunate…a solution for the unbanked. Having access to a cell phone will allow the ability to financially operate in funds distribution through current and future financial technologies.
1. Crypto/digital currencies are coming and along with this, the ability of the unbanked to be equally included i.e., VERY CHEAP and decentralized finance - no more exclusion from big finance and the wealthy. Individuals can now be their own bank, access to immediate money and micro-loans.
2. One or two taps on the phone and the recipient with a phone in a faraway village has immediate money. And it costs almost nothing to send. d/- Implements clean and sustainable electrification solutions, thus contributing to the reduction of CO2 emissions. This economic model is one of the innovative solutions to contribute to the fight against climate change
e/- Installation of solar panels at MRHD centers. Solar panels of sufficient capacity to power vital equipment for hours
2/- Education – Training :
- Education is recognized as one of the most powerful levers to get out of poverty. This is why the NGO Madagascar Royal House of David contributes to education in Madagascar
- Family poverty (lack of means to pay school fees and the need to make children work), remoteness from school, lack of qualified teachers, lack of equipment, natural disasters... all these elements deprive Malagasy of a quality education. However, the education of children, and adults, is an essential and critical developmental building block. a/- School and Community Activities Project
b/- Delivery of school supplies
c/- Sponsorship of destitute children
- In order to guarantee a future and sustainable education for children in Madagascar, some of whom are orphans, MRHD will help these children in the form of sponsorship by purchasing school supplies, food, paying their school fees, health fees as well as the child's clothing.
- Reintegration of street children into school. schooling of children from primary school to high school, then assistance in the schooling of young people
- MRHD has a global approach to the problems of dropping out of school and ill-treatment of orphaned children after the death of their parents
- MRHD will also strive to help the graduates with some form of work placement or ideas from their education. We believe that during their education, ideas will be created then formed, to contribute to further building and making positive changes to communities. d/- Training:
MRHD organizes, trains and supports people in their economic and social projects. There are various trainings in Madagascar in order to sensitize this population on different areas such as:
• Green entrepreneurship and modern agriculture
• Self-entrepreneurship
• Project development
• Craftsmanship (bakery, sewing, carpentry, various repair work, minor health care / first aid certifications, etc.…)
• Project management
3/- Health :
Build infrastructure and give better access to quality health care and services to the most disadvantaged populations. A sustainable change in health in Madagascar and creative and necessary projects carried out in partnership with local health authorities. The NGO Madagascar Royal House of David - MRHD:
- aims to help countries improve the quality of care with its hospitals
- provides medical assistance in equipment and medicines
- improves the quality of maternal, newborn and child health care
a/- Health care:
• Achieve better health care prices
• Improving quality care is essential to keep mothers and their children alive and healthy and helps prevent many of these deaths of women during pregnancy or childbirth
• medical consultations to help the most vulnerable Malagasy communities and also the most isolated rural areas
• The costs of medical repatriations for severe cases in rural areas are being addressed
• Public health programs (mother and child): maternal, newborn and child health
b/- Specific diseases:
• We are responding to the lack of access to care for people with specific diseases: diabetes, cancer, kidney disease and cardiovascular diseases. We believe our plans and aspirations to improve health care through hygiene, sanitation, nutrition and good water can also foster reducing the incidences of these diseases.
• Diabetes: too many fail to take account of this health emergency. Decentralization of care, access to medicines, patient education and diabetes prevention
• Cancer: we can take a global and impartial look at the situation, identify priorities and effective actions to be implemented. Many live with cancer and the NGO is there to support and treat them
• Kidney disease: accessing dialysis treatment is difficult and very expensive. Kidney failure is now a public health problem. People of all ages, from all social strata and from all professions are affected.
• Cardiovascular diseases: the leading cause of death in the world. More than three quarters of cardiovascular-related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. People suffering from cardiovascular disease or at high risk of cardiovascular disease require early detection and management including psychological support and medications, as needed. c/- Employment and Training:
• Increase income from the medical sector, which will result in an increase in employment
• Training of health workers to improve coverage of health needs, including qualified human resources in the most remote rural communities
4/- Social and Community Development :
The NGO supports sustainable improvement of access to drinking water, hygiene and sanitation
a/- Support for access to drinking water and sanitation :
• A third of the population still does not have access to drinking water. Many people in Madagascar face a daily struggle just to find water to drink. In the south, rural communities lack water to farm their land
• drinking water must meet two criteria: be accessible on site and be available
• Installation of solar powered water pumps
*** The NGO will help rural communities by installing water pumps in their vegetable garden that run on solar energy. They can now enjoy sustainable farming, earn money and feed their families
b/- Provision of food assistance :
• Help in rural and school settings against undernourishment and malnutrition
• Helping people in distressed regions, saving lives of people affected by the drought crisis for example
• Actively contributes to improving the food and nutrition situation of orphans and poor and vulnerable children
• Focus on developing productive assets that directly or indirectly enhance food security in targeted communities and manage natural resources in a sustainable manner
c/- Support for elderly and widows :
• We sponsor the elderly in fragile situations who are not able to pay for their housing
• They are housed in the centers because there are old people forgotten by their families, and they need support, communication, relaxation and attention
5/- Construction Plans for MRHD centers :
- First, an MRHD headquarter in the capital as a pilot project. Other locations to follow.
- Training centers and schools
- Hospitals for all
- An orphanage for children in difficulty, care for orphans and vulnerable children (locations TBD)
- Reception centers for disadvantaged young people
- Retirement centers for the elderly
6/- Agriculture :
- Madagascar is also one of the countries with the highest rice consumption per capita in the world (100-120 kg / person / year). Rice is classified as a “strategic” food.
- The rice sector is considered a “priority agricultural sector” and it’s location in the national economy is vitally important.
- Improvements in agriculture and agro-food sectors will also lead to increased incomes and job creation
a/- Support and construction of boreholes and rice production
- Provide training to producers in all areas of rice techniques
- Implement the rice sector development strategy; e.g., a structure & system dedicated to developing domestic production thereby reducing outside dependence. b/- Strengthening organic agriculture
- Technical training for farmers (individuals and groups)
- Promote economic and social development in rural areas through support for family farming and agro-food sectors
c/- Green entrepreneurship and modern agriculture-Objective
- Mastery of technical routes of seed production
- Capable of meeting the food needs of rural populations, using material means to increase rice production and other agricultural products
- Be capable of providing work to women while improving their working conditions and role in society
*** In cooperation with peasant communities, develop and implement an agricultural infrastructure; i.e., storage, warehouses, drying areas, etc. This is necessary for the conservation and valorization of production.
