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Friends of Mandritsara (a UK charity) supports the Good News Hospital in and around the district of Mandritsara in Northern Madagascar

Friends of Mandritsara support the Good News Project in the town and district of Mandritsara in Madagascar. The project is jointly run with the Association of Bible Baptist Churches of Madagascar and includes: the Good News Hospital, the Good News School and the Voice of the Good News radio station, as well as a nursing school. The aim is to meet both the medical and spiritual needs to the distric

t, through medical and surgical services and a Community Health team, as well as daily Bible talks in the hospital wards and to the outpatients. Despite its remote location (six hours drive from the main road) it is a centre of excellence for club foot and va**na fistula surgery. The ophthalmology team also make trips to other parts of the island to perform cataract operations and dispense glasses.

03/06/2026

Latest Update - The Good News Hospital needs Surgeons – please PRAY from Ted Watts

Today we are asking for you to pray for something very specific. Something
which Jesus Himself asked the disciples to pray about.

Today we are asking for you to pray for something very specific. Something which Jesus Himself asked the disciples to pray about.

01/05/2026

Latest Update - THE STORY OF BAKO’S LANGUAGE-LEARNING WEBSITE from Friends of Mandritsara Trust

Bako Rajaona is one of the longest-serving workers in the Mandritsara Good
News Project….I am Malagasy, I speak Malagasy, but I don’t know how to
teach, even if it’s teaching Malagasy.

Bako Rajaona is one of the longest-serving workers in the Mandritsara Good News Project….I am Malagasy, I speak Malagasy, but I don’t know how to teach, even if it’s teaching Malagasy.

05/04/2026

Latest Update - The story of the Good News Hospital Laboratory from Friends of Mandritsara Trust

How important is the laboratory to the work of the Good News Hospital in
Mandritsara? The answer is that the laboratory has a vital role to play:

How important is the laboratory to the work of the Good News Hospital in Mandritsara? The answer is that the laboratory has a vital role to play:

05/03/2026

Latest Update - THE CHALLENGES OF BEING A CHRISTIAN IN A SMALL VILLAGE from Hilde Vlaminckx

Three generations ago, around the end of the 19th century, the grandfather
of Kotomalala, who was the founder and leader of the Bible Baptist Church
in Beangezoka, came from Africa to Madagascar as a slave. He was probably
still a teenager. He was well treated by his master who was a pastor in a
Lutheran church. Slavery was officially banned in 1877,

Three generations ago, around the end of the 19th century, the grandfather of Kotomalala, who was the founder and leader of the Bible Baptist Church in Beangezoka, came from Africa to Madagascar as a slave. He was probably still a teenager. He was well treated by his master who was a pastor in a Lut

17/02/2026

Latest Update - AN URGENT CALL TO PRAYER FOR MADAGASCAR from Ted Watts

A week has passed since Cyclone Gezani tore through Tamatave… Tamatave will
rebuild. It will take time. But the Church there is standing — not because
its walls are intact, but because its foundation is secure.

A week has passed since Cyclone Gezani tore through Tamatave… Tamatave will rebuild. It will take time. But the Church there is standing — not because its walls are intact, but because its foundation is secure.

15/02/2026

Latest Update - Like a Baby Tenrec from Julian Hardyman

A baby tenrec out for a walk - endearing but a picture of both
vulnerability and potential. How it needs both nurture and protection. Many
of the churches in our region are similar. Young, vulnerable but full of
the potential that comes with the presence of the Holy Spirit making real
the Word of God.

A baby tenrec out for a walk - endearing but a picture of both vulnerability and potential. How it needs both nurture and protection. Many of the churches in our region are similar. Young, vulnerable but full of the potential that comes with the presence of the Holy Spirit making real the Word of Go

03/02/2026

Latest Update - Marco, Mangoes and the Mangarahara River from Ted Watts

At the moment, it is mango season in Mandritsara. The mango trees are heavy
with fruit. The ground beneath them is covered with fallen mangoes, some
already rotting, swarmed over by wasps. The fruit is everywhere.

At the moment, it is mango season in Mandritsara. The mango trees are heavy with fruit. The ground beneath them is covered with fallen mangoes, some already rotting, swarmed over by wasps. The fruit is everywhere.

15/01/2026

Latest Update - A MISSIONARY FAMILY’S HOPES FOR THE NEW YEAR from Brendan Petersen

We have been living in Mandritsara for just over 4 years now and it has
been a life- changing experience for all of us. It is a life full of
richness and experience unlike anything else

We have been living in Mandritsara for just over 4 years now and it has been a life- changing experience for all of us. It is a life full of richness and experience unlike anything else

01/01/2026

Latest Update - THE GOOD NEWS HOSPITAL CELEBRATES 30 YEARS AND THE NEW VOICE OF THE GOOD NEWS RADIO STATION STUDIO IS OPENED from Tamsin Booth

Friday 21st November was the long-awaited date for the 30th Anniversary
celebrations for The Good News Hospital.

And what a celebration it was! – a recognition of God’s mighty power,
provision, grace and glory.

Friday 21st November was the long-awaited date for the 30th Anniversary celebrations for The Good News Hospital. And what a celebration it was! – a recognition of God’s mighty power, provision, grace and glory.

06/12/2025

Latest Update - LEARNING TO TRUST GOD IN MANDRITSARA from Ted Watts

We were going to be the only family left on the compound. Our children
would be the only children on site. And I would be the only surgeon.

We were going to be the only family left on the compound. Our children would be the only children on site. And I would be the only surgeon.

Address

Hopitaly Vaovao Mahafaly
Mandritsara
415

Website

https://mandritsara.org.uk/

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