Map of Madagascar

Madagascar’s key feature drives from the geological events of its formation:
separated from Africa 165 million years ago, it resembles a small
continent in its own right, with unique flora and fauna.

Its environment conserves 90% of known species of lemur
and one quarter of all Africa’s flowering plants.
The real emergency in Madagascar is malnutrition,
increasing at a worrying rate, which kills 100,000 children
under 5 every year.

Tuberculosis, leprosy, malaria, hepatitis and bilharziasis are endemic,
further reducing life expectancy.

75% of the population lives below the poverty line,
in sickening contrast with the flourishing flora and fauna
of Madagascar’s natural environment.  

Madagascar’s shoreline with its beaches of the whitest sand	A spectacular sunset
Children weakened by under-nourishment	A family outside their shack at Tulear

A girl washing her hair	Street children	An under-nourished child