Missions of the Board

International Philanthropy & NGO

“Madagascar Foundation” is a Public Charity ( 501 (c) 3) and a nonprofit Foundation to encourage donations Worldwide, to provide emergency assistance to more people in distress, to welcome more people in new homes and villages, to bring education to more children and to reach forgotten territories on the island of Madagascar some time considered as the “eighth continent”.

“Madagascar Foundation” support Father Pedro’s Association “Akamasoa” whose name means ‘Good Friends’. The purpose of their action is to restore human dignity to the poorest living in the street and the rubbish dumps.

In 30 years, the Association has provided emergency assistance to more than 1.000,000 people in distress. We welcome 25,000, including 14,500 school children in 22 villages we have created. It was built more than 4,000 homes in brick, over 272 classrooms in new schools, clinics, stadiums in all villages … and provides a salary to more than 3,000 people (granite quarries, brick making, paving squares, streets and roads, masonry, carpentry, roofing, structural steel, mechanical, canteens, floral, cleaning, crafts, etc.) on multiple sites in Madagascar.

For several years already “Madagascar Foundation” is dedicated to a ship hospital project.

The name of this ship will be “Pedro I”. We will bring hope and healing to the forgotten poor. We want to mobilize people and resources around the world to rescue all people regardless of race, sex or religion on the East African coasts as well as on the coasts of the Middle East and the Indian Ocean.