Emergency Relief Fund
The issues
The cost of medical and health care in Madagascar is out of reach for the majority of the population as over 75% of the population live in extreme poverty, on less than $1.90 a day. Even the fees charged by government hospitals are too much for most. Therefore, people with health issues rarely seek medical treatment, which more often than not, leads to dire consequences.
Moreover, the burden of debt caused by unaffordable medical expenses has forced many children to have to leave school to find work to repay the debt. In other tragic cases, a family breadwinner has died despite their medical treatment, leaving the family with a huge debt.
Thrive Madagascar’s solution
Thrive Madagascar has started an EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND to help its staff, the children in our care and others we encounter who are in desperate need of medical attention. In many cases, the people that we help get dangerously ill from treatable illnesses when they don’t seek medical treatment and develop serious complications.
Thrive Madagascar’s EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND aims to help those in the direst need after checking the merits of their situation. While we believe that every life is worth saving, in Madagascar at present, this is an impossible task. We put criteria in place to prioritize those who need our help the most and where lives can truly be saved. We have helped pay medical bills of people whose conditions would have worsened or would have otherwise remained untreated and eventually led to death.
Your help is needed
Unfortunately, health care is still a luxury for many people in Madagascar. You can help save or improve someone’s life, and prevent children being denied education through medical debt. Your donation can help make a difference where lives are truly at stake.
You can help a single mother stop agonizing over whether to feed the family or get medical attention for the one child.
You may donate whenever we put out a call for specific help on our social media accounts (click social media icons at the top right hand corner of this page), make monthly or one-off cash donations. As well as funding specific cases, we want to build a reserve of funds available for emergencies and ongoing treatment needs.