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| Established | 1959 |
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| Type | Nonprofit |
| Purpose | social work, development aid, humanitarian aid |
| Headquarters | Lot IV G, 199 Antanimena [1] |
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| Origins | Catholic Social Teaching [2] |
Region served | Madagascar |
| Affiliations | Caritas Africa, Caritas Internationalis |
| Website | caritasmadagascar |
Caritas Madagascar is a Catholic development and relief agency in Madagascar, established 1959. It is a member of the global Caritas Internationalis confederation, as well as of Caritas Africa.
In 1947, one year after its own creation, the French Secours catholique opened an antenna in what was then French Madagascar. A year after the declaration of the Malagasy Republic, in 1959, the country was affected by large-scale floods after which the antenna of Secours catholique became Vonjy Aina Katolika, the organisation currently known as Caritas Madagascar. [1] [3]
In 1970, the Episcopal Conference of Madagascar founded another structure, the Bureau de liaison pour les actions sociales et caritatives ("Liaison Office for Social and Charitable Actions"; BLASC) to be in charge of development programmes. However, it merged with Caritas in 1977. The organisation was restructured several times and registered as an NGO in 2014. [4]
Caritas Madagascar has a presence in the entire country through its local structures. A national office based in the capital of Antananarivo is coordinating and supporting a network of 22 diocesan Caritas structures, which in turn coordinate the work of multiple parish Caritas organisations.
The diocesan Caritas organisations are:
Some of the main areas in which Caritas Madagascar are active is agricultural development and production, healthcare and WASH. [3] [5] In addition to these development programmes, the organisation also implements basic social welfare activities, by for example providing food supplies to those most in need, and acts as relief actor after natural disasters such as cyclones, floods, or droughts, providing humanitarian aid and post-emergency rehabilitation. [6] [7] [8]
To implement this work, Caritas Madagascar collaborates with different national ministries, as well as with a range of international partners, including the World Bank, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and multiple NGO partners. [5]
The national office of Caritas Madagascar is also involved in advocacy activities towards local and national authorities. [9] [10]
Intense Tropical Cyclone Indlala was a powerful tropical cyclone that struck northeastern Madagascar in March 2007. The ninth named storm and fifth intense tropical cyclone of the 2006–07 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Indlala developed on 3 March 2007 southwest of the Chagos archipelago in the central Indian Ocean. Initially a tropical disturbance, Indlala moved generally westward in its formative stages, attaining tropical cyclone status on 13 March. A day later, the Météo-France office on Réunion (MFR) estimated peak 10–minute sustained winds of 175 km/h (110 mph), although the American-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center estimated stronger 1–minute winds of 220 km/h (135 mph). Early on 15 March, the cyclone made landfall in northeastern Madagascar on the Masoala Peninsula near Antalaha, still at its peak intensity according to the MFR. Indlala rapidly weakened over land and turned southward, eventually re-emerging into the Indian Ocean on 18 March; it was last noted by the MFR on 19 March.
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