Are Malagasy poor?

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Can you believe that more than the 70% of the population from Madagascar are living under a critical POVERTY situation. To make easier to understand this information we must say that our country, Spain, has a poverty rate of  26.1%, making it the 7^th  poorest country in the European Union.

When we talk about poverty, we are refering to extreme poverty. The one that makes you starve like you have never had and that makes you have really bad days. If we, in our warm home with the heat on, don't have THAT specific dish or food we desire we could paint our lives like sad or even hard when these people, children and adults, are struggling to have their bread and don't even think about having the AC on, as it's a really hot country, or having the same home as us.

We need to keep in mind that Madagascar has about 26 million inhabitants, while Spain has 47 million.

With our collaboration with the NGO Proide we will be able to help build new schools in the poorest parts of this fantastic country.

To finish our weekly entry, we want to say that we need to appreciate what we currently have and understand that, a day in which  what you wanted hasn't happened, doesn't mean it was a bad day.

Is child exploitation a thing in Madagascar?

We've just read about something we suspected but this last research has confirmed it with some astonishing facts.

When we talk about Madagascar we always think about poverty and misery. We've discovered that Madagascar, as a country, lacks any of the rights we consider as essential and normal like the basic rights for children. Such as: 

Leaving aside the legality of the country, 82% of minors are poor, the country has child exploitation and the child marriages are permitted and legal.

We need to talk about prostitution, about illegal street prostitution, which as any other poor country is very easy to detect in the streets. We can comprare Madagascar to the well-known Thailand for the illegal prostitution.

We really need to focus on this whole topic as it could be what, as we talked in the last update.

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BIG problem for Madagascar

How are you all?

How have you been doing lately? We've been quite busy as we are searching as much information as we possibly can. I, personally, have found that some really important studies on which we base our daily jobs or life. A research that can actually define how many of your population is healthy or not is the HIV study which our government looks at to see how responsible is Spanish (young) population. This study, to us, may mean how resoponsible our society is but, to a country which its population it's mainly poor could lead to the multiple deaths of people that have AIDS. This would translate into a serious problem for the country's economy system, which could bring the region into a disaster. 

Even with these few studies, we can affirm that in 1993 only 0,9% of people living in Madagascar suffer from HIV. To compare it to something so you get a better vision of this we could say that the current number in Spain is 0,007% according to rtve.es. Keep in mind that we are comparing a "developed" first world country with an "undeveloped" third world country.

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