The day started like any other. But before the morning meeting in the surgery department at Hopitaly Vaovao Mahafaly could begin, a sense of urgency arose. A critical emergency was underway:
A life saved – A Helicopter Mission to Belalona
GOOD NEWS FOR THE POOR
There is no National Health Service in Madagascar. Services are not free for patients at government or private hospitals. So how do the poor cope, given that the vast majority of the population are poor, or very poor?
Reaching the “Regions Beyond” Mandritsara - The story of Mananara
It is a hard place to get to, and is separated from Mandritsara by an escarpment covered by dense rain forest and several rivers. There is no road from Mandritsara – if you wanted to drive, it would be almost a thousand miles, travelling through Antananarivo, and the last 70 miles is one of the worst roads in Madagascar (and that is saying something!) Other options are boat or plane
A Return to Mandritsara
So, what have I discovered since I was last working here in 2019?...There has been a huge expansion in the Good News Hospital facilities.
VISITING THE GOOD NEWS HOSPITAL AND PROJECT
‘David Mann has just come back from Madagascar. Pray for the AEF council as they meet to decide whether it is God’s will that the Mann family and others go to Madagascar to start an evangelistic medical work in the town of Mandritsara, working with the Association of Bible Baptist Churches.’
AT HOME, THOUGH FAR FROM HOME
I found myself staring at the empty baggage carousel on my own at nearly midnight in Ivato airport, Antananarivo, Madagascar, my bags still stranded somewhere in Paris! It’s difficult to put into words the “out of my depth” feeling that struck me in that moment as I stood there alone and very far from home churning over a multitude of questions in my head
A Lass from Down Under - by Jennifer Langford
How does a twenty-something year-old lass from the Land Down Under end up in Northern Madagascar to teach missionary children? Good question! The short answer is by just a few aeroplane flights!
A patient’s journey to Mandritsara
Mananara is a town on the coast, there is no road and the journey takes 4 days on foot in the dry season. The walk began before sunrise after finishing last minute packing late the night before.
COPING WITH DEATH AT THE GOOD NEWS HOSPITAL
Death is an ever-present adversary in Mandritsara... Life is precious. Life is beautiful. It’s worth the fight. We don’t give up...
Seeing – the way forward in Mandritsara
Around 500 people have had their sight restored each year… there are only 25 eye surgeons in the whole of Madagascar, which has a population of 30 million.