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Mental Health in Madagascar: Breaking the Silence
Borgen Magazine
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September 13, 2025
LONDON, United Kingdom — Mental health in Madagascar has long been absent from public discourse, overshadowed by entrenched stigma, endemic poverty and an underfunded health care system. Yet, recent years have shed light both on the extent of the...
Peace requires a ‘different narrative’ world’s top church leaders urge
OSV News
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September 12, 2025
GNIEZNO, Poland (OSV News) — At a major peace summit in Poland, church leaders from around the globe urged Christians to be bold in building peace amid wars in Ukraine, the Holy Land, Africa and beyond. Apologizing for his personal absence at the...
“Being on Mercy Ships completely transformed me”: One of Three U.S. Catholic Nursing Students on Madagascar Experience
ACI Africa
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September 11, 2025
“We hope students leave with a transformed understanding of what health care can be when delivered with compassion and cultural humility, seeing how healing encompasses dignity and hope far beyond clinical procedures alone,” Peterson said. Dike, a...
Catholic nursing students live faith on hospital ship in Madagascar
Catholic News Agency
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September 11, 2025
CNA Staff, Sep 11, 2025 / 06:00 am Three nursing students from a Catholic liberal arts school in North Carolina spent two weeks on a hospital ship in Madagascar this summer. Emma Harris, who will graduate from Belmont Abbey College in Charlotte in...
China's Austronesian culture-themed museum receives first batch of relics
Global Times
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Keqiutou Site MuseumFeaturing artifacts that showcase the cultural and lifestyle heritage of Austronesian-speaking peoples, the Keqiutou Site Museum in Pingtan, East China's Fujian Province, recently added a total of 103 relics to its collection....
Nearly 80 million more children benefit from school meals, WFP says
Africanews
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September 11, 2025
Nearly 80 million more children worldwide are now receiving school meals through government-led programmes, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. This is a 20% increase compared to 2020, bringing the global total to at least 466...
The Pope Just Blessed This BMW Motorcycle for a Children’s Charity Auction
RideApart
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September 11, 2025
"The Pope" and "a specially modified BMW R 18" are two things I never imagined being in the same sentence, but here we are, and it's all for the good of the children. Earlier this month, the pope was presented with a modified BMW R 18...
Africa feeding 20 million more children with school meals: WFP
SABC News
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September 11, 2025
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa have provided school meals to roughly 20 million extra children over the past two years, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday, showing a move away from dependence on foreign aid and a stronger...
Kids Culture 09.11.25
The East Hampton Star - New York
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Drip Painting in the Garden The pollinator garden at the East Hampton Town Hall campus will be the inspiration for a drip-painting workshop with Joyce Raimondo on Saturday at 11 a.m. The free workshop is open to children 5 and up accompanied by an...
Population of Children under School Feeding Programmes Reaches 466 Million Worldwide
This Day
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September 11, 2025
•Growth fastest in School Meals Coalition, where Nigeria is member •Low income countries record 60% increase in number of benefiting children Ndubuisi Francis in Abuja A new report has revealed that school meals programmes are the largest social...
Africa feeding 20 million more children with school meals, says World Food Programme
Hindustan Times
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September 10, 2025
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa have provided school meals to roughly 20 million extra children over the past two years, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday, showing a move away from dependence on foreign aid and a stronger...
Women producers’ dialogue series: gender-transformative approaches and services
International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED)
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The event started with a presentation of a widely used and documented methodology for gender-transformative approaches: Gender Action Learning Systems (GALS)(PDF). Two women leaders of FFPOs then shared experiences highlighting how FFPOs can...
Africa feeding 20 million more children with school meals, WFP says
The Malaysian Star
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September 10, 2025
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Governments in sub-Saharan Africa have provided school meals to roughly 20 million extra children over the past two years, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday, showing a move away from dependence on foreign aid...
WFP report: 20 million more children in Sub-Saharan Africa now receive government-led school meals
World Food Programme
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DAKAR/JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI: Twenty million more children in Sub-Saharan Africa are now receiving school meals through government-led programmes than in 2022, according to the latest edition of the State of School Feeding Worldwide, a flagship...
WFP report finds 80 million more children now supported by national school meal programmes worldwide
World Food Programme
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Photo: WFP/Alexis Masciarelli. students aged 5 to 7 eat a hot meal in their classroom in the primary school Baptiste Salem in Dondon, where 600 children are registered. Meals are preparing daily with rice and beans food purchased from local...
Madagascar : ce que le drame d'Ambohimalaza révèle sur la gestion de l’information publique
The Conversation
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September 3, 2025
En juin 2025 Madagascar a fait face à une crise sanitaire dramatique. Une trentaine jeunes ont perdu la vie après un événement festif à Ambohimalaza, une commune rurale située à 15 km à l'est de la capitale Antananarivo. Les autorités évoquent un...
Madagascar welcomes home skulls of Indigenous warriors taken by French colonial troops 128 years ago
Associated Press
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September 2, 2025
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar on Tuesday received three skulls of Indigenous warriors returned from France, including one believed to be of a king killed by French troops 128 years ago. It’s the first use of a 2023 French law...
Madagascar officially receives colonial-era relics from France
Xinhua News Agency
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ANTANANARIVO, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- An official ceremony was held on Tuesday in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, to welcome the colonial-era relics returned by France. Three skulls of the Sakalava ethnic group, one of which is believed to...
Madagascar receives three colonial-era human skulls from France
KFGO - North Dakota
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September 2, 2025
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) -Madagascar ceremonially received three colonial-era skulls from France on Tuesday, 128 years after they were taken from the Indian Ocean nation, including one believed to be that of a Malagasy king beheaded by French...
Madagascar receives skull of beheaded king returned by France
Modern Ghana
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Madagascar held a ceremony Tuesday marking the return of three skulls kept by France for 128 years, including one believed to be that of a Malagasy king decapitated by French troops in the 19th century. France handed over the skulls in Paris on...