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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
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.
‘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.’
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
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!
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.
Death is an ever-present adversary in Mandritsara... Life is precious. Life is beautiful. It’s worth the fight. We don’t give up...
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.
The Mandritsara district covers about 10,500 sq kms. That is about three times as big as the county of Kent in SE England, or half the size of Wales. Over 90% of these people live…
The walls are now complete and the roof is being installed. It is still expected that the expanded maternity unit will be fully operational by…
