Perhaps not everyone knows how poor Madagascar is. Not everyone knows that it is 1 ½ times the size of Italy, where a 50 kg sack of rice costs 30 euros, an average salary less than 150 euros, gasoline 1.30 per liter.......The infant mortality rate is 123 per thousand compared to 2.4 in Italy. Among the causes of infant mortality is the general health shortage that turns even trivial infections, treatable in other settings, into fatalities. Our bodies can defend themselves, adapting to the most extreme conditions with incredible resilience. But the basis of everything must be proper nutrition. 

In Madagascar the rate of chronic malnutrition is at 47 percent in children under the age of five, and the problem also affects young mothers. Paradoxically, in Madagascar you can enjoy fantastic and varied dishes, fish , meat and tasty vegetables and see the latest Toyota suv shining under splendid hotels......available to wealthy tourists.

Sister Claudine is on the front lines, no ifs or buts. Sustained by an unwavering Faith she organizes and concretely runs this orphanage with her sisters, she invents the unthinkable to feed nearly 100 children, but she cannot do it alone. The unexpected is always lurking and can be catastrophic in its banality, and you wonder in the end why it happened to them. 

We could go on and tell anecdotes to pity the reader for the purpose of raising some handouts, but that is not the goal. We want to help Sister Claudine not give up, because the results are obvious. A donation to this project is much more than a sack of rice; it is a tribute to those who dedicate their lives to others.