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- All Photos by Colin Radford
The Stamping Studio in collaboration with HELP Madagascar
(Health, Education and Life-skills Projects)
Toamasina, Madagascar is proud to announce our new charity project SOS
(Stamping Out Suffering). It is our privilege
to contribute in a small way to aid those in need. This
project is near and dear to our hearts because my sister in-law (Kim
Baldwin-Radford) and brother in-law (Colin Radford) have lived in
Madagascar for 5 years and are the founders of HELP. They have
shared many heart-wrenching stories of people in need. In such
an impoverished country, a little goes a long way... we know our
support of on going projects and missions make a big difference. This
is why The Stamping Studio is donating ALL FUNDS generated from the
sale of SOS rubber stamp sets to HELP Madagascar! So
check out our exclusive line of SOS
rubber stamps and you too can HELP Stamp-Out-Suffering.
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The following are some photos
to introduce you to just some of the Malagasy people, animals and
HELP projects. |
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| Nella and Isidor would not be in school without HELP Madagascar. Like many of the students HELP sponsors, their parents are illiterate. |
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The future of Madagascar! Smiling faces reflect the mixed Indonesian and African roots of the Malagasy people. |
| HELP Madagascar assists poor mothers who need hospitalization during a complicated pregnancy. This baby was delivered prematurely when his mother contracted malaria. Mom and tiny son left the hospital healthy. |
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Since none of the women have electricity at their
homes, they are taught to sew both by hand and on a hand-cranked
sewing machine.
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Sewing and embroidery classes give poor women a means to make much-needed income.
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Leprosy has left Dety with no fingers and badly misshapen feet. Plaster casts are being made of her feet so that shoes - the first she has ever owned -- can be custom-made. The leather shoes cost $30 - more than one month's salary for most Malagasy. |
UPDATE! Dety got her
shoes!
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HELP Madagascar sponsors over 65 children to a local charity school, Enfants de Joie – Children of Joy.
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HELP Madagascar is assisting Enfants de Joie in building new classrooms as their enrollment increases. At least 200 students use this building, attending classes in shifts. Hanging tarps divide the space into three modest “classrooms.”
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Angelo gets physical therapy (paid for by HELP) |
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Madagascar is an island south of Africa. The
Malagasy people are a mixture of Asians and Africans, and have
been on Madagascar for 1500 to 2000 years.
Madagascar's forests are a shimmering, seething
mass of a trillion stems and dripping leaves and slithering,
jumping, quirky creatures out of nature's bag of tricks: lemurs,
periwinkles and baobabs, aloes, geckoes, sifakas and octopus
trees. Sadly, they are threatened by aggressive deforestation. |
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