Info on Madagascar, Malawi, & Mozambique
Madagascar
                   Official Name: Republic of Madagascar
 
                    Capital City: Antananarivo
 
                    Gained Independence From France on June 26th 1960
 
                    Location: 250 off the southeast coast of Africa
 
                    Nickname:  "The Forgotten Land"  and "The eighth contenant" 
                                                                                             
 
                    Forth Largest Island on Earth: 1000 miles long, 350 miles wide
 
                    Population: Est. 20-25 Million People
                       - Estimated to double within 15-20 years because over half
                          the population being under the age of 15
 
Islands around Madagascar in need of the gospel
   - Comoros Islands - 600,000 people
   - Seychelles Islands - 100,000 people
   - Mauritius Islands - 1.5 million people
   - Reunion Islands - 1 million people
 
Life Expectancy is 53 years
 
Has one of the highest rates of homeless children in the world per capita
 
Very poor- considered a fourth world country
   - 1 in 4 people have mental disorders because of lack of nourishment
 
       - consumes more rice per capita than any other country in the world
       - most third grade children can not read or write
       - less than 1% of homes have running water
       - less than 10% have electricity
       - less than 2% have indoor bathroom
       - less than 1% have a refrigerator
       - less than 6% have a telephone
       - poor health care, hospitals do not have nurses to care for patients
 
Money: Malagasy Ariary  $2100 Ariary = $1 American
 
Agriculture is the main occupation: rice, coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, beans,
                                                                  bananas, peanuts
 
                                      Language: Malagasy
                                        - Manao ahoana = Hello
                                        - Veloma = Good by
                                        - Misaotra anao = Thank You
                                        - Azafady= Please
                                        - Trano = House
                                        - Antsy = Knife
                                        - Mofodipaina = Bread
                                        - Trandro = Fish
                                        - Atody = Eggs
                                        - Siramamy = Sugar
                                        - Iray = 1
                                        - Roo = 2
                                        - Telo = 3
 
 
 
French is spoken in the bigger cities
English is spoken very little, but is more to be desired
 
Religion: Ancestral Worship, Witch Doctors, Catholicism, Mormon's, J.W.'s,
                Lutherans, Pentecostal Holiness
 
Island was inhabited around 500 B.C. by Indonesians, Indians and Africans
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Missionary to the World Gil Anger in Madagascar surveying the need for Christ in 2004......
Shouldn't everybody hear the gospel at least once, before someone hears it twice, three times or every week ??????
In America they complain about minimum wage.  Here a person has to work hard for 12 hours a day to possibly make $1.  They have no one to complain too.....
                          Malawi
 
 - One of the worlds poorest countries
 
 - Population: roughly 14 million
 
 - Life expectancy is about 40 yrs.
 
 - 7% of the population have electricity
 
 - 42% of the population are illiterate
 
 - 48% of children in Malawi are  
    malnourished
 
 - Over 200 people die of AIDS each day
 
 - average salary is less than $1 per day
 
 - language: Chichewa, English
                           Mozambique
 
 - Population: roughly 21 million
 
 - Language: Emakhuwa, Xichangana, Portuguese
 
 - Recieved independence on 25 June 1975
 
 - Capital city: Maputo
 
 - Mozambique was a Portuguese centre for the slave
     trade
 
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