The PROSPERER project has been operational in Madagascar for 14 years. Farmers, young people, artisans and various businesses involved in rural production have benefited from this support. The project ended in June 2008 with a workshop at Colbert Antaninarenina...

The results of the PROSPERER or FANOITRA project have been positive during its 14 years of work in promoting rural entrepreneurship, in food production and in creating jobs for young people. said the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Ramilison Harifidy, when he officially closed the PROSPERER project on May 3, 2022.

Small rural enterprises involving more than 60,000 farmers have been created. 300,000 people have directly benefited from it. The project also trained young farmers numbering 6,600. The project also collaborated with the private sector. The company has raised up to $35.5 million, in partnership with peasant producers.
21 sectors were supported. The benefits of PROSPER's work will be long-lasting, inherited, even if the project is completed, said Minister Ramilison Harifidy; the beneficiaries were trained in the management of their activity.

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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, You who have come in such large numbers to take part in this national pilgrimage, as well as all of you who are following it from home through the media. We, the bishops of Madagascar, would like to express our deep gratitude to you for having responded to our invitation and for having brought this jubilee initiated by Pope Francis to life spiritually. With you, we take up Mary's song: ‘My soul exalts the Lord’ and we repeat with her: ‘What shall I repay the Lord for all the good he has done me?’....

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