October 20th 

Emergency prayer request please for our latest little baby... 6 days old, his mum died during the birth. He has terrible diarrhea, is really dehydrated, struggling to breath, we took him to hospital tonight, he's in ITU, he is on oxygen, IV antibiotics, really struggling poor little lamb.... please please fight for him with us...  he is supposed to live and grow up to be an amazing little person.

 

Thank you for your prayers Evie is improving in leaps & bounds!! 

August 31st 

 

 

27th August 2011

Please pray for our latest little miracle baby Evie. Evie is 3 weeks old and sick with an infection, sadly her mum died yesterday morning. We are sleeping in the children's hospital in Tana where she is receiving medication and getting better but please pray that she does well!!

 

The Ever Growing Family

June 2011

 

 

The Family

April 2011

 

Newest Family Member - Mika

May 2011

 

 Read about Mika's tough start to life in Caroline's latest blog.

New House

February 2011

 The children have now moved into this second home which has formal government approval as registered children's centre to house up to 50 children.

Merry Christmas from Iris Madagascar

Welcome to our new family members

December 2010

      

Siblings Michel, Sansia & Ravaka

  

Congratulations to Patty & Julio who have had a healthy baby girl.

28th November 2010

The Boys start school....

November 2010

...one week ago they were living on the street.

 

Tiana and Fifi

November 5th

We have our first kids here! Two lovely boys who were sleeping on the streets and aren't able to return to live with their families.....they are SO happy to be HOME!!!!

 

TEAM IRIS MADAGASCAR!!!!

October 2010

Welcome to Patty & Julio's, check out their story under 'The Team'.

 

 Latest Update & A Lovely Story

September 2010 

Exciting news, we are now having about 40 kids to lunch every week day!! Some are street kids & some are really poor kids from our area who's families can't afford to feed them. It's a lot of fun!

We decided to hire someone to cook lunch for the kids, and met this lovely lady Clarisse begging on the street in town. She was really pregnant and had a 2 year old, I asked her if she wanted to come back and work for us and she accepted. She has cooked lunch for the kids every day since then, she's great! She had a lovely baby boy about 2 weeks ago and just brings him along with her. She lives in a little house but was begging as she couldn't afford to pay rent, so we are paying her rent in exchange for her cooking lunch for the kids. 

She had a talk with Rachel about God last week and accepted Jesus! 

The other day I was looking at my photos from 2008, when I went to Madagascar after mission school. I went to Madagascar to see what it was really like on the streets there? Well I found this picture of her! Yes Clarisse from 2008! She's on the streets in the middle of the night, begging and looking so totally miserable, holding a small baby. 

Now that little baby is her 2 year old who is happy and lovely and she looks like a totally different woman! Isn't that awesome! And I had no idea when we hired her that I'd met her before. It's like God has totally picked her out and He's so in love with her!! It's so incredible to see!

2008

2010

 

IRIS MADAGASCAR HAS NGO STATUS!!!!

August 2010

Caroline and Rachel are now in Madagascar and have NGO status!!!

Time to put their plans into actions.

 

So far they have rented a house, welcomed a local couple to the team and each day they have a group of street kids to lunch and story time.

 

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 "Tranon'ny Harena Sarobidy"

February 2009 

The plan for Iris Madagascar is to build a Baby House called Tranon'ny Harena Sarobidy (House of the Precious Treasure). It will take in abandoned babies, orphans and also begin to take in street children and homeless families. They will be given a loving home and raised to know what precious treasures they really are, each one unique and with a special purpose in life.

Iris Madagascar is an Iris base which is currently in the early stages of development and will be the first base in Madagascar. Madagascar is an extremely beautiful island about 400km (250 miles) off the coast of Mozambique. It has an abundance of unique wildlife and plants, and many beautiful sights including rainforest, coast and mountains. Madagascar is also one of the poorest countries in the world, and is currently undergoing a political crisis. At the moment (according to the world banks), it is ranked as one of the poorest countries in the world. The population is 20 million and 85% of that population live on less than $2 a day. Sadly 1:10 children die before they reach 5 years old.

At the moment Caroline is setting up the project from outside the country, sorting out the paper work for NGO status in Madagascar, raising funds and putting together a team. She hopes to be in Madagascar sometime in 2010.