Category: Hygiene and health
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In winter, the temperature is not constant, but variable, and this leads to health problems for people, especially the most vulnerable... The causes of health complications are wind, cold and humidity. When the body is cold, blood vessels contract, the energy required by the body increases and the blood becomes thicker. The digestive system is sluggish and dehydration can occur... The number of cold sufferers increases...

Category: Women empowerment
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Efforts will be made to help young women become mothers and mothers of families. Given the difficulties facing mothers today, it is worrying that girls are faced with becoming mothers later in life. If a young woman chooses to become a mother, she needs to know what's going on around reproduction and sexuality. Mothers are those who give birth and educate physically; the mother of the family is the one who educates the mind and heart, the soul, the whole human being.

Category: Hygiene and health
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May 31 is World No-Tobacco Day, when everyone is encouraged to stop smoking and stop buying cigarettes. The first cigarette was made by a beggar from Spain; cigars used to be chewed and then wrapped. Non-smokers, who are exposed to second-hand smoke in various places, can be affected by increasingly more serious illnesses than real smokers. It is possible to help people who want to stop smoking, both mentally and physically. The basics for quitting smoking: first, decide to stop smoking; second, stop buying; third, exercise breathing fresh air for 10 minutes every morning; fourth, clean your mouth, drink a glass of water every hour...

Category: Hirika
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The Réseau des Formateurs pour l'Agriculture et le Développement Rural à Madagascar, or FARMADA, is continuing the process of standardizing its member training centers. It helps training centers, trainers and farmers who offer training courses to take advantage of the certification they already possess, by proceeding with the process of validation of acquired experience, or the VAE of this system today.

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Message from the Bishops at the end of the Pilgrimage

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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Love and Salvation

Christmas is a great joy, because it is the love of God that has come to us, proclaims Fr. Bizimana Innocent, Provincial Superior of the Salesians Don Bosco of Madagascar and Mauritius, presenting his Christmas greetings. Salvation is accomplished, so life is not in danger of disappearing. It is this love and this salvation that we wish to fill our life so that we have peace.

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Zatti, our brother

The short film "Zatti, our brother" (Argentina, 2020) focuses on one of the most difficult episodes of his life. We are in Viedma, in 1941: at the age of 60, Zatti is forced to leave the hospital he has attended for decades. His faith and strength are tested.

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