St. Giles has had links with the Rev. Georges Ranaivo and the Anglican Church in Antananarivo, Madagascar since 1995. Madagascar is an island which covers an area the size of France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Rev. Georges is a non stipendiary priest working with some of the poorest people in Madagascar. In 1995 he was looking after two churches but the number has now increased to six. Although the 6th church has still to be built in 2007, Revd. Georges visits periodically as he does all six churches.

He is a great leader to his people, inspiring and encouraging them to work in the fields, planting fruit trees, rice, maize and other crops, which often are destroyed by cyclones, floods and locusts. At the same time cattle, churches, schools and houses are destroyed and so planting and building have to start again.

He visits schools which he has organized, encouraging pupils and teachers and distributing copy books, pens, chalks etc. As the parents are too poor to pay the teachers they give one part of their rice etc. at harvest time.

Malaria and disease are prevalent and Rev. Georges has studied traditional pharmacology in Antananarivo to obtain a degree to exercise a healing ministry using medicinal plants and massage and so to look after the health of his people and this is free to them. All this is in addition to his employment as a technician at the Cancer Institute in Antananarivo and his taking services at his six churches in rotation.

Over the years St. Giles has been providing financial help, which has been used for the purchase of chickens for eggs, fish to stock a pond, school books etc., a bicycle to facilitate some of his travel and a computer amongst other things.

In 2000 Rev. Georges visited England and St. Giles helped towards his air fare. Whilst in Killamarsh he visited church, schools and houses and his visit strengthened the link.

In 2006 the Malagasy Government awarded him "the National Order for the national adventure", thanks to the 20 years as a non stipendiary Anglican priest working freely in the impoverished countryside and his 30 years at the Cancer Institute.