5 Days in Madagascar | World's Poorest Island

Behind me is a container, like a shipping container. People live in them. They've built houses inside of the cargo.

Madagascar is the world's poorest island where 80% of its residents earn less than $2 per day. As you walk around, the reality hits fast.

The water that they're using to wash is this river. And I can't imagine that the river is clean. Power cuts, no running water, and families surviving on almost nothing.

I'm on a mission with my wife Deanna to explore deep inside the culture and find out why this country stays trapped in poverty.

We are meeting up with our local friend Parfait and we're heading straight into the bustling market. Okay, so I'm going to hold onto my bag like this.

Hold on your bag. So then if somebody unzips it from the back... Hold on your camera, your phone. What is the biggest struggle for the people that live in the city?

Like, obviously, I can see there's a lot of poverty. People are hustling, they have their shops. But like what is the struggle?

The main struggle in uh, in Tana, in the city for example, is the electricity outage. Because we can have up to five hours a day of electricity outage.

Per day? Every day? Yeah, every 24 hours. Five hours every day the whole city shuts off? Yeah, the whole city, or part of the city.

Or maybe, for the morning, the eastern part by the afternoon. For other parts of the city, for example, this morning uh, it was cut two hours and then when I left home to go to the airport, it already cut for other two hours.

And then for the water. Water is other history in Tana because the water supply has difficulties. We don't have water by daytime.

You only have water, around 10pm to 5 5 am. No run, running water? What if you need the toilet or shower?