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    • Hydroponics Boosts Yields for Kenyan Farmers

      2025

      Organic soil enhancers drive harvest gains in Burkina Faso

      2025

      Crop Insurance Protects Families from Climate Impact

      2025
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Category Archive

Kenyan Women Using Facebook To Sell Garden Produce

Self Help Africa2024Case Studies, Enterprise Development, Kenya, News, Technology

Kenyan women farmers are using Facebook and other social media to sell their surplus garden produce

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How improving access to information helped these Gambian women transform their lives

Self Help Africa2022Agriculture & Nutrition, Case Studies, Climate Change, Gender, News, Stories, West Africa

Improving access to information is helping women in The Gambia to transform their lives.

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Combatting Gender Violence for Border Traders in Burundi

Self Help Africa2021Case Studies, Gender, News

Women traders in Burundi

A new initiative seeks to create safer conditions for women traders along Burundi’s borders.

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Joyce and Consolata – Stories From The Field

Self Help Africa2021Agriculture & Nutrition, Case Studies, Gender, Kenya, News, Uganda

Despite the many challenges created by Covid-19, Self Help Africa’s work with women like Consolata and Joyce remains steadfast – and with our support they have continued to produce and earn as family providers.

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Gorta Legacy in Kenya

Self Help Africa2019Agriculture & Nutrition, Case Studies, Featured, Kenya, News

The merger of Gorta and Self Help Africa in 2014 was inspired by the conviction that we could achieve more by working together. For decades, the two organisations had done similar work in similar locations. By teaming up, we believed that we could reduce costs, increase impact, and do more … Read More

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Enterprising roots!

Self Help Africa2019Case Studies, Enterprise Development, Kenya, News, Uncategorised

Business support is being provided to cassava enterprises in Kenya

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Improving School Meals in Zambia

Self Help Africa2019Agriculture & Nutrition, Case Studies, Featured, News, Uncategorised, Zambia

Self Help Africa’s new project aims to improve vegetable production and school meals for children in Zambia.

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Kenyan Cassava Boost

Self Help Africa2019Case Studies, Enterprise Development, Kenya, News, Uncategorised

Business support is being provided to cassava enterprises in Kenya

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Africa Women – The Engine for Ending Poverty

Self Help Africa2019Case Studies, Gender, News, Uncategorised

Celebrate women farmers, the engine of development across sub-Saharan Africa.

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A BETTER life for Alice

Self Help Africa2019Case Studies, Cooperatives, Enterprise Development, Featured, Malawi, News

Since joining a village savings and loans group (VSLA), Alice used a small loan to build a piggery and buy a breeding sow that soon provided her with five piglets that she could fatten and sell.

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latest news

Hydroponics Boosts Yields for Kenyan Farmers

2025

Organic soil enhancers drive harvest gains in Burkina Faso

2025

Crop Insurance Protects Families from Climate Impact

2025

Close to 200,000 farm families benefit from Kenya project

2025


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4th Floor, Joyce’s Court,
38 Talbot Street, Dublin 1.
D01 C861
Ireland
Tel. +353 (0)1 677 8880

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Self Help Africa
4th Floor, Joyce’s Court,
38 Talbot Street, Dublin 1.
D01 C861
Ireland
Tel. +353 (0)1 677 8880


Supported by Irish Aid

Irish Aid logo

more info

  • Contact
  • Careers
  • FAQ
  • Governance

latest news

Hydroponics Boosts Yields for Kenyan Farmers

2025

Organic soil enhancers drive harvest gains in Burkina Faso

2025

Crop Insurance Protects Families from Climate Impact

2025

Close to 200,000 farm families benefit from Kenya project

2025

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