Self Help Africa is teaming up with five other leading Irish overseas aid charities to support some of the world’s poorest communities to respond to the worsening coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreWorld Food Day 2020: Grow, Nourish, Sustain, Together.
World Food Day 2020 will be celebrated on Friday, 16 October, with the theme Grow, Nourish, Sustain, Together – thanking farmers and food system workers.
Read MoreIrish Emergency Alliance combatting coronavirus
Self Help Africa is teaming up with five other leading Irish overseas aid charities to support some of the world’s poorest communities to respond to the worsening coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreOnline Celebration of Student Science Projects
Self Help Africa’s popular ‘Science for Development’ showcase, in collaboration with Irish Aid, goes ‘online’ next Wednesday, Sept 23rd.
Read MoreHouseholds Combatting Climate Extremes
There has been a four-fold increase in the number of households in Burkina Faso who are coping with the effects of extreme weather conditions.
Read MoreTree Planting Reduces Uganda Flood Impacts
Tree planting and other environmental work has spared communities in south-western Uganda from widespread destruction caused by torrential rains that have hit the area.
Read MoreResponding to East Africa’s Locust Invasion
Self Help Africa is involved in a three-way response to the locust crisis in East Africa, together with UN and government agencies
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Climate blamed for worst drought in a generation
The unseasonal drought in Zambia has plunged the country into crisis. Maize production has declined dramatically, leaving tens of thousands of families hungry, forced to ration their households to just a single meal a day.
Read MoreSupporting root crop production in Kenya
Self Help Africa is playing a lead role in a major national campaign to promote greater household consumption and farm production of a number of ‘poor man’s crops’ in Kenya.
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