Mary Banda has a mango tree at her home in Northern Malawi. It provides her family with food, and provides Mary with a source of income.
Read MoreCashew boost for West African women
Self Help Africa is involved in a three-way response to the locust crisis in East Africa, together with UN and government agencies
Read MoreAfrica Women – The Engine for Ending Poverty
Celebrate women farmers, the engine of development across sub-Saharan Africa.
Read MoreNew EU-funded project to benefit 100,000 farmers in Kenya
EU funded program will help thousands of small farmers and entrepreneurs in Kenya to scale up their business and move away from subsistence farming.
Read MoreRural Women: Remoteness, Rights and Violence
We are a member of the Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence (ICGBV), alongside Ireland’s leading international development organisations, which works collectively and with others in striving to eliminate gender based violence (GBV) in humanitarian and international development contexts. We are proud to support and to be featured in the most recent … Read More
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day: Press for Progress
For International Women’s Day, we talk gender equality and celebrate the women who press for progress in their communities.
Read MoreChallenges for women in Malawi: A mother/daughter perspective
After receiving training through Self Help Africa’s DISCOVER programme, Tamara increased her crop yields and is now harvesting enough to feed the family for the year.
Read MoreLooking after livestock health in rural Ethiopia
Yederawork Defar is an animal health assistant in Ethiopia and her job is to keep farm livestock healthy, productive and free from pests.
Read MoreSpeaking out about the Sustainable Development Goals
Speaking out, being seen – it was all about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at Global Green.
Read MoreEthiopian widow’s seed success
A widow, Schmegie Kulbla is part of the solution to the problem that small-scale farmers across Ethiopia face in accessing good quality crop seed. Upwards of 90% of the country’s farmers produce their own seed from year to year, standards are poor, and often result in crop yields that are just a fraction of their potential.
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