For Kennedy Edyson, the floodwaters that came with Cyclone Jude washed everything away: his food, clothing, home, and also all of his family’s personal possessions. He remembers being woken in the middle of that night, last March, as flood waters streamed into his house. A father of two from Nsanje … Read More
Read MoreHow one Malawi grandmother is beating drought through climate-resilient farming
Prolonged drought and erratic rain in southern Malawi had taken their toll on 43-year-old farmer Modester. With an acre of maize harvesting barely enough food for three months, her grown up children had been forced to leave to find work in the city – leaving Modester as primary carer for her … Read More
Read MoreTackling Malnutrition in Malawi through Biofortified Food
Self Help Africa’s FOCUS Project is allowing communities in Malawi to battle widespread undernutrition. The EU funded project, short for Fortifying for our Communities Under-Nutrition Status, aims to deliver biofortified food to nearly 40,000 people across four districts, Thyolo, Balaka, Dedza and Mulanje.
Read MoreHow Pacific warming is affecting Africa’s weather
Countries in southern Africa have endured both severe and destructive tropical storms, extreme flooding and successive years of drought in recent times. Scientists link these events to a climatic phenomenon happening thousands of miles away in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, with a warming of sea surface temperature and changes to … Read More
Read MoreSUPPLY OF AFRIDEV PUMPS AND OTHER BOREHOLE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
Self Help Africa (SHA – formerly United Purpose) Malawi is an international non-governmental organisation working to create opportunities for lasting improvement in peoples’ lives. We work in partnership with others to support a range of livelihoods and food security, WASH and health, sustainable energy and gender equality programmes reaching over … Read More
Read MoreRebuilding Lives Devastated By Cyclone Freddy in Malawi
Our Cyclone Freddy Recovery Project is rebuilding lives in Mulanje district using a ‘Food for Assets’ approach to support participants and enhance the resilience of their communities to climate change.
Read MoreTransforming Communities in Malawi With Solar-Powered Water
After a cholera outbreak in Malawi’s Mtungwi village killed seven people and affected 280 others, Self Help Africa worked with the local district council to help prevent and protect the communities from further outbreaks of disease.
Read MoreBringing Clean Water to Dowa District: A Report from Malawi
Providing universal access to clean and sustainable water is a key priority for Self Help Africa’s Di- WASH programme in Malawi.
Read MoreBountiful backyard sack gardens
Mikilina is amongst a group of women in Malawi who are practicing ‘sack gardening’
Read MoreThree Quarters of a Million Fuel Stoves in Malawi
More than three quarters of a million energy-saving fuel stoves have been distributed by Self Help Africa in Malawi in the past decade.
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