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Tens of thousands of families in rural Malawi are enjoying cleaner and more reliable energy to light their homes and cook meals through a Self Help Africa energy project in partnership with GIZ EnDev and CUMO Microfinance.

The €3.5 million DSS-RBF project (short for demand-side subsidies results-based financing) offered financial subsidies to low-income rural households so that they could purchase solar home systems and improved cookstoves for less. The project focused on selling stoves and solar items at a lower costs to families.

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. 

Mikilina is amongst a group of women in Malawi who are practicing ‘sack gardening’