An invasion of armyworm is threatening maize and other cereal crops in Malawi, just weeks before harvest time.
Read MoreEndurance Race is Toughest Challenge
It’s Ireland’s toughest endurance challenge, and it returns for its 4th year this weekend.
Read MoreRegrets for the Past, Hope for the Future
Life has improved for Jessy. Her only regret is that it wasn’t like that when her family were young.
Read MoreCoping with Blindness a Family Affair
Minus has been helped by her grandchildren to run the farm since she went blind a few years ago. She is also receiving support from Self Help Africa.
Read MoreHunger Falls and Incomes Grow in Africa Projects
Impact Report shows number of households eating three times daily has increased, as have household disposable incomes.
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Read MoreQuarter million use farm phone service
A mobile phone information service established by Self Help Africa in 2014 to provide timely information to rural poor farmers, has been used almost a quarter of a million times within its start. Launched in Malawi late last year, the ‘321’ voice activated service provides subscribers to the country’s largest mobile phone network with a suite of farm information services that they can access at the push of a button.
Read MoreNutrition central to agriculture development
<pThe blight of hunger and malnutrition, which affects one in 12 people across the globe, is the central focus of an international conference hosted by the UN in Rome, this month. Figures from across the globe, including Pope Francis, attended the event, to find solutions to a global challenge that, in a world of so many excesses, is hard to countenance in the 21st century.
Read MoreGalway Kenya Run
World record holder and Olympic Gold medalist David Rudisha won the hearts of thousands of Irish fans, when he visited close to a dozen schools and competed in a series of showcase events in the West of Ireland recently. The Kenyan champion and his Irish-born coach Br. Colm O’Connell were in Galway in September, for a charity run and other events that will raise funds to support Self Help Africa and other charities.
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