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AFRICA ADAPTING:<\/b>\n<\/span><\/h2>

HARNESSING POTENTIAL<\/b>\n<\/span><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Africa Adapting is an exhibition that illustrates how women and girls in communities across Africa are adapting to a changing, challenging world.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n\n

These are images and stories about people we're working with at Self Help Africa. Stories of women and girls who are harnessing information, science\u00a0and markets to mobilise their communities\u00a0in response\u00a0to the climate crisis and other pressing challenges.<\/div>\n
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At Self Help Africa, much of our work closely aligns with the\u00a0Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)<\/a>. In these increasingly challenging times, the stories of our 'Africa Adapting' exhibition reflect the connections between local action and global impact - highlighting the importance of working together to achieve the SDGs.<\/div><\/p>\n
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Together, we can build a more just and sustainable future for all, and leave no one behind.<\/div>\n
Take a look through the exhibition, and we'd love if you could answer a few short questions at the end!<\/div><\/div>
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Uganda Adapting:<\/b>\nGINGER SPICE<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

Joyce Akello is part of a youth group in Teso district that is growing ginger commercially to earn a living. In an area still recovering more than a decade on from years of violence, and with high youth unemployment, ginger is a valuable cash crop that\u2019s providing an income for 220 young members of nine local producer groups. Joyce and other young farmers were provided with rhizomes (root stock) and training by Self Help Africa. They have also been linked to a commercial buyer who processes and sells ginger products for sale across Uganda and to international markets.<\/p><\/div>

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The Gambia Adapting:<\/b>\nMANGROVE PROTECTORS<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

Fatou Sambou is among hundreds of women who are growing oysters commercially on wooden racks that they\u2019ve installed along the shoreline and riverbanks of The Gambia\u2019s west coast. Fatou\u2019s business is in the midst of dense mangrove swamps, which the women oyster farmers are also working to conserve. Their efforts are part of a wider environmental effort - part of a project funded by Irish Aid - to replant and restore West Africa\u2019s mangroves, up to 25% of which have been lost to human development and changing climate in recent decades.<\/p><\/div>

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ZAMBIA Adapting:<\/b>\nBANKING ON CHANGE<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

Rosemary Hatembo is a grandmother of 12 from Chongo village. For the first time in her life, Rosemary has \u2018money in the bank\u2019\u2013 savings that she\u2019s accumulated as a member of a local village savings and loans group. Rosemary has been saving with the Tiyumi Group (Tiyumi means \u2018courage\u2019 in her local dialect) for four years. She has used her savings and small loans to build a small business, trading poultry and other goods. <\/p><\/div>

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ZAMBIA Adapting:<\/b>\nGREEN CAMPAIGNER<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

Eleven-year-old Ellen is a young activist with the Green School Club at her school in Kafue District. She knows that people in Zambia aren\u2019t to blame for the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, but believes that everyone has a part to play in protecting the planet. There are 13 Green School Clubs in Kafue<\/a>. Through these clubs, students advocate recycling and reusing plastics, working to reduce charcoal-making and tree-felling, and try to raise awareness at home and in their communities of local environmental issues.<\/p><\/div>

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Kenya Adapting:<\/b>\nTAPPING THE TREES<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

The natural sap of a thorny scrubland tree might seem an unlikely source of income. But for the semi-nomadic Samburu tribeswomen in northern Kenya, the sticky resin that is \u2018tapped\u2019 from the desert acacia is valuable. The gum arabic that they collect is processed and refined, and eventually finds its way into a host of global brands and household products \u2013 including drinks, confectionary, paints, ceramics and more. Around 7,000 tribeswomen benefit from the enterprise<\/a>, which has been supported by Self Help Africa.<\/p><\/div>

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Malawi Adapting:<\/b>\nCLEAN COOKING<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

There are multiple benefits to the simple clay cook stoves that Adeere Nalunga manufactures as a member of a women\u2019s enterprise group in southern Malawi. The stoves that Adeere makes burn hotter and cleaner than traditional open fire cooking and require up to 70% less wood or charcoal. This not only reduces deforestation and carbon emissions but also reduces the amount of family labour spent gathering fuel wood.<\/p><\/div>

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Kenya Adapting:<\/b>\nCOTTON COMEBACK<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

Like hundreds of small-scale farmers in Kenya\u2019s Rift Valley, Consolata Anyango is reaping the dividends of a revival of traditional natural clothing. After a generation-long onslaught of low-cost synthetic alternatives, her bales of organic cotton are a new and valuable cash-crop that supplements her farming income.<\/p><\/div>

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Malawi Adapting:<\/b>\nYOU\u2019RE KIDDING<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

Goat rearing is inextricably linked to rural life in Malawi. Some 90% of rural households keep goats. They provide a source of meat, milk and manure for small-scale farmers like Nellie Mohonga in Mabalani village<\/a>. Cross breeding with stronger larger breeds have improved bloodlines. Self Help Africa, together with academics at Queens University, Belfast have developed an effective low-cost method to detect worm infestation in goats \u2013 a common problem that benefits from early treatment.<\/p><\/div>

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Ethiopia Adapting:<\/b>\nWATER HARVEST<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

Although Ethiopia has an abundance of lakes and some of Africa\u2019s biggest rivers, water shortage remains a major obstacle to food production. A community irrigation scheme in Gabisaa village has helped to route water onto nearby farmland and made the large-scale production of vegetables, including carrots, cabbages and radishes, possible. Husband and wife, Tekleye Gebre and Asnakech Alemu, run the farm, which now provides seasonal work for up to a dozen local women.<\/p><\/div>

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BURKINA FASO Adapting:<\/b>\nGREEN PLATEAU<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

Innovative use of scarce water has been at the heart of efforts to increase food production on the hot dry plateau of central Burkina Faso in West Africa. In Kourweogo Province, villagers like Habilou Nambaloum joined Self Help Africa producer groups who received tools, drip irrigation kits that optimise water use, and improved quality seed. Farm training also allowed Habilou and other farmers to maximise the potential of several hectares of seasonally-flooded land, where upland rice, onions and other vegetables are now grown.<\/p><\/div>

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ETHIOPIA Adapting:<\/b>\nBACKYARD BIRDS<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

Small-scale backyard poultry production is an important source of income and food for millions of rural poor households in Ethiopia. For Hajat Ahmed in Tehula district, it provides supplementary income that has enabled her to send her teenage daughters to school. Under the \u201845-day pullet programme\u2019 she breeds chickens, rears them and sells their eggs and meat in the local market. When things go well, Hajat is able to treble her investment every 45-day cycle.<\/p><\/div>

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Uganda Adapting:<\/b>\nVILLAGE CRAFTS<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

Against the panoramic backdrop of Uganda\u2019s Lake Bunyonyi, villagers are finding alternatives to farming to earn a living<\/a>. Close to Kishanzhe village, Susan and more than a dozen other women weave baskets, table mats and other traditional crafts using dried papyrus that they harvest from the lakeshore. These products are earning these women a living in an area that attracts large numbers of national and international tourist visitors, travelling both to lakeshore resorts and to the nearby Bwindi forest park and mountain gorillas reserve.<\/p><\/div>

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The Gambia Adapting:<\/b>\nMEDICAL AMBITION<\/em><\/span><\/h5>

Thirteen year old Haddy\u2019s ambition is to become a doctor. Thanks to an innovative partnership that links her school with The Gambia\u2019s largest fruit and vegetable exporters, and one of its biggest international customers, Haddy\u2019s chances of getting the education she needs are brighter. Radville Farm workers and the Waitrose Foundation<\/a> have provided Haddy\u2019s school - which educates many of the kids of farm workers - with better sanitation, clean water, electricity and a kitchen garden. The produce being grown in the school garden provides Haddy and her classmates with healthy and nutritious snacks.<\/p><\/div>

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Thank you for visiting!<\/span><\/h3>