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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.

More than three billion people around the globe do not have access to diets that provide the essential vitamins and minerals they need. This “hidden hunger” is driven largely by extreme poverty. In many cases, people rely on a limited diet made up of staple crops like maize. While these … Read More

Self Help Africa has distributed three quarters of a million fuel efficient stoves in Malawi in the past decade, generating hundreds of thousands of euro for producers and sellers.