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Mary’s Mango Tree

Self Help Africa24th March 2020Agriculture & Nutrition, Burkina Faso, Enterprise Development, featured, Gender, News, West Africa

Mary Banda and her daughter Sophia

Mary Banda earns almost half her annual income from a mango tree that grows in her front yard in Northern Malawi.

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Cashew boost for West African women

Self Help Africa11th March 2020Agriculture & Nutrition, Enterprise Development, featured, Gender, News, West Africa

Cashew processing in West Africa

Self Help Africa is involved in a three-way response to the locust crisis in East Africa, together with UN and government agencies

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Responding to East Africa’s Locust Invasion

Self Help Africa13th February 2020Agriculture & Nutrition, Climate Change, Ethiopia, Kenya, News

Self Help Africa is involved in a three-way response to the locust crisis in East Africa, together with UN and government agencies

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Community Saves Together

Self Help Africa1st July 2019Agriculture & Nutrition, Cooperatives, Development Education, Malawi, News

For 25-year-old Flavia, onions are a business. The mother of three earns a living selling the vegetables that she grows in a small plot at her home inthe far north west of Uganda. Flavia Dritchelo is a member of a horticultural group being supported and trained by Self Help Africa … Read More

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‘BETTER’ school for Merinda

Self Help Africa18th June 2019Agriculture & Nutrition, Cooperatives, Development Education, Malawi, News

Merinda Smiling

Merinda receives farming education through EU funded BETTER project at local ‘field school’ in Malawi

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Shortlisted For Innovation Award

Self Help Africa17th June 2019Agriculture & Nutrition, Enterprise Development, Kenya, News, Technology, Uganda

TruTrade

After a troubled childhood, young Francis is starting to rebuild his life thanks to support from Self Help Africa

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Seed security and success for Sisay and Kelemua

Self Help Africa7th February 2019Case Study, Climate Change, Cooperatives, Ethiopia, News

Sisay and Kelemua with their farm tools

Change happened for Sisay and Kelemua when they joined 6,000 farmers in Wirtu Boset farmers cooperative, and began working with Self Help Africa to make good quality grain seed available to cereal growers across the region.

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Costa’s long journey to safety and security

Self Help Africa13th August 2018Agriculture & Nutrition, Case Study, News, Zambia

The road to safety and security has been long and difficult for 30-year-old Costa Uwimana. Forced to flee her home country of Rwanda to the Democratic Republic of Congo when she was only about eight years old, it was only a few months before Costa had to leave again, this time for Angola.

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Could ‘going green’ break the cycle of poverty in rural Uganda?

Self Help Africa27th April 2018Enterprise Development, featured, News, Uganda

An innovative new project is hoping to break the cycle of poverty in rural Uganda, through the creation of a sustainable ‘green economy’.

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Improved seeds help farmer cope with extreme droughts

Self Help Africa15th March 2018Burkina Faso, Climate Change, featured, News, West Africa

In Burkina Faso, François Tarpaga is coping better with the recurring droughts hitting the country thanks to improved seeds and new farming techniques.

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