{"id":10086,"date":"2019-11-13T13:39:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2019-11-13T13:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:39:15","slug":"lifetime-gifts-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/lifetime-gifts-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Change A Life This Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas, imagine being able spread the joy of the festive season. Imagine a gift that will last well beyond Christmas. A gift that will change lives forever.<\/p>\n<p>Self Help Africa\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/shop\/\">Lifetime Gifts<\/a>\u00a0give you the chance to provide hope and opportunity to some of Africa\u2019s poorest people. With practical gifts such as <a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/product\/goats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">goats<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/product\/seed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seeds<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/product\/tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">farm tools<\/a>, you can support rural poor African families farm their way out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Across sub-Saharan Africa, Self Help Africa is helping close to 300,000 families to become productive and self-sustaining farmers. Families like Emebet\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Emebet lives with her 4 children in Butajira, Ethiopia. \u201cPreviously, we had problems accessing improved seed. Our farm productivity was low, and sometimes there was not enough food to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joining a Self Help Africa project in her village, Emebet received not only improved variety of seeds, but technical training including sowing, planting and weeding, as well as<a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/product\/chickens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> chickens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #8cc540;\">Lifetime Gifts really do change lives&#8230;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Those simple gifts were truly life-changing for Emebet and her family:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing more food and raising chickens has helped increase my income. With the extra money I was able to purchase a dairy cow and horse cart to further grow my farm business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have also been many changes for my family. I can feed my children more nutritional food such as eggs. I have great hopes for my children for the future. I want them to be educated until university and I want to help them to begin their own life\u201d Emebet says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/shop\/\">With gifts starting at just \u00a310<\/a>, Self Help Africa supporters have the opportunity to transform the lives of thousands of poor rural families in Africa this Christmas. \u201cWhen you buy a Lifetime Gift, you\u2019re not just giving piglets, chickens or a bag of seed. You\u2019re giving mothers, like Emebet, the building blocks to help themselves and their children. You are giving them the helping hand that they need, to transform their lives and their futures.\u201d said Martha Hourican, Head of Fundraising at Self Help Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Purchase your Lifetime Gifts and Christmas cards today on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/shop\/\">online shop.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas, help poor farmers in Africa with Self Help Africa&#8217;s lifetime gifts.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/lifetime-gifts-2019\/\"> Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[700,703,637],"tags":[452,571,70,459,167,280,847],"class_list":["post-10086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-fundraising","category-news","tag-charity","tag-farm","tag-farming","tag-gift","tag-livestock","tag-seeds","tag-tools"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v23.4) - 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