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Self Help Africa is hugely grateful to all of our supporters who helped us double the impact of their donations via the popular, annual \u2018Big Give Christmas Challenge.\u2019<\/p>\n

The most recent Big Give campaign raised almost \u00a320,000 to support the establishment of community-based seed enterprises in Africa. These enable rural poor farmers in remote areas to access good quality seed stock in time for planting season. Crops yields from good quality seed can be in excess of 100% greater than harvests from locally-saved seed varieties. <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Big Give Christmas Challenge raised a massive \u00a373 million in total, with 258 charities across the UK benefitting.<\/p>\n

Self Help Africa\u2019s largest donor in 2015 Christmas Challenge was the Keyworth Keylink Committee, who contributed \u00a33,500 to the fund. Amongst a total of 51 UK donors who contributed to Self Help Africa through the fund were Oldland Third Water Project and The Rotary Club of Willenhall in the West Midlands.<\/p>\n[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QSXwhYE_NcQ&w=560&h=550]\n

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The Big Give raised \u00a320,000 for Self Help Africa last Christmas.<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,637],"tags":[68,718,719,483],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture-nutrition","category-news","tag-agriculture","tag-big-give","tag-christmas","tag-fundraising"],"yoast_head":"\nBig Give's seasonal boost for Africa - Self Help Africa UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Big Give Christmas Challenge provided a seasonal boost to charity giving, as dozens of donors contributed to the fund, and raised \u00a320,000 for charity.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/biggive2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big Give's seasonal boost for Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Big Give Christmas Challenge provided a seasonal boost to charity giving, as dozens of donors contributed to the fund, and raised \u00a320,000 for charity.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/biggive2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Self Help Africa UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SelfHelpAfrica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-01-27T14:12:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-12-21T16:21:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/BigGive_850.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"850\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"532\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@comms\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@selfhelpafrica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/biggive2015\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/biggive2015\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Self Help Africa\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/#\/schema\/person\/ef27df5dc9e961797418d7a8bf315404\"},\"headline\":\"Big Give’s seasonal boost for Africa\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-01-27T14:12:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-21T16:21:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/biggive2015\/\"},\"wordCount\":172,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/biggive2015\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/BigGive_850.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Agriculture\",\"big give\",\"christmas\",\"fundraising\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Agriculture & Nutrition\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/biggive2015\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/biggive2015\/\",\"name\":\"Big Give's seasonal boost for Africa - 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