‘TruTrade’ has received the ‘Award For Global Prosperity’ in the Rural Transformation and Zero Hunger category, together with a $100,000 cash prize, an award that celebrates innovation to tackle real-world problems.
Read More2.2m People Reached
Self Help Africa worked with approximately 2.2 million people across 33 development projects in 2018, its annual meeting heard last week. The organisation’s largest project was in Kenya, where more than €24m was being invested over a five-year period in strengthening agri-business and creating new markets for 100,000 small-scale farmers. … Read More
Read MoreCommunity Saves Together
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
Read MoreShortlisted for innovation award
TruTrade has been nominated for €100,000 prize for their innovative digital platform, which has increased profits for African farmers and transformed trade.
Read MoreEnterprising roots!
Training and mentoring is to be provided to businesses in Kenya, in order to strengthen markets and incomes from cassava production.
Read MoreBlockchain first for Self Help Africa project
Self Help Africa is using blockchain technology to add value to the coffee value chain in Ethiopia.
Read MoreKenyan Cassava Boost
Training and mentoring is to be provided to businesses in Kenya, in order to strengthen markets and incomes from cassava production.
Read MoreA BETTER life for Alice
Since joining a village savings and loans group (VSLA), Alice used a small loan to build a piggery and buy a breeding sow that soon provided her with five piglets that she could fatten and sell.
Read MoreSingle mum becomes a businesswoman
Single mum Jescah learned how to grow cassava commercially, and is now earning her own income for the first time in her life.
Read MoreKenya agri-business call gets huge response
Close to 200 agri-businesses responded to the first funding call issued by a new project seeking to create profitable new markets for over 100,000 rural poor farming families in Kenya.
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