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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.

At Self Help Africa, we believe real change happens when development is led from the ground up. In this edition of our Meet Our Experts series, we’re proud to introduce Kate Hartley-Louis, Country Director for Self Help Africa in Malawi, and the dedicated team she leads. After graduating from the … Read More

Self Help Africa’s FOCUS Project is allowing communities in Malawi to battle widespread undernutrition. The EU funded project, short for Fortifying for our Communities Under-Nutrition Status, aims to deliver biofortified food to nearly 40,000 people across four districts, Thyolo, Balaka, Dedza and Mulanje. 

Self Help Africa has distributed three quarters of a million fuel stoves in Malawi in the past decade.