‘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 More‘BETTER’ school for Merinda
Merinda receives farming education through EU funded BETTER project at local ‘field school’ in Malawi
Read MoreTruTrade wins MIT innovation award
TruTrade, our partner organisation working on agricultural enterprise and trade development, was recently honoured with an award from MIT Solve, a US-based initiative that champions solutions to the world’s most pressing problems through innovation and partnership.
Read MoreWorking together, building cooperatives
In management-speak, the acronym TEAM stands for Together Everyone Achieves More. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Africa, where individual smallholder farmers struggle to earn a viable living from the land. Joining up as teams, they become a vast alliance in the fight against hunger and poverty. A key part of … Read More
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