{"id":6431,"date":"2020-09-03T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T12:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/?p=6431"},"modified":"2020-09-03T13:23:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T12:23:56","slug":"impact-of-projects-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/impact-of-projects-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects Worked Directly with 275,000 Families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Self Help Africa supported over 275,000 households to grow more and earn more from their farms and small businesses, last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is amongst the top line figures in our newly published Annual Report, which provides detailed analysis and accounting of our work and the impact that it had on the lives of rural poor communities in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The document reports that the organisation carried out 32 separate agricultural and enterprise development project, while it\u2019s social enterprise subsidiaries broadened our work accessing and developing markets, and supporting national and international companies to do business in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 350,000 farmers who worked with Self Help Africa during 2019 diversified their farm activities in some way, and over 200,000 households increased their ability to cope with shocks \u2013 climatic, social, environmental or economic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"x-resp-embed x-is-video x-is-youtube\"><iframe title=\"Self Help Africa Annual Report 2019 Animation\" width=\"877\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9-a1EPmNwC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During 2019, Self Help Africa supported 265,000 people to access financial services \u2013 helping them to create and invest in new farming activities and small income generating business opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report showed that over 55% of all of the people we supported in our projects last year, were women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside these core programmes, our social enterprise subsidiary TruTrade continued to develop market opportunities for farmers in Uganda and Kenya, while Partner Africa provided consultancy services to organisations and businesses in more than 40 African countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Self Help Africa had a total turnover of more than \u20ac25m last year. 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