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About Self Help Africa

Self Help Africa is an international development agency that works at grassroots level tackling poverty and improving lives in rural Africa.

Self Help Africa's primary focus is assisting families and communities to grow enough food to feed themselves and to earn a sustainable living.

Our all-African staff and local partners will this year help hundreds of thousands of people to work their way out of poverty. We will do this by bringing simple and effective innovations to farming, managing natural resources and helping people access basic services like clean water, healthcare and education.

Self Help Africa has almost twenty-five years experience in bringing lasting solutions to poverty for Africa’s rural poor. We work in Burkina Faso,Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Togo, Uganda and Zambia.
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Run the London Bupa 10k 25th May 2009

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Andes to Amazon cycle challenge 2009

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How we work

Self Help Africa uses a wide variety of innovative technologies to assist the people we work with to achieve sustainability in their lives.

These approaches are cost effective and practical ways of tackling the very real challenges faced by Africa's rural poor.

They include measures to increase on-farm productivity, optimise the use of available water and resources, support income generation, and rehabilitate the natural environment.

Local people are active participants in our programmes, working in partnership with Self Help Africa to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Sub-Sahara, every year.

Why we work this way

Approximately 80% of Africans live in rural areas -their options to improve livelihoods largely restricted to agriculture.

We believe that real and lasting change can only be achieved by enabling and empowering local people - so that they have the tools, the training, and the necessary supports to break the cycle of famine and need.
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Friday, November 14th is National Sandwich Day
Click on the logo above to find out more about our Autumn campaign, and this fantastic fund-raiser.

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Self Help works in partnership with local communities to implement a broad range of programme activities, including crop production, irrigated horticulture, livestock development, improving access to health and education, natural resource management, and measures to combat HIV/AIDS, and gender inequality
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