Self Help Africa - Annual Report 2008

Annual Report 2008 Burkina Faso/Ethiopia/EritrEa/ghana/kEnya/Malawi/togo/uganda/ZaMBia

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Self Help Africa Annual Report 20082

is a rural development agency that seeks to improve the lives of some of the poorest communities in

Sub-Saharan Africa. The organisation works with local staff, local partners and rural communities in

Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Togo and Zambia. Self Help Africa’s aim

is to deliver cost effective and sustainable solutions to the challenges facing rural African people.

What We do

activities that enable people to grow enough food all year around Crop diversification, improving access to quality seed, supporting irrigated farming, improving livestock, promoting the use of appropriate technologies

and other sustainable farming methods.

Initiatives that improve opportunities for africans to earn a living

Improving access to micro-finance and loans, providing skills, training and backing for initiatives that allow rural households to increase their earnings and

diversify their sources of income.

activities to improve access to basic social services Support for bore hole and shallow well construction, pump distribution, sanitation and pit latrine construction, support for school rehabilitation and

expansion, improvements to health services, education and training.

Initiatives that support and strengthen the organisational capacity of african communities Promotion and support for farmers co-operatives, support with marketing opportunities, development of improved infrastructures including including crop

storage facilities, value addition to food production, establishment and support for savings and credit co-operatives and provision of training.

Programmes that preserve and rehabilitate their natural environment and use available land wisely Tree planting, nursery development, watershed management programmes, gulley regeneration and land reclamation, soil fertility

management, promotion of composting, complementary cropping and other activities to encourage sustainable land use.

advocacy and dissemination for policy change Self Help Africa seeks to influence policies and issues affecting the lives of rural Africans through advocacy, dissemination,

partnerships and the promotion of best practice.

Mainstreaming hIV/aIdS and gender Voluntary counselling and testing programmes and measures to increase understanding and reduce the stigma

associated with HIV/AIDS along with activities and training initiatives that promote gender equality.

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Ray JordanChief Executive

Welcome to the first annual

report of ‘Self Help Africa’.

Within these pages we seek to

record some of the notable achievements

of the organisation leading up to and

following the successful integration of

the operations of Self Help Development

International and Harvest Help, last

summer.

Although Self Help Africa is a new organisation, the programmes

that we are implementing and the support that we are providing

in our African programmes and here at home in Ireland and

the UK is building upon the experience, the knowledge and the

understanding that the integrated new organisation has drawn

from its 25 years of experience working to alleviate the challenges

faced by Africa’s rural poor.

We firmly believe that agricultural production and the needs of

small-scale farming communities must be at the centre of efforts to

alleviate poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa in the years ahead.

It is a case that we make in the article on food and livelihoods on

the following pages and is at the heart of the work that we are

doing and which we document throughout this report.

The economic downturn of the past year and the alarming

inflation in global food prices over the same period underlines the

uncertain times we live in. Nonetheless, it is more pressing than

ever that we play our part and support communities in Africa so

that they escape the poverty trap once and for all.

The ‘self help’ approach to development that is applied by our

organisation across more than 40 development programmes in

nine countries works. We have seen it time and again and the

achievements and impacts are well documented in numerous

independent evaluations and assessments of our work. It is also

in our view the most cost effective way to achieve sustainable

and lasting change for the communities in Africa with whom we

collaborate.

I would urge you to share with us the successes that have been

achieved, but do so in the knowledge that a great deal of work

must still be done if millions of Africans are to have enough food

to eat, clean water to drink and the chance of a better life. Do so

also with the awareness that you too can play your part in making

a reality our vision of an Africa free from hunger and poverty.

Ray Jordan,

CEO, Self Help Africa

invEsting in agriculturE

For 25 years Self Help Africa has been working to improve the

lives of rural Africans, investing in sustainable programmes

designed to increase food production and enable Africans to

earn a living. Developing agricultural production at both local and

regional levels is crucial if the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

are going to be able to feed their growing populations in the years

ahead.

2008 saw a dramatic increase in world

food prices and a wave of protests and

rioting, which put the issue of small-

scale agriculture into sharp focus for

world leaders.

The gravity of the situation was

evidenced when the Secretary General

of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon

convened an emergency food summit

in Rome and spoke afterwards of a

need to ‘seize the historic opportunity

to revitalise agriculture’.

While the immediate concern of the

UN sponsored summit was on finding

a response to high food prices, the

Secretary General also sought the

creation of a United Nations taskforce

to focus on the longer term goal of

improving food security for the world’s poor.

At the same time as the United Nations was addressing the issue of food

production the UN’s former chief Kofi Annan launched a separate initiative

designed to drive farm production in Africa.

The number of people going hungry globally is expected to top the one

billion figure for the first time in human history and against this backdrop

Self Help Africa is more convinced than ever that agriculture provides the


Margaret Malakita irrigates her mustard crop in Malawi.

Irrigated horticulture helps rural families to increase production.

“Developing agricultural production at both local and regional levels is crucial.“

route out of poverty for the world’s poor.

Upwards of 80% of the people of the continent, or approximately 600

million Africans rely on small scale farming for their survival. It is only by

tackling the challenges and difficulties that they face that we will achieve a

lasting, long term solution to the problems of extreme poverty.

At Self Help Africa we have found that simple, affordable technologies can

have a profound effect on agricultural production for small-scale farmers.

Treadle (foot) pumps and drip irrigation kits provided to farm families

in countries where only 4% of agricultural land is irrigated has enabled

small-holders to double food production; support for the formation of co-

operative structures that allow farmers to access good quality seed stock in

time for the planting season and assist co-ops with the marketing and sale of

any surpluses has helped to lift many rural Africans out of poverty.

Complementary cropping and crop rotation, the use of

manure based composts rather than oil-based chemical

fertilisers and the sustainable use of available

land and resources are amongst the many other

approaches that can help Africans to grow more

food in a way that is both cost effective and

sustainable.

Years of chronic under-investment in the

agricultural sector in Africa, allied to

unequal trading arrangements which

have allowed western producers to

dump their surpluses on the markets

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of Africa and thus drive down local prices, are amongst the issues which

must be tackled by the world community. It is vital however that a practical

and pragmatic approach which reflects the culture and the circumstances of

African farmers themselves is brought to this challenge.

The 2000 Millennium Development Goal to halve the proportion of the

world population facing poverty and under-nourishment by 2015 is in

jeopardy – with increasing population, climate change and a global recession

all putting additional strain on the resources that are available to assist the

poorest and the most vulnerable.

It is heartening that the G8

countries and other world bodies

are prepared to take the lead

in adopting sound agricultural

policies and strategies to support

farming and rural development

in Sub-Saharan Africa.

We hope that others too will

see the merit and value of

this approach and back the

sustainable and participatory

approaches to poverty reduction

that Self Help Africa has been

championing for the past quarter

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Ethiopia

Aseries of integrated area based development programmes

that focus on local food production, income generation

and improving access to water and social services were

implemented last year by Self Help Africa in Ethiopia.

The organisation also supported initiatives to mobilise farmers in Oromia

and Southern Nations and Nationalities (SNNPR) into primary agricultural

co-operatives. These groups and a number of co-operative unions worked to

strengthen organisational capacity and to promote

diversification and marketing opportunities for

farmers.

Self Help Africa expanded micro-finance savings

and credit opportunities, directly supporting the

mobilisation of 8,000 new members into local

savings and credit co-operatives (SACCOs) and

providing backing to five SACCO unions in Oromia

and SNNPR regions.

Four area-based development programmes at

Bora, Huruta, Sodo II and Aleymaya II undertook

activities to improve agriculture and food

production. Activities also sought to rehabilitate the

natural environment, support income generation

and improve access to water, sanitation, healthcare

and education in the four areas.

Sodo II, in its third year, distributed drought-

resistant enset seedlings to 250 farmers; 90 farmers

began apple production; a range of

rain fed and irrigated crop production

activities were carried out and support

provided to an artificial insemination

(AI) scheme to improve local livestock

breeding.

The Sodo II programme was

supported in 2008 by the Skerries/

Sodo Community Group.

250 students were recruited to

the newly opened Kella High School

and more than10,000 people received

clean water from two new shallow

wells and the capping of a community

spring. Elsewhere, check dams and micro-basins were constructed to

conserve water and arrest soil erosion and 35 rope and washer pumps were

distributed to enable farmers to irrigate farm land.

The Huruta area programme supported nearly 4,000 farm families with

improved seed, distributed over half a million tree seedlings, 3,600 poultry

birds, 140 beehives and created an irrigation co-operative for 140 farmers.

A rainwater harvesting scheme was developed to support seven remote


Rope & washer pumps help households to irrigate land. More than 30 supporters sponsored new pumps for irrigated farming last year.

Papaya production is a valuable way to supplement income.

“4,000 families in Huruta received improved quality seed.“

rural villages; more than 1,000 SACCO members received assistance, while

nearly 3,000 farmers took part in training in methods of seed multiplication,

beekeeping, sanitation and family planning. Supported by the One51

Charitable Foundation, the Huruta Programme completed its three-year

development cycle in 2008.

The Bora area based programme supported 800 households to set up

tree nurseries, assisted a poultry development programme that reached

234 households, promoted a range of both rain-fed and irrigated farming

activities and supported composting and irrigated vegetable production at

farm household level.

Support was provided to a community to sink a borehole and provide

clean drinking water to over 500 households.

A revolving drug scheme to provide a sustainable supply of medicine to

users of a health centre in Alemtena was implemented and training was

provided on HIV/AIDS and gender to teachers.

At Alemaya II programme more than 1,300 farmers in Ethiopia’s

Eastern Highlands benefited from the promotion and

distribution of improved quality wheat seed, haricot

beans, teff and bean seeds during 2008. Nearly

1,000 other farmers were supplied with garlic,

potato and onion bulbs to begin vegetable

production, a further 720 households started

poultry rearing and 230 farm families planted

enset for the first time.

Self Help Africa’s Oromia and SNNPR

Agricultural Cooperative Development Programmes focussed on measures

to improve incomes, organisational strength and the earning potential of

co-operative members.

In Oromia 1,000 members received wheat and other crop seeds under a

local seed multiplication programme; seed potatoes were also multiplied and

distributed and finance and training was provided to savings and credit co-

operative members. This work received support from Dutch based ICCO.

In SNNPR region seed multiplication co-operatives provided improved seed

to over 4,500 farmers. Nearly 3,000 landowners were assisted in starting

production of alternate cash crops including haricot beans, onions and chilli.

Structures were put in place to strengthen dairy co-ops, with support

being provided for milk production systems, promotion of added value and

marketing of dairy produce.

Membership of SACCOs in Oromia increased to over 10,000 people, with

29 new primary credit co-ops joining three existing SACCO unions – at

Awash, Keleta and Ifa Boru. In SNNRP 8,000

additional members joined primary savings

and credit co-ops, increasing the membership

of two regional SACCO unions to more than

20,000. The Irish League of Credit Unions

Foundation (ICLUF) is supporting this work.

invEstMEnt: €1,976,826 / £1,574,245 • pErcEntagE oF prograMME spEnd: 34.1%

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•Sodo II

•Alemaya II

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ADDIS ABABA ETHIOPIA

KENYA SOMALIA

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EritrEa

Self Help Africa marked its 15th year in Eritrea in 2008. Work

included area programmes in the Gash Barka and Southern

Regions and support for a national beekeeping development

programme.

The organisation is one of a small number of international development

agencies working in the country, the result of a cautious approach to the

presence of overseas agencies by a Government that believes Eritrea should

not become dependent on the

resources of international NGOs.

Both of Self Help Africa’s area-

based programmes were affected

by a shortage of rainfall, which had

an impact on crop yields in many

areas. A shortage of farming inputs,

construction materials and fuel also

led to plans for several construction

programmes including dam and pond

building being deferred.

In 2008 the Emni Haili programme

supplied and distributed 500 ox-

ploughs through two community-run

farm shops. The programme also

distributed, through revolving funds,

close to 16,000 fruit tree seedlings;

supported planting of an additional

160,000 mixed tree saplings and assisted a programme that treated close to

20,000 livestock at two recently built animal health posts.

In Gogne, where the drought was particularly acute, two new rainwater

harvesting irrigation ponds were constructed to provide water to more than


Rain harvesting ponds in Gogne assisted householders to irrigate their land.

“500 ox-ploughs were distributed through farm shops in Emni Haili.“

The search for firewood is a daily chore in rural Eritrea. Homestead woodlots provided by Self Help Africa provide families with a ready supply of fuel wood for their domestic needs.

410 households (2,500 people) and 4,750 livestock. Because of the dry

conditions these facilities were dry for several months however.

Elsewhere, construction of a new elementary school was undertaken

in Adi Gebru with funding support of €100,000 (£90,000) provided by

friends and family in memory of Irish teacher Barbara Gill, while more than

140 desks and other furnishings were also provided to fit out the building.

Several primary savings and credit co-operatives (SACCOs) were also

established.

Nearly 9,000 high school students attended a two-day HIV/AIDS

awareness raising seminar and 8,200 students attended a drama

performance to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS, while 480 students visited

voluntary counselling and testing centres.

As part of the beekeeping development programme more than 110

colonies were raised and distributed through revolving funds to farm

families, while bee fodder planting was undertaken in different areas.

Planning and baseline studies for a number of proposed new area-based

programmes (ABPs) at Elabared and Mai-Aine sub-regions and at Kimira

in the Southern Red Sea region took place. These new programmes will

replace the existing ABPs at Gogne and Emni Haili, which will phase out

in 2009.

invEstMEnt: €421,192 / £335,417 • pErcEntagE oF prograMME spEnd: 7.3%


Rosena Garza used a small loan from a Self Help Africa savings co-operative in Gheleb to start a small sewing business in her village.

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ETHIOPIA

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110 farm families in Eritrea began beekeeping last year.

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kEnya

Self Help Africa made significant progress towards improving

food and livelihood security systems in its Kenyan programmes

in 2008, a year that was marred by widespread civil unrest,

unpredictable weather patterns and damaging fluctuations in food

prices in the country.

Food production was increased for householders across both area-

based programmes in Gilgil and Kamara. This came despite the enforced

suspension of activities in Kamara early in the

year, as post election violence caused more than

120 deaths, destruction of over 3,800 houses

and the displacement of over 24,000 people from

their homes.

As a result of the violence both Self Help

Africa and its local partners at Baraka Agricultural

College (BAC) teamed up with the Kenyan Red

Cross and other agencies to provide short-term

emergency support to local communities and later

supported conflict resolution measures affecting

communities.

As 2008 progressed major progress was made

with efforts to improve food and livelihood

security activities in Kamara and Gilgil; measures

to strengthen local farm production and capacity

were undertaken at Nakuru, Bomet, Kericho,

Koibatek and Baringo and beekeeping enterprises

were promoted across each

of these districts.

A review and evaluation

of Self Help Africa’s

partnership with BAC on a

beekeeping development

programme that has

supported more than 5,000

rural Kenyans across the Rift

Valley and Pokot regions to

develop beekeeping and

honey production activities

over the past five years was

also carried out.

Agricultural production

was enhanced by seed

multiplication and the distribution of alternate seed varieties, as well as

by the promotion of improved quality maize. Support was given for the

distribution of sweet potato and beans as a drought-tolerant crop.

Drip irrigation and a range of activities to support farmers associations

were undertaken and assistance through revolving fund loans was provided


A seed multiplication programme helped local crop diversification in Kenya. More than 120 supporters sponsored seed packs in 2008.

“Construction of a new primary school at Thome was started.“

Dozens attended beekeeping artisan skills training courses at Baraka College, where they learned how to make their own hives.

Self Help Africa established a number of valuable funding partnerships

during the year - with the Australian High Commission supporting a drip

irrigation initiative and Family Health International (FHI) supporting a

programme to help individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS. Partnerships

were also established with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP);

the Republic of Finland on the localisation of the Millennium Development

Goals and with Community Development Trust Fund (CDTF) on a programme

of advocacy and environmental rehabilitation in Gilgil and Elementaita. Self

Help Africa established a funding partnership with Irish NGO Gorta that

provided valuable backing for elements of the organisation’s area based

programme at Gilgil.

SHA also successfully networked with a range of Kenyan government

institutions, including the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) on

the promotion of drought tolerant crops; the Kenya Rain Water Association;

Kenya Land Alliance (KLA) and the Horticultural

Development Crops Authority (HCDA).

Market oriented production of passion fruit,

avocado and sunflower was undertaken, with

markets sourced for the sale of farmers

produce to local outlets in the

Gilgil area.


David Karanja of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute presents packets of drought tolerant beans to a seed multiplier group in Gilgil.

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to farmer ‘common interest groups’ (CIGs) to build poultry and livestock

housing and to strengthen links with Government Ministry services.

Crop failures caused by drought and low prices paid for produce

affected many producers however.

Farmers in Gilgil were also assisted with the production

of sunflowers and onions as cash crops. Other activities

were carried out to improve the management of local natural

resources, including the development of water points at

Kiambogo and Reracua, while construction of a new primary school

at Thome was started.

Links were forged to allow four farmers associations in Gilgil to sell their sunflower crop to a local food oil producer.

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nAIRoBI

Malawi

Self Help Africa’s Malawi Programme is known as FAIR and is

run in collaboration between ourselves, the Development

Fund, a norwegian organisation and the UK-based agency Find

Your Feet.

The FAIR rural livelihoods programmes continued to work with more

than a dozen local partners in the north and central regions. The FAIR

programmes included a range of community based rural development

initiatives to support more than 17,000

households (approx. 85,000 people) to improve

their livelihoods.

In 2008 its activities included an extensive

food security programme for nearly 9,000

households at Rumphi that receives backing from

the European Union and an initiative to train

several thousand ‘lead farmers’ as trainers in

communities in Nkhata Bay, Mzimba and Rumphi

districts.

The participatory community approach in

Rumphi was applied to support three local

partners -LOMADEF, CICOD and TAPP to re-

engage with communities in other areas of

the north on new programmes. CICOD and

TAPP were also supported to collaborate on a

programme to maximise the impact of their work

by using shared learning and expertise.

During a three year period (2008-

2011) FAIR will seek to improve rural

livelihoods and food security for

upwards of 30,000 households in

nine districts, with specific emphasis

on strengthening the capacity of local

partners to undertake future activities.

The programme is also engaged in

successful partnerships with local

NGOs who are working

in areas of biodiversity

development and conservation, in wetlands management, in

HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness and in advocacy.

Local partners undertook a broad range of activities

in 2008 including: sinking wells and developing water

sources for drinking and irrigation; promoting and

developing composting and manure production,

beekeeping, tree nurseries, alternative vegetable crops

and fruit tree promotion, as well as activities to support


Support was provided to members of 16 micro-finance groups.

2,200 households began soya production in 2008

“The FAIR programme works with more than a dozen local partner nGos.“

Examining a cassava plantation in Malawi.

and develop livestock production. Small-scale micro-finance programmes

and seed multiplication co-operatives were supported, and assistance was

provided with the roll out to communities of voluntary counselling and

testing services (VCT).

Self Help Africa’s two food security and integrated rural development

programmes, at Masumbankhunda and Kalembo in the south of the

country, are seeking to improve the lives of 17,600 households (approx.

120,000 people) in the geographic areas of Lilongwe and Kalembo Districts

respectively, over a five year period to the end of 2011.

During 2008 the programmes supported the formation of 74 seed

committees to multiply and distribute improved quality seed and alternate

seed stock to rural farmers in their areas. Training in crop management was

provided to over 670 farmers, while 2,200 households received seed and

training to begin soya, cassava, groundnut and sweet potato production.

Farmers associations, clubs and co-operatives were formed into

associations, clubs and co-operatives; members of 22 groups received

training in irrigated horticultural production; 21 livestock groups were

supported with goat and pig rearing activities, and the members of 16

primary micro-finance savings and credit co-operatives were linked to the

leading finance lending institution FINCOOP.

Construction work on new school blocks at Kaweche Primary School in

Masumbankhunda and at Mbayi Primary in Kalembo was completed, while

additional school improvement work at a further two schools was started

during 2008.

18 new shallow wells were sunk and Malda pumps

installed; 174 community representatives from 17 villages

received training in water management and hygiene and

a programme to promote agro-forestry and fruit tree

production was started.

More than 4,400 people attended HIV/AIDS awareness

raising activities and training, while nearly 1,300 signed up

for voluntary counselling and testing for HIV/AIDS.

In 2008 Self Help Africa finalised its earlier area-based

development programmes at Nsondole in Zomba District

and at Kaphuka in Dedza.

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A farmers co-operative in Malawi.

2,200 households began soya production in 2008

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uganda

Self Help Africa commenced one new area based programme

in Uganda in 2008, bringing to four the number of area based

programmes being implemented in the country.

The newest programme was started at Kumi-Bukedea in the second half

of the year following baseline needs assessment work and the recruitment

of local staff. The programme is located in north-eastern Uganda, in an area

with a total population of more than 450,000 people living in and near over

440 villages. More than 75% of households

live below the poverty line.

Preliminary work in Kumi-Bukedea

included the identification of suitable sites

for cassava multiplication, hosting of a series

of meetings with district planners, sub-

county leaders and others who will support

the organisation’s development activities

over the coming five years. By year end

a total of 317 seed multiplication sites for

cassava production had been established.

The new programme was started

as preparations got underway for the

completion of its two longest established

Ugandan development programmes – at

Amuria and Kamuli respectively.

Activities in Kamuli were concentrated

primarily on managing the exit process,

with particular focus placed on strengthening the organisational capacity

of farmers associations and co-operatives and on measures to add value to

post-harvest farm produce.

A number of seed store management committees were also established

across Kamuli, while training programmes were organised for farmers

associations and assistance provided with the registration of these

organisations.

In Amuria the focus was also on strengthening existing local structures,

although significant work was also carried out with farmers groups and

associations to improve productivity which had been seriously disrupted by

severe flooding in late 2007.

Extensive seed distribution was carried out in Amuria through purchase

and revolving fund, with more than 2,250 households participating in

groundnut production, 600 households in cassava production

and a further 210 farmers being supported as part of

an improved breed goat programme. To add value

and save labour with crop production activities two

Groundnuts, upland rice and cassava were amongst the alternate crops being promoted.

317 sites for cassava multipication were established.

“2,250 households in Amuria took part in groundnut production“


ground nut shellers and two cassava chippers were procured and distributed

to farmer groups.

Two new maternity units were constructed in Amuria at Morungatuny

and Kuju sub-counties respectively, while 17 individual tree nursery farmers

received training. Mother gardens were established for the production of

both citrus and mango in each of six sub-counties and a programme to

support cassava seed multiplication was initiated.

The country’s fourth area based programme at Kayunga entered its

second year in 2008 and Self Help Africa grew its programme reach

considerably, to provide coverage to approximately 80% of the district

during the year.

An extensive programme of community sensitisation meetings were also

held, promotion of alternate crops carried out and distribution of planting

materials undertaken.

Nearly 3,000 farm families were supported with crop inputs for beans,

rice, maize and cassava. A new programme to pilot banana production

amongst farmers was started, with 40 households receiving 8,000 plants to

begin production and multiplication.

Local farmers associations and co-operatives received organisational

support and 11 micro-finance savings and credit co-operatives (SACCOs)

were created. Assistance was also provided to ensure that farmers groups

can form linkages to add value to crop production and source markets for

their surplus produce.

In Kayunga five farmer-owned tree nurseries

were established, a sanitation programme

distributed 600 pit latrine slabs and a further 700

pits were dug.

10 secondary schools were reached with

HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention messages,

five voluntary counselling and testing outreach

initiatives for HIV/AIDS were supported, 18 adult

literacy classes supported and 30 instructors

trained to support further adult literacy work in

the area.

Farm families use small micro-finance loans to buy livestock.

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TANZANIA

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wEst aFrica

Self Help Africa extended its activities in West Africa to Burkina

Faso, the second poorest country in the world, in 2008. A series

of new pilot programmes were started in the country with new

local partners.

This expansion followed the establishment of a regional office in

Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso to oversee all of the activities

being supported by Self Help Africa in West Africa – in Togo, Ghana and

latterly Burkina Faso.

Across the three countries Self Help

Africa is collaborating with six local

development partners, the largest

of which is TRAX Togo, which is

implementing work in the far north of

that country.

The Togo programme is providing

support to more than 2,500 households

(approx. 22,000 people), assisting

communities to increase food production

and household income, rehabilitate

the natural environment, improve local

access to clean water, address the

challenges presented by HIV/AIDS and

strengthen local development capacity.

€120,000 (£108,000) provided by

the UK Big Lottery Fund was invested in

the Togo programme

last year.

The organisation

began working

in West Africa (as

Harvest Help) in

2005, when it took

charge of a number

of development

programmes that

had been started by

the former UK based

organisation TRAX in

the late 1980s.

The activities

are in remote rural

communities across a

geographical region

that includes expansive

areas of savannah and

semi-arid zones where


Traditional basketry is a valuable way to supplement family income.

Sampana Kourouk, with her daughter Sanbon, has seen her family income increase as a result of practical support they have received.

“The Togo programme is providing support to over 2,500 households.“

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soil fertility is poor and climatic conditions difficult for food production.

The new programmes in Burkina Faso include four year-long pilot

programmes carried out by local partners PER, Wend Yam, ORGANIC

and ASCDIS. This work is taking place in the provinces of Zondoma,

Bam, Oubritenga and Bazaga and focuses on soil fertility management

methods; improved seed multiplication and dissemination; livestock health

management and improved feeding; bee keeping and awareness of

HIV/AIDS.

In 2008, Self Help Africa supported a six-month Sustainable Livelihoods

and Community Empowerment programme that involved close to 1,000

poor farmers in the Northern and Upper East Regions of Ghana. The

work was carried out by a local partner, TRAX Ghana, and included soil

fertility management, crop diversification, livestock husbandry and health

management, together with awareness on sustainable environment

management.

A total of nearly 7,000 people benefited from this programme,

which also provided training to 20 Community Trainers in the

area.

The West African region where Self Help Africa works is

one of the poorest parts of the world. During the past decade

poverty has worsened, with IFAD estimating that nearly

50% of the total population live on less than one US

dollar per day.


Timbil Babong in his onion store in Bolgatanga, Ghana.

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“The Togo programme is providing support to over 2,500 households.“

Millet is a valued crop for small scale farmers in West Africa.

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ZaMBia

In Zambia, 2008 was a year of transition for Self Help Africa with

six programmes ending and four new programmes starting up.

The Striking a Balance programme has enabled 500 households across

three sites in Mpika to successfully ensure that local wetlands do not dry out.

Activities were completed at Mpika, Chibombo and Chipapa – where

crop diversification and other activities saw productivity and incomes increase

significantly.

PROP (Programme for the

Reduction of Poverty) in Eastern

Province, recorded notable

improvements in micro-finance,

with savings and credit groups

being formed and ‘village

banks’, with offices in Lundazi

and Chipapa being created. Full

repayment has been seen within

the groups circulating their own

savings and there is over 90%

repayment on loans made using

‘external’ capital.

EU funding was received

to support the development

of rural enterprise in the areas

around Kaoma, Senanga,

Solwezi and Kasempa. The

two MORE (Market Orientated Rural

Enterprise) programmes in North Western

and Western Province respectively

provided business skills training and

funding for small capital investments to

improve the quality of produce sold and

build lasting links for farmers to market

and sell their produce. A pilot initiative

was also forged with Eastern Province

Farmers Cooperative in their efforts to

develop a market brokerage service

for primary cooperative groups around

Chipata.

In Chibombo District the work of

OPAD (Organisation for the Promotion of

Meaningful Development through Active Participation) has been extended

to another ward – Liteta, where the UK Big Lottery Fund and Development

Fund of Norway are both supporting a four-year programme to assist 2,000

A goat house at a homestead in Zambia.

“EU funding was received to support the development of rural enterprise in the areas around Kaoma, Senanga, Solwezi and Kasempa.“


Maize harvesting in Zambia.

households. Emphasis in 2008 was on developing community leadership to

support agriculture development and address HIV/AIDS.

Self Help Africa in partnership with the Development Fund, FOSUP,

PELUM and WWF-Zambia continued to explore how the voice of small

holder farmers on issues of natural resource management, agriculture

and the environment can be strengthened.

Our partnerships in Zambia with OPAD, Keepers Zambia

Foundation, Mthila Kubili, Micro Bankers Trust, FOSUP,

PELUM and WWF-Zambia have continued to develop. Our

partnership with government, particularly with the Ministry

invEstMEnt : €1,001,028 / £849,322 • pErcEntagE oF prograMME spEnd: 17.3%

Maize is an important staple crop for small-scale farmers in Zambia.

Poultry rearing allows families to diversify their income. Close to 200 supporters sponsored poultry gift certificates at Christmas and directly supported African families with poultry rearing.

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of Agriculture and Cooperatives has been strengthened through our work on

two rural enterprise programmes in the West and Northwest Provinces.

Collaboration with the Seed Control and Certification Institute (SCCI)

under the DFID funded Rights to Seed Programme is influencing thinking

about the role of small-scale seed producers in Zambia and work is under

way to prepare a scaling up of this work. The European Commission

continues to be our major funder in Zambia.

At the end of 2008 a new partnership was forged with Development

Fund of Norway for a new joint programme in Zambia.


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We are seeking to achieve this objective by:

Orientating our programmes to researching and learning the most

effective practices, policies and processes that address the needs of

smallholder farmers and rural communities. This evidence based learning will

be channeled by Self Help Africa into future programme improvements, and

into wider rural development networks.

Adopting a systematic approach to capturing and recording lessons

learned through monitoring and evaluation and disseminating this

knowledge in a manner that can influence the wider

development debate.

Advocating to influence opinion in the

countries where we work, within the NGO sector,

and in the Western world.

Being a pro-active voice at national

and international assemblies where

development issues are being discussed

and policies formulated.

Utilising our Development Education network to work with secondary

schools to advocate for sustainable solutions to the challenges faced by

Africa’s rural poor, and thus influence future strategies on how poverty

eradication can be achieved.

In this way Self Help Africa will promote sustainable small-

holder agriculture as an effective response to eradicating

hunger and improving economic prospects for

Africa’s rural poor. Our influence will reach beyond

the programme areas in which we are actively

engaged ensuring that as an organisation we

have the greatest impact possible.


LearnIng, adVocacy and dISSeMInatIon

Self Help Africa is committed to organisational learning,

bringing together the experiences gathered over 25 years to

continually improve the quality of our programmes. Self Help

Africa will use its knowledge and evidence gathered to advocate for

community-led sustainable rural development as the most effective

approach to combatting poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Self Help Africa advocates for community led development.

dEvElopMEnt Education

Amongst the notable highlights of 2008 were:

Kilkenny student Tara McGrath won the Irish Aid sponsored Science

for Development Award at the BT Young Scientists Exhibition. A TV

documentary of her subsequent visit to Ethiopia to field test her winning

invention was screened on RTE television. Tara is now at University College

Cork studying Development.

Self Help Africa (SHA) partnered with NGOs Concern and 80:20 on a

programme that took a group of students to Brussels to lobby MEPs and the

UN on the Millennium Goals.

SHA partnered with South Dublin County Council on a resource book on

Ethiopia for primary schools.

32 schools participated in a Transition Year course,

to produce a booklet to support teachers to deliver

development education in their classrooms.

Annual Easter schools trip took students and

teachers from nine post-primary schools from Ireland

and Brussels to Ethiopia.

SHA is collaborating with the Department of

Education Support Service on a new image resource on Africa.

Development Programme co-ordinator Patsy Toland is appointed to chair

the Irish Development Education Association (IDEA) and to the Ministerial

advisory panel on Development Education.

SHA and the Diseases of Poverty Consortium at NUI Maynooth delivered

two Develpment Education awareness days to 160 teacher training students

at NUIM.

SHA continues its support in the UK for development education initiatives

through its partnership with the Shropshire-based ‘Bridges’ programme.

SHA UK ambassadors gave talks in schools, which generated more than

€15,000 in funding support.

UK schools organised fund-raising activities including fetes, discos, and an

‘The Apprentice’ style business development initiative.

More than 120 Irish second-level schools participated in workshops co-

ordinated by Self Help Africa’s development education team during

2008. Aid, trade, social justice, poverty and the Millennium Development

Goals were amongst the topics debated and discussed, as more than 3,500 students

engaged in awareness raising activities. 2008 was the 10th year that the organisation has been involved in bringing development education

into classrooms in Ireland and in that time more than 200 schools have been involved with the programme. In the UK Self Help Africa’s network

of volunteer ambassadors gave talks and encouraged fund-raising activities in post primary schools.

‘Twenty Fifteen’ is the first in a series of books to be published by our Dev Ed unit in collaboration with our schools network. A compendium of new writing by students and invited contributors on the MDG to eradicate hunger and poverty, it includes submissions by Seamus Heaney, Anne Enright, Sebastian Barry and others. ‘Twenty Fifteen’ is available for sale through Self Help Africa’s web-site.



Fuel efficient stoves save labour and use a fraction of the wood fuel of open fires.

Rural Africans face huge problems in their efforts to feed their families.

A hot dry climate, low levels of soil fertility, small farm sizes, limited

access to quality seed, the unpredictability of rains on which so

much agriculture is dependent – all combine to make growing food more

difficult.

A deteriorating natural environment caused by population growth and

consequent pressure on marginal lands, by poor farming practices and by

other factors including climate change presents yet another barrier

to the efforts of Africans to improve their lives and incomes.

The sustainable use of land and careful management of the

environment is central to the work that Self Help Africa and

its partners are doing in each of our programme countries.

This work takes many forms – from community-led

environmental rehabilitation initiatives and water table

management and water conservation activities, to the

promotion of sustainable farming practices such as crop

rotation, complementary cropping, compost production

and other measures to improve soil fertility.

Extensive tree planting programmes to conserve

the environment and measures such as the promotion

of fuel efficient cooking stoves are also part of our

natural resource management activities, which

also seek to redress the rapid decline in woodlands

caused by land clearance for farming and by the

daily demand of households for fuel wood and

protEcting thE EnvironMEnt

charcoal to cook their meals.

This work is being done to ensure that marginal lands in semi-arid regions

can continue to support rural communities.

It is possible thanks to vital backing that we receive from our supporters

each year.

Examples of this support include:

The restaurant owner who is contributing a small percentage from

each meal sold to plant trees on eroded hillsides in Gogne, Eritrea

The hundreds of supporters who have sponsored fuel efficient

cooking stoves through our on-line shop.

The printing company that funded more than 7,000 fruit, fodder

and other mixed tree seedlings to be planted on community scrubland

in Ethiopia, last year.

And the individuals and families who bought alternative Christmas

Gifts from Self Help Africa last year and enabled more than 200

households to establish small homestead woodlots to provide fuel,

building materials, shade and shelter on their

farms.


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This report sets out to record the financial activities and

accomplishments of Self Help Africa across its different countries of

operation during 2008, together with some of the notable activities

and achievements that took place at organisational level during the year.

2008 was most notable as it marked for us the creation of ‘Self Help Africa’,

following the integration during the year of the activities of Self Help

Development International (SHDI) and of Harvest Help.

I would like to compliment both the trustees of

Harvest Help in the United Kingdom and the

board of SHDI in Ireland for the business-like

and expeditious way that this amalgamation was

directed and overseen.

I would also like to compliment our Chief Executive

Ray Jordan and UK Director Steve Langdon, their

respective teams and also our staff and partners

in Africa for the valuable contributions that were

made to the integration process and the subsequent

successful launch of Self Help Africa.

Launch

The newly integrated organisation Self Help Africa

was formally launched at a reception hosted by the

Speaker of the House of Lords, Baroness Helene

Hayman in London and in Ireland by the Minister

for Overseas Development, Mr Peter Power in

summer, 2008.

There followed a

busy and eventful

period, as Self Help

Africa worked to

put into place a set of clear and cohesive strategies to meet our development

objectives in the nine African countries where we work. At home the launch

of Self Help Africa was followed by a detailed review and evaluation of our

operations and the establishment of a set of robust ‘best practice’ business

systems and policies that will ensure we are well placed to deliver quality

programmes at home and abroad in a manner which is efficient, effective

and to the highest professional standards.

Strategic Plan

A new strategic plan to map the future aims, objectives and goals of Self

Help Africa was adopted. Work on this plan was started at programme

level in Ireland and UK, and received valuable input from organisational

teams, country directors across all of our African programmes and other

stakeholders. This was started at programme level in Ireland and UK, but

received valuable input from organisational teams and country directors

across all of our African countries.

challenges

Those who are involved in tackling poverty in the developing world face

considerable challenges. The scope and extent of the task ahead was further


Children gathering firewood in Ethiopia.

Ox ploughing in Eritrea.

chairMan’s rEport

underlined during 2008 when a global spike in food prices caused riots and

civil disturbance in many poorer countries.

The spotlight cast on food prices and food production was encouraging to

us as it focussed attention on the issue, and on the key role that agriculture

has to play as the driver of economic advancement for millions of African

people. Self Help Africa has been greatly heartened by the contributions

to this debate by the United Nations, the UK Food Group and by Ireland’s

Hunger Task Force to this ongoing dialogue.

economic climate

The deteriorating world-wide economic climate of the past six months is just

the latest challenge that confronts us.

Although exchequer spending must be cut to balance national budgets, we

believe that it is more important than ever that these cuts do not hit the

poorest and the most vulnerable.

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set a series of

ambitious and honourable targets for the international community when

they were first published by world leaders at the start of the 21st century.

In these difficult economic times it is important that we recognise that the

need to assist impoverished nations and improve the social and economic

conditions of the world’s poorest countries are as pressing today as they

were when first drafted.

Support

Self Help Africa is grateful for the continuing institutional support that we

receive from the Irish Government’s multi-annual programme budget –

MAPS, from the UK Department for International Development, from the

European Union, from the many other trusts and foundations, corporate

benefactors and members of the public who support our work and our

vision.

Some board changes took place in 2008. I wish to welcome those who

joined and sincerely thank those who no longer serve for their longstanding

contributions. I would also like to thank our staff and volunteers in Ireland,

UK and Africa who have worked diligently to develop and consolidate the

work of Self Help Africa.

I wish to acknowledge everyone who made a contribution; the board of

directors who have given freely and voluntarily of their time; donors big and

small who have not already been mentioned; our team of ambassadors,

volunteers and collectors who work so hard at church gates and with other

activities; the supporters who annually travel to Africa to review our work

having raised substantial funds; the Irish Farmers Association for continuing

to nominate Self Help Africa as their charity of choice; those professional

people who give their time and expertise to support the organisation, and

the many others who lend their support and assistance to our work.

We are committed to our vision for an Africa that is free from poverty and

hunger and look forward to your continuing support as we strive to improve

the lives of some of Africa’s poorest communities in the years to come.

Tom Corcoran,

Chairman, Self Help Africa.

rEport oF thE chairMan For thE yEar EndEd 31st dEcEMBEr 2008


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Financial inForMation

ConSoLIDATED STATEMEnT oF FInAnCIAL ACTIvITIES FoR THE YEAR EnDED 31 DECEMBER, 2008

Unrestricted Funds

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Unrestricted Funds

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Restricted Funds

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Restricted Funds

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Total Funds2008

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Total Funds2007

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Total Funds2007

£ Incoming resourcesIncome resources from charitable activities- Grant income 218,073 5,222,679 5,440,752 5,582,631 173,662 4,159,080 4,332,742 3,822,762

Income resources from generated funds

- Voluntary income 1,834,099 1,298,634 3,132,733 2,667,419 1,460,585 1,034,167 2,494,752 1,826,542

Other Incoming Resources

- Interest & investment income 54,971 - - 54,971 21,629 43,776 - - 43,776 14,811

Total incoming resources: 2,107,143 6,521,313 8,628,456 8,271,679 1,678,023 5,193,247 6,871,270 5,664,115

Resources expendedCharitable activities (982,820) (6,642,490) (7,625,310) (6,992,985) (782,669) (5,289,747) (6,072,416) (4,788,516)

Costs of generating voluntary income (714,865) - - (714,865) (811,871) (569,283) - - (569,283) (555,937)

Governance costs (74,012) - - (74,012) (78,810) (58,939) - - (58,939) (53,966)

Total resources expended (1,771,697) (6,642,490) (8,414,187) (7,883,666) (1,410,891) (5,289,747) (6,700,638) (5,398,419)

Losses on revaluations of investment assets (8,165) - - (8,165) (1,005) (6,502) - - (6,502) (688)

Transfers between funds (51,531) 51,531 - - - - (41,037) 41,037 - - - -

Merger transaction costs (37,273) (37,273) (29,682) - - (29,682) - -

net incoming/(outgoing) resources 238,477 (69,646) 168,831 387,008 189,911 (55,463) 134,448 265,008

Funds at beginning of year 575,117 1,270,551 1,845,668 1,461,587 393,817 870,023 1,263,840 1,000,836 Exchange loss on consolidation (88,483) (82,089) (170,572) (2,927) (70,463) (65,372) (135,835) (2,004)

Funds at end of year 725,111 1,118,816 1,843,927 1,845,668 513,265 749,188 1,262,453 1,263,840


Irish Aid 40%

General DonationsE3,132,733£2,494,752

Irish AidE3,500,000£2,787,225

other InstitutionalDonors (EU,DFID,DF,FAo,UnDP)E957,517£762,519

Trusts & Foundations E983,235£782,999

GRAnTS FRoM GovERnMEnTS AnD oTHER Co-FUnDERS

A full set of our financial statements can be downloaded at: www.selfhelpafrica.net

InCoME RESoURCES

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€ 2008 (E) 2007 (E) 2008 (£) 2007 (£)

Irish Aid 3,500,000 3,004,000 2,787,225 2,057,019

European Union 654,541 628,672 521,244 430,489

IAWS / One51 Charitable Trust 286,472 658,640 228,132 451,010

ICCO 200,000 200,000 159,270 136,952

Big Lottery Fund (UK) 141,450 288,236 112,644 197,372

Irish League of Credit Unions Foundation (ILCUF) 125,000 103,612 99,544 70,949

Department for International Development (UK) 122,096 129,650 97,231 88,779

Development Fund (Norway) 120,498 46,529 95,959 31,861

Wetland Action 113,276 44,821 90,207 30,692

Gorta 64,700 - 51,524 -

Family Health International Kenya 46,264 - 36,842 -

FAO Uganda 34,671 - 27,610 -

UNDP Kenya 25,711 - 20,475 -

Other grants 6,073 344,471 4,836 235,910

AMREP - 100,000 - 68,476

AusAid - 34,000 - 23,282

5,440,752 5,582,631 4,332,743 3,822,761

voluntary Income

General Donations 2,962,242 2,429,572 2,358,981 1663,674

Farmers Grow Fund 170,491 237,847 135,771 162,868

3,132,733 2,667,419 2,494,752 1,826,542


dirEct charitaBlE ExpEnditurE

EXPEnDITURE on PRoGRAMME ACTIvITIES BY CoUnTRY

West Africa3.0%

Zambia17.3%

Uganda16.1%

Malawi11.6%

Ethiopia34.1%

Eritrea7.3%

Kenya10.6%

2008 (E) 2007 (E) 2008 (£) 2007 (£)

ETHIoPIA 1,976,826 1,910,663 1,574,245 1,308,345

ERITREA 421,192 489,138 335,417 334,943

KEnYA 611,378 588,246 533,504 596,559

MALAWI 669,936 871,195 486,870 402,808

UGAnDA 933,065 572,760 743,047 392,203

WEST AFRICA 175,469 136,940 139,735 93,770

ZAMBIA 1,001,028 961,229 797,168 658,211

ToTAL 5,788,894 5,530,171 4,609,986 3,786,839

88.4% of our 2008 income was spent on Charitable activity.


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Self Help Africa is supporting a wide ranging programme of multi-annual rural development activities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

We have ambitious future plans too and with donor support will invest in a comprehensive range of new development initiatives in

the year ahead. These include:

ethIoPIa Completion of area programmes at Bora, Alemaya and Huruta and

measures to ensure future sustainability of programme gains.

Strengthening of agricultural co-operative programmes, with a focus

on business planning, produce storage and marketing.

Strengthening structures of savings and credit (SACCO) programme.

erItrea A new pilot programme to provide safe water and irrigation systems in

the remote southern lowland region of Kimira.

A new food and livelihood programme in Elabered region, with focus

on the introduction of short season, high yield crops.

Kenya Commencement of new Rongai development programme.

Promotion of drought tolerant bean multiplication systems.

Strengthening partnerships with groups including Community

Development Trust Fund, Family Health International and others on

different development initiatives.

MaLaWI Scaling up activities in Karonga and Chitipa Districts, with a focus on

food security and nutrition for HIV/AIDS affected families.

A new programme to improve crop diversity and food production in

areas adjacent to the Simlemba programme.

Strengthening of local farmers co-operatives, to ensure the

sustainability of agricultural gains.

Uganda A new programme at Kumi-Bukedea with emphasis on food security,

natural resources and access to clean water.

Cassava bulking initiative in Amuria.

Building farmer association capacity at Amuria and Kamuli.

Planning for potential new programme in Mayuge district.

WeSt afrIca

New pilot programmes to support farming and water development.

Strengthening existing programmes and development of new

partnerships and pilot farming, irrigation and water programmes.

Specific activities will promote market gardening for women,

beekeeping, improved seed multiplication and distribution and dry

environment farming.

zaMbIa Self Help Africa’s new joint-programme with the Development Fund of

Norway will strengthen links with local NGOs.

Focus on strengthening business skills in the community and

investment in ‘micro-programmes’ to allow farmers to improve the

quality and quantity of produce.

how your support has hElpEd

Where a LIttLe goeS a Long Way

Wamala Samuel is a community development agent and health

educator working with Self Help Africa in Bunyumya village in

Kayunga, Uganda.

In late 2008 he received a bicycle to assist him in his outreach work with

villagers and householders across the expansive Nsotoka parish. ‘I was given

the bike to improve my efficiency and it has worked. In the past I could

reach just 6 or 8 households a day on foot, but now I am able to visit 15 and

sometimes 20 homes each day’, he said.

‘In my role I give advice, help to monitor crops and can detect at an early

stage if there are problems. I am also mobilising farmers to carry out a

variety of other farming activities and am involved in local efforts to promote

better sanitation and in initiatives to support people with HIV/AIDS and their

families’.

In 2008 Self Help Africa supporters bought 100s of bicycles in our

Christmas Gift Campaign and from our on-line shop. Farm advisors,

health workers, midwives and HIV/AIDS counsellors are using these bikes

every day in their work.

A Community Worker with her new bike. “In the past

I could reach just 6 or 8 households a day on foot, but now I am able to visit 15 and sometimes 20 homes.“Wamala Samuel can now cover three times the distance on his new bicycle.


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