Self Help Africa Newsletter 2008

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Newsletter 2008

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lasting

development

for a better

future

building blocks

for the future 3

an emotional

journey 10

development

education 12


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introduction

how self help africa works

2 self help africa newsletter 2008

Da suppo,

Fo co o 25 ya,

s Hp Aica ha bn

oking o aiapoy and ain,

and hp o o h

o diadanagd

counii in h

od o a b i.

I i changing bu hugy ading

ok o a inod, and a

ouna o ha a a in Iand,

h Unid Kingdo, and aco Aica

ho ho coin and coon

pupo ha i abo and byond h

ca o duy, in hi puui o hi goa.F ho ha ind h y a

n o achin and aiacion

on h ac o a ho ha

anod hi hoding ino

gadn o pny, o in h xpion

o oh no aning ony and

ab o nd hi chidn o choo,

oud dipu ha ou -hp

appoach o uainab dopn,

i h ay o achi ong- aing

chang in Aica.

th goba conoic donun o

cn onh, ooing a i did h

aaing inaion in goba ood and

u pic, undin h uncain

i in hich i. Nonh, i

i o ping and ugn han

o u o pay ou pa, and hp h

pop o Aica o ha hy can onc

and o a cap h poy ap in

hich hy ha id o a oo ong.

s Hp Aica i indbd o a ho

ho ha uppod u o h ya.

wihou hi uppo ou ok oud

no b poib. w ha achid aga da in h pa qua cnuy,

and ha abiiou pan o di

o poga o o pop in

h uu.

w hop ha you i join on hi

jouny, a k o aiz ou iion

o an Aica ha i o poy

and hung in h ya o co.

You incy,

ray Jodan

Chie Executive

A brighter uture or Aricas Hp Aica i a ua dopn agncy ha ok in couni in sub-

sahaa, o ipo h i o Aica poo pop.

Sel Help Arica works with local sta, partners and local communities in Ethiopia, Eritrea,

Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Togo and Burkina Faso -

Enabling people to grow enough ood so that they can eed themselves all year round

Improving opportunities or people to earn a living and support their amilies

Providing Aricans with the skills they need to move out o poverty, and manage their

utures

Improving access to basic social services such as clean drinking water, health-care, and

education.

Supporting local communities to preserve and rehabilitate their natural environment

Through advocacy, partnerships, dissemination, and best practice, seek to inuence

policies and attitudes in both Arica and the West, to issues That aect the lives o

rural Aricans.

Sel Help Arica has ambitious plans - to eect change, and deliver more support to more

people. Support us as we seek to provide more Aricans with the training, the skills, and the

tools to lead a lie ree rom hunger, poverty and need.

Sel Help Arica at work

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5 kenya hoRn oFaFRICa

6 eRItRea

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foreword

challenges and opportunities

self help africa newsletter 2008 3

th hioic ingaion a u o

Ha Hp and s Hp Dopn

Innaiona o ca s Hp Aica ha

abihd a n and iban ogania-

ion hich can ak an n ga

conibuion in ocoing poy and

hung in Aica.

Our dynamic sta and partners throughout our

nine countries o operation in Arica are doing

antastic work supporting rural amilies and

communities work their way out o poverty.

We are seeing success in all our areas o opera-

tion and one o our major challenges or theyears ahead is to build on that success. We

have a proven track record o success over

nearly a quarter o a century but the challeng-

es still remain at every level o our operations.

As an organisation our shared vision is to see

an Arica ree rom poverty and hunger. We re-

main frmly committed to the philosophies and

ethos which were instrumental in the ounding

o both Harvest Help and Sel Help Develop-

ment International.

Our ambition is to dramatically build upon this

proven success by scaling up our own work

and as importantly by sharing our knowledge

with other organisations. I we are to see real

and lasting development in Arica we need

to work in more eective collaboration with

like minded organisations and inuence policy

change at all levels.

Focu

The global spike in world ood prices during

2008 put into sharp ocus the critical impor-

tance o ood production or the worlds poor.

As a consequence o this crisis, and the ood ri-

ots that erupted in many parts o the develop-ing world, our major international institutions

were prompted to acknowledge the crucial

role that rural agriculture had to play in eorts

An Historic Merger

to reduce global poverty.

The Secretary General o the UN Ban Ki-Moon

singled out the role to be played by small-hold-

ing armers, when he addressed an emergency

summit that was convened by the United Na-

tions in Rome to address the crisis, last July.

The UKs Arica Progress Panel joined the

chorus, when it called or substantial new in-

vestment to raise agricultural productivity and

increase ood production in Arica and around

the world, while Irelands Hunger Task Force

identifed improving smallholder productivity

in Arica as the number one priority, when it

published its report at the conclusion o more

than a year o deliberation, in September.

Ou wok

The role o ood production at arm house-

hold, and at community levels, has been at the

heart o the work o Sel Help Arica since themid-1980s.

It will remain central to our mission, as we

work side by side with Arican communities,

th Fuu

Sel Help Arica is now working directly, and with local partners, in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zambia, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, Ghana, Togo and

Burkina Faso.

We are committed to delivering the very best practice to our development programmes, and to sharing the experiences and the learning

o the past into the uture.

We look orward also to establishing new alliances in our bid to tackle the enormous challenge o global poverty and hunger, and to

working to a common purpose with others engaged in development, to achieve this goal.Sel Help Arica is grateul to the committed supporters and donors who have been a key part o the organisation or the last quarter o

a century. Your support is essential to the ongoing growth o Sel Help Arica, and we look orward to being in touch with you again in

2009.

From left : Steve Langdon, UK director, Ray Jordan, CEO, Nigel Clarke, UK chairman, and Tom Corcoran, Irish

chairman, at the launch of Self Help Africa, in London, last Summer.

to help them to achieve better incomes, better

living conditions, and better opportunities or

their amilies, in the years to come.

These opportunities are being created or

thousands o rural Arican amilies each day,

as a result o the ongoing work o Sel Help

Arica and its partners. Simple, but eective

measures are enabling households to double

and treble incomes, by ensuring better quality

seed stock is available, by promoting new

crop varieties, by supporting alternate income

generating activities, access to credit, and by

helping small-scale armers to organize into

local co-operatives, to market and sell their

produce.

Improving access to health services, to clean

water, to better sanitation, and to education

is also making an important contribution -

strengthening local services so that uture gen-

erations in Arica can enjoy better standards ohealth, a reduction in lie threatening disease,

and the passport to a better uture that can be

provided by education.


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horn of africa

ethiopia/eritrea

s Hp Aica ha bn oking in

ethIopIao co o a qua cnuy,haing bgin i aciii in h couny

in h idia aah o h ib

ain o 1984. th oganiaion od

o ingad ua dopn agy

od in h couny, and in h pa

25 ya s Hp ha ipnd

o a dozn aa bad dopn

poga in h couny. In cn

ya s Hp Aica ha ocud ga

anion and ouc on au o

buid h ucua capaciy o oca a-

co-opai, and i ngagd in an

abiiou pan o o ou uainab -

goning aing and cdi co-opai

in ehiopia.

EthiopiaSel Help Arica has its most extensive pro-

gramme o activities in Ethiopia, where there

are currently our area based rural develop-

ment projects, and two additional regional

projects being implemented which are de-

signed to strengthen and develop structures

or agricultural co-operatives, and support

the creation o rural savings and credit co-

operatives in the country.

The integrated area based programmes

(ABPs), ocus primarily on developing sustain-

able agricultural systems at arm household

level, strengthen social service provision,

and tackle the degradation o the countrysnatural resources. These fve year projects are

being implemented at Sodo, Bora and Huruta

in Oromia, and in the countrys Eastern High-

lands at Alemaya, outside Harar town.

The agricultural co-operatives have supported

armers organisations with the production,

promotion and marketing o diversifed

income generating crops including potatoes,

highland ruit and cereals, while measures to

strengthen existing inrastructure, and add

value and quality to dairy production, and to

Eritrea

Sel Help Arica has two area

based development pro-

grammes in Eritrea - at Gogne,

in the west, and at Emni Haili

in the south o the country.

The Gogne programme began

in 2006, while the Emni Haili

programme started in 2004.

Both programmes ocusprimarily on water develop-

ment activities, with irrigation

an essential component in

eorts to promote crop diversifcation, and

to strengthen ood productivity and income

generation in rural areas where drought is a

constant threat. Agricultural extension has

also been a central component.

Alongside measures to support and develop

arming systems in the country, Sel Help A-

rica is also engaged in supporting a national

beekeeping development programme, which

seeks to promote and strengthen apiculture

activities across the country.

Sel Help Arica has plans or a new develop-

ment programme at Elabared, and baseline

Children look forward to the opening of Legeba School,

that opened in Self Helps Huruta project, last year.

livestock production, are also underway.

Sel Help Aricas micro-fnance programme

has supported the establishment o more

than 110 primary savings and credit co-oper-

atives which have to date enabled more than

13,000 people to access loans to start income

generating activities. Five regional co-opera-

tive unions, to oversee and administer these

primary SACCOs, have also been created.

studies or this have been undertaken.

The ocus o this work will again be on

sustainable arming production, measures to

support the development o irrigated arm

and horticultural production and activities de-

signed to build local economic capacity andstrengthen existing social service provision.

Measures to raise awareness and combat

the spread o HIV/AIDS are also built into all

project activities in the country.


A bore hole dug by Self Help Africa in Southern Eritrea is

serving more than 3,000 villagers in the lowland area.

A ii o h ho by h couny pidn

a an occaion ha i i ong in h

oy o Ha wadaaia.shoy a buiding o h n ho had

bn copd, h eian ido and

oh o h gon chidn cid a

ii o Pidn Iia Ak, ho a

on buin in h aa. H had ha I had

and h inco and had bui a n ho,

and ca and paid o y o, h

aid.

Ha wadaaia aid h und o buid

h ho o h ony h aid o

ania aning, and o aing h oxn

o hp h pough hi fd.

I ook a oan o a aing and cdi co-op

up by s Hp, and a f buying and

aing ab o a, I bough y an

oxn. I no ha h oxn, h aid.

s Hp Aica i on o ju

a handu o innaiona dopn

agnci oking in eRItRea, a counyha ha puud a pah o -dina-

ion inc i cud i indpndnc o

nighbouing ehiopia, in h ay 1990.

I i a couny ha ac conidab d-

opn chang bcau o i hahcia and difcu ain. th UN Food

and Agicuu Oganiaion ia

ha a any a 1.7 iion pop ac

ood incuiy in h cun ya.


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s Hp Aica ok in kenyaoh pa dcad ha ocud piaiy on

uppoing a-hoding a o in-

ca agicuua poduciiy and boo

a houhod inco.

Bu ajo pog ha ao bn ad in

oh aa, incuding ih h pooion

o bkping a a au o ipo

houhod inco, and ih aining and

aan au dignd o ncou-

ag a aii o diiy hi acii-

i.

s Hp Aica ha ao ad ipoan

poicy conibuion on iu uch a Na-

iona land Poicy, on Foy and wa

Poicy, and on h Naiona Acion Pan o

h pooion o Huan righ.

Kenya

Sel Help Arica, which

marked its 10th anniversary

in Kenya, ound many o its

activities disrupted during the

civil disturbances which ol-

lowed the countrys conten-

tious national elections, last

year.

Many activities planned or

early 2008 could not take

place because o the widespread unrest,

and signifcant eorts had to be made to re-

engage with local communities, when peace

and stability returned.Sel Help Arica began its operations in Kenya

in partnership with Baraka Agricultural Col-

lege outside Molo in Rit Valley Province.

This successul partnership enabled the or-

ganisation to undertake a successul rural de-

velopment programme in the Kamara/Tenges

area, and through outreach supported a

beekeeping development programme which

has enabled thousands o arm households

and community groups to begin beekeeping

and associated activities in Nakuru, Bomet,

Uganda

Torrential rains which

caused widespread and

destructive ooding

in the east o Uganda

caused another major

setback to Sel Help

Aricas Amuria Project,

last year.

One o three extensivearea based rural devel-

opment programmes

being implemented

in the country, the

Amuria project saw many o its development

gains undone, ooding wiped away houses,

destroyed crops, and displaced thousands o

amilies rom their homes.

It was the second major disruption or Sel

Help in Amuria, ollowing the incursion by

rebels which orced the suspension o the

project in 2003-2004.

Elsewhere, 30,000 households in the Kamuli

project area were supported with the dis-

tribution o cassava, groundnut, maize and

upland rice seed, our depots were built or

Kericho, Koibatek and Baringo districts.

Sel Help Arica also runs its own integratedrural programme at Gilgil, although this too

was adversely aected by the civil disturbanc-

es which ollowed the national elections.

A number o valuable new strategic partner-

ships were orged during the year including

with Australia Aid (AusAid) on a drip irriga-

tion scheme in Gilgil, and with Irish agency

Gorta on a ood and livelihood programme in

the same region.

The organisation has plans or new area

based projects in Kenya.

the collection and storage o grain, and 31

bore holes, providing clean water or nearly

25,000 people, were dug.

In the Kayunga project area over 300 arms

started multiplication o cassava, more than

1200 households have been supported with

beans, rice and maize seed, hundreds started

poultry production, and over 630 pit latrines

were constructed at household level since the

project started 18 months ago.

Passion fruit production in Kenya has enabled

hundreds of households to increase their income.


Building a grain depot in Kamuli

ebuu i going o b a and o ik and

hony, jok Hay thuko, h cay o

Uhindi Daiy Goup in h ebuu diiiono Knya Gigi diic. On o 30 b

o h goup o ha ad daiy poduc-

ion, Hay ay ha any o hi b

a no iking hi ania h i a

day inc ciing aining in daiy poduc-

ion, odd dopn and zo-gazing

chniqu, and oh hod o s

Hp Aica.

No, goup b a ooking a oh

ay o nghn hi aning po, and

ha bgin aining in bkping anag-

n, hi conucion, and hony poduc-

ion, ih a i o inoducing a n n-

pi on hi a-ca a a ebuu.

s Hp Aica ha h xni

aa bad dopn pojc in

uganda a Auia in h noh-a,Kaui diic o h noh o h capia

Kapaa, and a Kayunga, noh o Ka-

paa on h bank o h ri Ni. th

pojc ai o ok ih a oa o 70,000

ua houhod duing hi f ya

dopn cyc, ih h piay ocu

on ood poducion, ipoing acc o

a and aniaion, uppoing ocia

ic poiion, and incaing h capac-

iy o oca counii o ipo hi

i and cicuanc. to n aa

bad pojc a cuny bing pannd

o Uganda.

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west africa

burkina faso/ghana/togo

s Hp Aica abihd a couny

ofc in w Aica in 2007, o co-odina

ok ih oca pan in ghana andtogo, and o pan o h conc-n o n pio pojc in nighbouing

buRkIna Faso.th w Aican ok a f ad

in Ghana and togo in h a 1980. th

ain ocu i on doping uainab

aing y, buiding oca capaciy,

and ipoing acc o a can dink-

ing a.

Focu i ao pacd on uppoing h

dopn o oca goup, buiding

hi capaciy and poiding h ih

ouc and pacica uppo.

West AfricaSel Help Arica has been working in West

Arica since 2005, when the organisation

took charge o a number o local develop-

ment projects being undertaken in Northern

Ghana and Togo by the now deunct UK

charity TRAX.

The organisation established a West Arica

ofce in 2007, and in mid-2008 extended its

work to neighbouring Burkina Faso.

A region o extreme poverty, this part o

West Arica also had to contend with urther

adversity in 2007 when some areas endured

extreme ooding during seasonal rains,

while other regions experienced no rainallat all - and the consequent drought led to

widespread crop ailure. Sel Help Aricas

programmes in West Arica are all imple-

mented by local partner organisations, whose

primary ocus is on improving ood and liveli-

hood security or poor rural amilies.

We are actively involved in orging links with

locally based NGOs and community based

organisations, and in measures to strengthen

the capacity and structures o local CBOs

so that they can more eectively meet the

challenges that their communities are acing.

Current activities include projects at Dapoang

in Northern Togo, unded by the UKs Big Lot-

tery, at Bolatanga, Ghana and in

Burkina Faso.

Sustainable arming technologies and ood

production are the primary ocus o work in

each o these areas.

Boukari Mooli produces soya bean paste in Togo.

Jayen Jinwake with the ground level that he uses for building in Ghana.

Lare Kantchil is pictured beside the bund he has built

to prevent soil erosion on his farm in Togo.

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Duu Bkanang joind hi iag a

goup in nohn togo a nub o ya

ago. H had aia o ony o in

in ipoing h po on hich h coud a,and ao had a pob ih oi oion du-

ing h ainy aon.

Duu and and ind o h a

goup a hy aind in a nub o

pacica aing hod, and abou

poducing hi on copo, conucd

on bund o o h a and hu op

oion, and bgan o go a nub o n

cop.

In h pa I an poducing nough on h

a o d y aiy a ya aound, h

ca. th a aay a gap o hung

o on o h onh y ya. tha ha

no changd. H coninu o go aiz,bu no ao uppn hi inco, and

hi aiy di by going ban in h dy

aon.


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southern africa

malawi/zambia

malawI i h on Aican po-ga couny h s Hp Aica

ha had o aagaa i poga

aciii ooing h ingaion o s

Hp Dopn Innaiona (sHDI)

and Ha Hp, in su 2007.

A a u o hi unifcaion h ogania-

ion no ha opaion in boh h ouh

and h noh o h couny, a o hich

ha a ocu on pooing and ipn-

ing uainab agicuua y.

Malawi

Sel Help Arica has two area

based fve-year development

projects in Southern Malawi,

and a urther series o rural

livelihood projects in the north

o the country, as part o the

FAIR alliance (in conjunction

with the UK charity Find Your

Feet and the Development

Fund o Norway).

SHA began 2007 with our area based

programmes in the south, but two o these

at Nsondole and Kaphuka were completed

during the year, while two new projects atMasumbankhunda and Kalembo were started

in the Lilongwe and Balaka districts respec-

tively.

The primary ocus o these two area projects,

and o the work being undertaken as part

o the FAIR partnership in the north is on

sustainable agriculture, and on measures to

increase ood production and income levels.

Measures to build the capacity o local com-

munities, and community based organisations

is incorporated into these programmes, along

Zambia

Area specifc development projects imple-

mented by local Zambian partners are at the

heart o programme activities that have been

undertaken by Sel Help Arica in Zambia

since the mid-1980s.

Sustainable agriculture and measures to

support the development o micro-enterprise

are central to work that local partners are

undertaking in Mpika, Chibombo, Chipapa,and in the countrys Western, North-Western

and Eastern Provinces.

In a country where approximately two thirds

o people survive on less than one US-dollar a

day, the ocus and emphasis o much o the

work being carried out by Sel Help Aricas

local partners has been on improving agricul-

tural production at arm household level.

The programme has extended its reach into

other areas, including providing support or

the development o seed growers asso-

ciations, providing business skills training,

supporting village banks, developing sae and

clean sources o drinking water, and introduc-

ing measures designed to manage wetland

areas in a sustainable manner.

with steps to address the challenges pre-

sented by HIV/AIDS, and by natural resourcedepletion.

FAIR projects are underway in Northern Ma-

lawi at Rumphi, Simlemba, Lupenbe, Mzuzu

and Ntchisi. The FAIR programme is delivered

through local NGO and government partners,

with the FAIR ofce providing support in pro-

gramme delivery, as well as playing a role in

capacity building. Sel Help Aricas southern

area based projects are carried out by local

sta working in partnership with local com-

munities and government line ministries.

Networks which bring together sta rom

dierent partner organisations have also

been orged, while measures to develop the

organisational capacity o emerging local

partners is central to Sel Help Aricas uture

strategy or the country.

Sel Help Arica has orged a number o val-

ued unding partnerships or its programmes

in Zambia, including with DFID on a Rights

to Seed project, with the European Union,

and with CARE Zambia on a Programme or

Reduction o Vulnerability in the countrys

Eastern Province.

Namasani Chindhenga irrigates his mustard crop in

Kaphuka, Malawi.


Modrine Ntantinisha at her goat pen in Chipapa

John Zuu i a y aci and nhuiaic

couniy oun. Duing h f ya

o h ean Poinc poga h had

aady uppod h ok o o han

300 pop in Chiob and nighbouing i-

ag. H ao ha hi on and and a

3 ha ach ya.

I a y ind in bing y i and

iing y aiy ou o poy. I ha anuch abou aing aing a a buin.

I can b a ay o aking ony o buy h

hing y aiy nd, pciay ducaion

o y chidn.

Ho, i i no oh ying o do hi

aon - I nd y nighbou o ipo hi

o oo. I hy don, and I uccd in aning

o ony, hy i ony b a y doo

aking o hp o aing o y fd and

I i ain poo.

w u a ok ogh o can g

ahi ogh.

wha John au o i aning. H h n knodg gaind abou d u-

ipicaion, iock aing and uainab

agicuu a a oo o boh hp hi and

hi couniy.

s Hp Aica ha a id anging

nok o oca pan ngagd in

ipning dopn pojc in

zambIa.th oganiaion i cuny oking ih

oca pan in h ea, w, and Noh

o h couny, ih pooion and up-

po o uainab ood poducion a hha o i ok. s Hp Aica oca

pan anag h pojc, ih chni-

ca uppo o h oganiaion had

ofc in h capia, luaka.


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fundraising (ireland)

supporters play a vital role


Mountains to climb among other thingsFriends o Sel Help Arica have taken part

in a host o events and activities to support

our work over the past year. Here are just

some o the activities to have taken place:

Dubliner Hugh Chaloner raised thousands o

euro in sponsorship when he climbed Mount

Kilimanjaro in support o Sel Help Arica in

September just over a year ater a group o

Irish aeronautical engineers had summited A-

ricas highest mountain, to support our work.

More than 15 teams rom across the country

took part in Sel Helps annual Carlow Gol

Classic in May; close to a dozen runners tookpart in the Ladies Mini Marathon in June;

Miriam Enright and her husband Padraig

raised thousands when they both successully

completed the Dublin City Marathon in Oc-

tober; dozens o children rom Clonmel and

rom Dungarvan took to the stage or schools

music estivals in late Spring; and during the

Summer Mayo man Anthony Walshe raised

thousands with a horse auction.

The Skerries-Sodo community group contin-

ued their und-raising events to support Sel

Help Arica and Kilkenny man Hugh Bergin

fnally returned home ater more than a

year and a hal circumnavigating Arica on a

solo motorbike trip which took him throughmore than 20 countries and raised more than

E20,000 or Sel Help Arica.

Help plant the seedso change

Sel Help Aricas Help plant the seedso change campaign brought the organisa-

tion to the attention o hundreds o clubs,

organisations, businesses, and schools across

the country in Autumn 2008, and succeeded

in raising public unding support or our

work. Co-ordinators across the 26 counties

liaised with local clubs and other bodies, and

staged a broad range o events and activities

including charity balls, gol classics, talent

contests, quizzes, sporting challenges and art

competitions.

The centre-piece event was Irelands very frst

National Sandwich Day on Friday, November

14. On that date, clubs and organisations

bought and sold sandwiches to their riends

and colleagues, and donated the proceeds

to Sel Help Arica. National Sandwich Day

was supported by Pat the Baker, who

contributed ree bread and promoted the

event on more than one million loaves that it

produced.

Barbara Gill

Memorial FundThe amily o the late Barbara Gillraised in excess o 100,000 or Sel Help

Arica in memory o the development

education teacher, ollowing her tragic and

untimely death in 2007.

Friends and colleagues o Barbara donated

to the campaign which culminated in

Barbaras parents Margaret and William

travelling to Eritrea in October 2008 and

ormally opening a new school which they

unded in her memory.

Travelling out to Eritrea was an extremelyemotional journey or us. Although it was

tinged with sadness, we took great heart

and great encouragement rom the smiles

and expressions o the children and their

teachers, said Margaret.

Valued supportersSel Help Arica continued to build valued

partnerships with a number o undingsupporters rom at home and abroad. The or-

ganisation is indebted to the Irish government

or its continued support, and to bodies such

as Family Foundation, One51 Charitable Trust,

Bewleys Foundation, Gorta, The Alphabet

Ball, and many more or their backing.

We are also grateul or the support o the

Irish Farmers Association and its members,

who provide us with support across the coun-

try, and to the many other volunteers who

lend us their time and their eorts each year.

Field VisitMore than 60 Irish supporters have

traveled to Arica on und-raising trips to

support the work and see the develop-

ment programmes in action in the past

year. A group o around 30 travelled to

Kenya in the Autumn o 2007, while a

similar sized group went on a feld visit to

Ethiopia in October o this year. Partici-

pants und-raised to take part in these

trips, while the Kenya 07 visitors supple-

mented their eorts when they raised a

urther E25,000 in donations, to upgrade

a local school, ollowing their visit.

Donegal man Albert Doherty (below) said

that the trip to Kenya had opened my

eyes, and showed me the real challenges

that people in Arica ace on a day to day

basis. It was an incredible experience.


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fundraising (uk)


Two supporters got on their bikes and

cycled in South America to raise money or

Sel Help Arica. Sophie Corbett and HayleyRobinson rode or 11 days rom the Andes to

Amazon, raising more than 2400.

Sophie recalls, We both wanted to support

the work o our avourite charity by doing

something totally dierent. In the months

beore the trip, I was inspired to get ft, and

we had a great time undraising or it by

organising a hog roast, car boot sales and col-

lecting sponsorship rom riends and amily.

We covered the cost o the trip ourselves, so

the money we raised rom riends and amily

went directly to Sel Help Arica.

On the plane to South America, the reality

o cycling or 11 days, and sometimes at an

altitude higher than 4,500 metres really hit

home. But once we set o, there was no

time or cold eet. We hopped on our bikes

and climbed out o Cusco, along the Sacred

Valley o the Incas, beore a fnal tough climb

to Tres Cruces, and into the rainorest o the

Manu Biosphere Reserve.

Sophie and Hayley werent the only sup-

porters to get on their bikes to support Sel

Help Arica. Suolk man Charley Caiger

and a group o riends mounted up or aremarkable 2,000 mile cycle through Brittany,

France, last Summer and raised more than

1000 in sponsorship.

Saddling up Speaking up or Sel Help Arica

Hands o Hope Harvest CampaignEvery year, we produce Harvest Festival resources and inormation specially designed or

churches. Over 1,400 congregations used this years pack, The Hands o Hope, at their

Harvest services.

Two long standing UK supporters traveled

to Zambia to experience at frst hand howSel Help Arica is changing lives. John and

Margaret Ward have since become members

o our Ambassadors scheme in the UK, and

are busy planning talks and events to raise

awareness about our work.

Margaret and I have supported Sel Help

Arica since the late 1980s. We had initially

wanted to support the Gwembe Valley Project

on the shores o Lake Kariba because we

used to teach in a school near there, explains

John Ward.

We continued our support or a growing

Sel Help Arica because o the impressive na-

ture and quality o the work. The principles o

sel-help, sel-reliance and sel-determination

have been consistent hallmarks, he added.

Travelling to Zambia on a act fnding feld

visit with a group o nine other support-

ers, John Ward says we were enormously

impressed and encouraged by the commit-ment, skill and hard work o the project sta

and the people. Listening to them not only

confrmed in our own minds the eective

nature o Sel Help Aricas approach, but

encouraged us to try to do more to help.

We are currently thinking about how we

might achieve this as Sel Help Arica Ambas-

sadors, speaking to groups in and around

the Hampshire area to raise the profle o Sel

Help Arica and its work.

Ou nok o Abaado aco h UK ha bn oking had o ai aan abou ou

ok by giing ak and pnaion o hi oca chuch, goup and choo. Abaado

ao uppo s Hp Aica by oganiing oca n, aking pa in ponod un, hoing

co oning, ing ou chandi and uch o. I you you oud b ind

in uppoing u in any o h aa o i you ha you on ida pa conac h ofc.

w poid aining and ongoing uppo o a ou oun. w nd n abaado

copinay pack hich incud undaiing ida, pnaion, a, and oh ouc

o g ad. e-ai u on : [email protected] o fnd ou o.

Pnop sok ha bn an abaado o abou 3 ya. Pnop gi ak a oca choo,

chuch and goup, and uppo s Hp Aica by hping ou a ai and oh n.

Monty DonIt is with some

sadness that

we report that

broadcaster and

gardener Monty

Don has stepped

down as the patron

o Sel Help Arica.

We are extremely

grateul to Montyor his commitment to the organisation, and

wish him a ull and speedy recovery rom his

recent illness.

Bupa RunWhy not enter the 2009 Bupa London

10,000, and support the work o Sel Help

Arica at the same time. We have a limited

number o places available or the 2009 event

in London, so i you are interested, please

contact us at [email protected], and

fnd out more.

I you are a member o a UK afliated

athletics club the cost o entry is 23, and or

non-club members its 25. Next years BUPALondon 10k Run takes place on Bank Holiday

Monday 25th May, starting and fnishing in

St. Jamess Park.


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development education

students engaging with the issues


th Aica Ai poga i a ga oppouniy o bing h ok o s Hp Aica and h iu

ha ac counii in poy ino h caoo. Ou guiding pincip i panhip ih udn,

ach and choo o hp h ak h chang hy ncay in an unqua od.

O h pa dcad ha had h oppouniy o houand o choo go o hundd ochoo and ha had any ngaging okhop, udn d capaign, ading ii o counii

in Aica, choo nok cad and naining n in caoo aco Iand. th iu cod by ou

Dopn educaion poga a hugy ipoan o udn oday. thy an o kno, hy an o undand,

and o o a hy an o pay hi pa, and ok o achi a ai and a o ju od o a. w a hping

h o ak chang ha i ac hi choo, aii and counii o achi a chang o h uu.

For close to a decade Sel Help Arica

has run a successul schools education

programme Arica Alive, reaching out to

students and bringing overseas development

and social justice issues into the classroom.

More than 120 schools in Ireland are actively

involved in our our Arica Alive programme

each year, hosting workshops, discussions,

and other events all designed to give uture

generations a deeper understanding o the

issues, the challenges, and the remedies that

exist in our search or a more just and air

world.

Alongside school visits which are co-

ordinated by our Development Education

team, the Arica Alive programme is

also involved in an expansive programme

o networking activities, and participates

alongside other like-minded NGOs in a

variety o partnership projects, including

a Millennium Development Goals (MDG)

campaign in Brussels alongside 80:20

and Concern, in the Irish Aid supported

Worldwise schools linking scheme, and in

such orums as IDEA the Irish Development

Education Association.

Arica Alive making an impact in schools

Workshops create partnerships

Sel Help Arica welcomed a new member to the Development Education team in

2008, as Miriam OConnell rom Clonmel joined the organisation as the organiser o

Arica Alives programme in Munster.

Sel Help Arica played a role in develop-

ing a number o new resources or Develop-

ment Education during the year, including

an Ethiopian schools text book that was

developed in association with South Dublin

County Council, a new adult education text

book Aontas, and new resources or use in

Transition Year, and CSPE classes. School

partners at St. Peters o Dunboyne, and atColaiste Bhride in Carnew are soon to pub-

lish a book on the Millennium Development

Goals (MDGs) that they have worked on in

partnership with Sel Help Arica.

BT Scientist Winnervisits Ethiopia

2008 was the third year or the joint Irish

Aid and Sel Help Science or Development

Award at the annual BT Young Scientists

Exhibition in Dublin, a trophy and travel

bursery that was won this year by 18 year

old Kilkenny student Tara McGrath.

Tara subsequently travelled on Sel Help A-

ricas annual schools study visit to Ethiopia,

where her eorts to feld test her uel-

efcient cooking stove invention was the

subject o a television documentary My Big

Idea, which was broadcast on the national

airwaves.

Social InnovatorsSel Helps Development Education

programme again participated in thenational Young Social Innovators event at

the RDS in Dubllin, advanced its partnership

in a Transition Year Development Course that

reached out to more than 30 schools in our

network centres around the country, and

extended its links during the year with the

Diseases o Poverty consortium project at

NUI Maynooth.


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finance

2008 income & expenditure


Fu audid accoun o h inco and xpndiu o s Hp Aica o 2008 i

b pubihd, and aaiab in a sping 2009. th accoun i b ad aaiab

on qu o ou ofc in Iand o h Unid Kingdo, o o donoad o ou

b-i a .hpaica.co.

In the meantime, the fnancial inormation presented below reects the income, and the

programme expenditure or Sel Help Arica in the calendar year to September, 2008.

More than E5.35 million (4.3 million stg) has been invested directly in Arican development

programmes in that period, ollowing the integration to create Sel Help Arica.

The organisations largest programme country is Ethiopia, which has received E1.76 million

(1.4 million), while the second largest country programme is Zambia, where nearly E900,000

(720k) has been invested to the end o the third quarter.

In Sel Help Aricas other Arican countries the programme investment or the nine month

period to the end o September, 2008 is Malawi E684k (552k), Uganda E610k (492k),

Kenya E577k (465k), EritreaE398k (321k), and West Arica E210k (169k).

trUsts/

FOUNDAtIONs

mANAGemeNt

sUPPOrt

PUBlIC

INCOme

BUsINess

sUPPOrt

ICCO

OrGANIsAtIONAl

DevelOPmeNt

UNDP &

FAO

reseArCH &

DevelOPmeNt

stAtUtOrY

INCOme

DIreCt

CHArItABle

income

stAtUtOrY INCOme 4,868,000 53.5%

3,982,000

trUsts/FOUNDAtIONs 2,813,000 30.9%

2,301,000

PUBlIC INCOme 1,252,000 13.8%

920,000

ICCO

100,000 1.1%81,000

UNDP & FAO 60,000 0.7%

49,000

* Sterling fgures based on exchange rate in Nov 2008

expenditure

DIreCt CHArItABle 5,852,000 82.4%

4,787,000

mANAGemeNt sUPPOrt 595,000 8.0%

486,000

BUsINess sUPPOrt 499,000 7.0%

408,000

OrGANIsAtIONAl DevelOPmeNt 83,000 1.1%

67,900

reseArCH & DevelOPmeNt 43,000 0.5%

35,200

* Sterling fgures based on exchange rate in Nov 2008


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Both the Irish and UK government have introduced a number o taxincentives to encourage both individuals and corporations to actively f-

nancially support charities including Sel Help Arica through donations.

It also enables us to get better value rom your donation without any

additional cost to you. ALL WE NEED IS YOUR PERMISSION!

IrelAND INCREASE YOUR DONATION BY UP TO 69%.

Indiidua: I you are a PAYE only tax payer and donate over 250

per annum, or as little as 22 per month, Sel Help will beneft

rom tax relie rom the Irish Government. This makes the value o

your donation to Sel Help considerably greater than your original

contribution.This only applies to personal donations you have made

and not to money raised through sponsorship.

Sel Help Arica can reclaim an extra 69% o the value o your do-

nations i you are a higher rate taxpayer o 41% and an extra 25%

i you are on the standard rate o 20%.

exap 1

250 total donation at 41% Higher Rate Tax becomes 423.72

250 x 100/59 = 423.72

423.72 - 250 = 173.72

exap 2

250 total donation at 20% Standard Rate Tax becomes

312.50

250 x 100/80 = 312.50

312.50 - 250 = 62.50

Once a year Sel Help Arica automatically mails a tax relie orm to

all individual Sel Help Arica donors whose donations qualiy or a

tax reclaim. Simply complete the orm to Ireland: Sel Help Aricas

Freepost address, s Hp Aica, Annfd Hou, Dubin

road, Poaoi, Co laoi. tphon +353-(0)57 8694034

s Ad /Copoaion: I you are sel-assessed, or a corpo-

ration, you can reclaim the tax paid on your donation(s). You will

need a copy o your donation history to attach to your assessment

orm. You can get your donation history rom Sel Help Aricas

undraising team. You/the company can choose to make a donation

to Sel Help Arica out o the money you reclaim rom the Revenue

Commissioners.

UNIteD KINGDOm: CAN INCREASE YOURDONATION BY 28% BY RECLAIMING TAX FROMTHE GOVERNMENT.

Sel Help Arica can use the Git Aid scheme, administered

by HM Revenue & Customes, to increase your donation to

us by 28%, and it wont cost you a penny.

Indiidua: Git Aid enables us to boost the value o your

donations. For every 1 that you give, we can claim 28p

extra rom HM Revenue & Customs (25p in Git Aid and a

urther 3p in Transitional Relie).

exap

I you decide to give 10 to Sel Help Arica, we will be

able to reclaim an extra 2.80 rom HMRC.

All you need to do is complete a simple declaration

(orally or in writing) confrming that you are a taxpayer

and that you are happy or us to claim tax relie on

your donation. Just one declaration can apply to all

donations that you have made to us over the past 6

years and to any orthcoming gits you make, until younotiy us otherwise. This declaration does not commit

you to give money, it just means that i you do give any

amount to Sel Help Arica, we can claim an extra 28

pence or every 1 you donate back rom HMRC.

s an: I you complete a Sel Assessment tax

return, you can claim tax relie on your donations, enabling

you to reclaim as much as 25p rom the taxman or every

1 donated to charity. You will need to enter the dona-

tions in the git aid box on your Sel Assessment tax return.

This tax rebate can be donated directly to Sel Help Arica

on the same orm. I you have completed a Git Aiddeclaration, then we can increase this payment by an extra

28%. Sel Help Arica is registered or this scheme and our

unique HMRC reerence is PAL42MG.

to ak a dcaaion, o o o inoaion,

pa ii ou bi o gi u a ca a

s Hp Aica,

2nd Foo sui, wga Hou,

Dickn Cou, O Hi lan,

shbuy, sY1 1QU.

tphon +44(0) 1743 277170

Registered Charity No. 298830

Ho do Gi Aid wok?

I you are a UK taxpayer and wish Sel

Help Arica to claim the tax on all dona-

tions you have made or the six years

prior to this year, and all uture donations, until I notiy

otherwise. To qualiy or Git Aid, you must pay an amount

o UK Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax at least equal to

the tax that we reclaims on your donations in the appropri-

ate tax year. Please note that we can only claim git aid i

you have provided your ull address and postcode. Please

let us know i your circumstances or address changes so

that we can update our records.

givi sf h africr ii xr

la ya, caid 69,000/56,000 und boh

h ch.


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What your money can do

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