Newsletter 2010-11

africa makES
progress on
AGRICULTURE

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 ECONOMIC ENPOWERMENT Earlier projects have lasting impact
MAKING A LASTING DIFFERENCE Integrated rural development projects begun
by Self Help Africa in the late nineties have
succeeded in improving incomes and long-
term food security in their areas, according to
found in its savings and credit cooperatives,
where members reported that the oppor-
tunity to borrow credit was life-changing,
sometimes even life-saving, enabling many
Peanut Links
Self Help Africa is set to initiate a new
pilot project in Ethiopia that will seek to
link local farmers with a major interna-

Africa makes progress

Dear Supporter, tional nutrition initiative.
a new independent evaluation. to work their way out of a poverty trap that The project aims to provide high quality
There’s a political slogan The study, which tracked the success of two landlessness, food insecurity and inequity had ingredients to a nutrition company, which

from a few years ago - “A
lot done, more to do” -
that sums up the situation
across Africa today.
In all of the countries in
which Self Help Africa is
working, people’s lives
have improved in the last
decade. There is more food, more trade,
more healthcare and more education.
Communities have been empowered and
they are beginning to enjoy some control
over their futures, by raising loans from
micro-finance co-operatives, by spreading
their risk across a range of crops and
seasons, by trading in cash crops to give
them a safety net when times are bad.
In summary, the continent which for so
long provided so many bad news stories
now has some good ones.
But so much more remains to be done.
Across Africa, one in three people is
hungry, and this impacts on everything
on millennium goals
projects - one in Ethiopia between 1999 and
2005, and the other in Zambia from 1994 to
2005 - was commissioned by Self Help Africa
and carried out by an independent consul-
tant.
The report concluded that in the Ethiopian
project - in Dodota - the growth in household
incomes among beneficiaries was consider-
able and, in some cases, life changing. The
project made a positive contribution to
supporting crop diversity, helping to signifi-
cantly increase the production of maize, teff
and wheat. Productivity fell after the project
ended, but remained above pre-project levels.
In addition, the introduction of drought toler-
ant maize resulted in a threefold increase in
production.
The study also identified long-term success in
seed multiplication, vegetable cultivation and
Ghana is one of the African countries making most progress towards meeting the first MDG - the eradication of
hunger and poverty. Bill Bawasapal is a smallholder farmer in Duusi, Ghana. Self Help Africa is hosting a year- poultry production.
long blog where he talks about his work and his life. Visit www.selfhelpafrica.net/wp to find out more. A major success in the Dodota project was
placed them.
In Zambia, the analysis of lasting outcomes
from the work at Ipongo revealed that its
beneficiaries continued to be comparatively
more food secure than non-beneficiaries, and
were able to enhance their incomes through
diversification into other activities since the
project ended in 2005.
The study also noted that the project compo-
nent with most widespread effectiveness was
the spread of sustainable land management
practices, particularly crop-rotation.
The consultant noted that in both projects,
food security measures were diluted by an
emphasis on integrated rural development,
with the result that project interventions
lacked a critical mass.
Self Help Africa has since moved away from
these traditional integrated projects, towards
a more focused approach on food security
and income generation.
will then be used in the manufacture of
Ready to Use Foods (RUFs).
These RUFs are produced in the form of
a highly-fortified nutritional paste for the
prevention and treatment of malnutrition.
Initially, the project will focus on ground-
nuts (peanuts), before moving on to
include corn and also soya.
The project aims to increase smallholder
farmer income by linking production with
the RUF manufacturer’s needs, and will
also deliver research data on the impact
of this initiative on farmer income.
Self Help Africa has assisted with the
creation of similar large-scale market
linkages for its farmer co-operatives in
Ethiopia in the past – for durum wheat
with a major national producer of pasta,
and with malting barley for a national
brewing company.

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else - from life expectancy to education
to GDP.
In Self Help Africa, we like to say that our
mission is one of ‘economic empowerment
for rural Africa’. It’s about linking people
to strategies that last - that survive
drought and flood, that overcome plant
disease and market fluctuations, and
that will continue to work long after Self
Help Africa has moved on to another
community.
A lot of this work isn’t new, but it
transforms the lives of rural African
communities. In Zambia, we are linking
thousands of farmers to new markets,
with new produce, using locally managed
cooperatives. In Ethiopia, over 30,000
people - most of them women - have
now benefited from loans to grow small
businesses. Our work with women, in
particular, produces remarkable results
within their families and communities, and
it is something which we are keen to grow
even further in the year ahead.
There is no shortage of challenges ahead,
but we are prepared for them. Your
support is vital because, quite simply, it
allows us to help more people. There is
a lot more to do but, with your help, we
know we can do it.
Yours sincerely,
Ray Jordan
Chief Executive
hana and Ethiopia have made
significant progress towards
achieving the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) on
reducing poverty and hunger, according to
new studies. World leaders gathered in New
York recently to review MDG progress, and
heard UN General Secretary Ban Ki Moon
make an impassioned appeal to politicians
and other donors to finish the job that they
started when launching the MDGs a decade
ago. He urged continued investment in
development aid, and asked countries not
“to balance their budgets on the backs of the
poor at a time of recession”.
Of the nine countries in sub Saharan Africa in
which Self Help Africa operates, Ghana and
Ethiopia achieved most in terms of reduction
of hunger and poverty, the first MDG. The
remaining seven ‘SHA’ countries all made
progress towards this goal.
The average proportion of people living
in poverty in Africa declined from 52% in
1990 to 40% in 2008, with strong progress
achieved in a number of countries. Progress
on reducing hunger remains slow – down
from 31% to 28% in the same period.
15 of the 21 poorest performing countries,
measured by the numbers of underweight
children, are from sub-Saharan Africa. In all
of these countries, the share of underweight
children increased over the study period.
A great deal has been achieved in the past
decade to improve the lives of millions of
vulnerable people around the globe. Yet
the global economic crisis and surge in
world food prices in 2008-2009 reversed
some of these gains, and actually pushed
an additional 70 million people into extreme
poverty and hunger in the developing world.
Today, many African countries are
experiencing modest economic growth at a
time of recession in Europe and the United
States. Although this growth is from a low
base, progress has been made, and can be
attributed to a number of factors – including
improved communications technology.
Sustainable agricultural development, which
was placed at the heart of the poverty
reduction initiative launched by President
Barack Obama at the G8 meeting in L’Aquila,
Italy, last year, remains central to global
efforts to end hunger and poverty in the
developing world. This commitment is vital to
hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers
across sub-Saharan Africa, where improved
agricultural research, stronger extension
services, better access to seed, inputs and
irrigation technologies, and the ability to get
farm produce to market is essential.
Agriculture and rural development is a key to
achieving the key millennium development
goal – to halve world hunger and poverty by
2015. With the continuing support of our
institutional, corporate and individual donors,
it is an objective that Self Help Africa and our
many African partners will continue to work
towards in the years ahead.
Cooperation the key to
successful development
Organising rural agricultural communities into In Africa, with its weak state
co-operatives, producer groups and business support services, limited access
associations can play a vital role in enabling to inputs such as seed, tech-
rural farmers to achieve economic empower- nologies and knowledge, and
ment for themselves and for their families. the challenges that result from
Self Help Africa is supporting farmers in this unpredictable weather patterns,
way – mobilizing growers into irrigation poor quality soils, and uncertain-
clubs and commodity groups, supporting ly over land tenure, smallholder
the formation of marketing networks, and farmers face almost insurmount-
developing seed producer and other farmer able obstacles if they work alone
co-operatives, so that small landholders can to try to scale up their activities.
leverage influence, secure better access to By working together that
services, and can mobilise more effectively pattern is changing, and the
and lobby for more beneficial trading terms examples of success are many
on behalf of members. and varied. Seed multipliers harvesting their crop in Ethiopia
self help africa drives co-operatives across africa including:
Ethiopia – Scores of seed multiplication co-operatives are producing good quality seed stock, and thus ensuring that farmers are
getting good quality seed, and at the right time
Zambia – Commodity groups are working together to produce cereals, vegetables and other food products at a scale that allows them
to source wider markets and negotiate prices
Eritrea – Irrigated farmer groups are working together to store collected rainwater and establish large scale irrigated growing
businesses
Uganda - Farmers groups have set up cassava multiplication sites and are distributions cuttings across wide areas
Kenya – Dairy farmers have improved their farming practices, and sourced new markets
Burkina Faso – Rural communities are rehabilitating land, to increase productivity
Malawi – Producer groups have developed alternate income generating activities including fish farming and vegetable production

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 wOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT
Empowering women, powering Africa
Credit scheme hits new heights
Self Help Africa’s rural savings
and credit programme is set to
reach a landmark 30,000
members, this Autumn.
The membership, attached to more than
210 local savings and credit co-operatives
(SACCOs) has been recruited since 2007,
when the rural SACCO five-year development
programme was started in southern Ethiopia.
Operating in both Oromia and Southern
Nations and Nationalities Peoples Region
(SNNPR), the SACCO programme had grown
to 29,770 by mid-2010, and has issued
over 13,000 small loans totaling more than
€750,000 to its members to support small
scale business activities.
214 primary (local) savings and credit co-ops
are being overseen by five overseeing SACCO
Unions – Awash, Keleta, Ifa Boru, Nestanet
Fana and Sidama Chalala - and are promot-
ing small-scale savings amongst rural families,
and disbursing loans to enable households to
develop new sources of income.
Training and support is provided by Self Help
Africa to support SACCO membership to
Growing their way out of poverty
In the five years since the Mihyaw
horticultural group began their
work in Eritrea, they have rebuilt
homes, educated children, bought oxen and
other livestock. They have also invested in
clean water, farm buildings and a wide range
of other household improvements.
It has been a long and transformational jour-
ney for the 20 women members, all mothers
of young families, who first linked up with
Self Help Africa after receiving a diesel pump
from an Early Childhood Development (ECD)
international NGO.
Two of the members of Mihyaw womens horticultural group in Eritrea
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Members of the Fursa Women’s Savings and Credit Co-Op in Huruta, Ethiopia.
administer and run the affairs of the Unions
and primay co-operatives.
The programme specifically targets resource
poor women, who frequently do not have
the opportunity or means to establish their
own income generating enterprises. More
than 63% of current SACCO members are
women.
Rather than utilize the pump as just a labour-
saving device to help them to draw water
from a village well, the members spoke to
Self Help Africa about the other potential
benefits of their new utility, and the Mihyaw
Horticultural Group was born. The group
members leased a five-acre plot of land in
the fertile valley basin from villagers for 2,000
Eritrean Nakfa (€100) a year, and set about
ploughing and digging the land, and prepar-
ing it for cultivation.
They received support from Self Help Africa
with the construction of two shallow wells
and with training in horticultural production,
and were assisted by local government with
the construction of a narrow 2km access road
from the valley to the nearest main road.
The group members have used their irrigated
land to produce chilli, potatoes, cabbage,
swiss chard, onions and garlic, all produce
that they use for household consumption,
and which is sold by members in the local
village market, and is sold to traders to sell in
the bigger market of Mendefera.
A recently completed independent post
project evaluation of work carried out by
Self Help Africa in Ethiopia in the late 1990s
and early 2000s found savings and credit
co-operatives in the Dodota region to have
been hugely successful – enabling women to
start businesses and achieve a high level of
economic independence.
Training helps
savings group
160 women have taken part in an
intensive training course in
advance of the establishment of
new women’s savings and credit co-opera-
tives in remote south-western Eritrea.
The programme, which also provided training
in management, administration and leader-
ship for close to 40 women has been carried
out in the Gogne district of Gash Barka
Region, where Self Help Africa has been
working for the past five years.
The training programme paves the way for
the formation of a number of new member
run savings and credit co-operatives, who will
provide local women with small loans to al-
low them to establish small income generat-
ing enterprises.
Elsewhere, close to 100 women in Gogne
participated in a training course in home eco-
nomics, and a further 30 received training
in the manufacture of fuel efficient cooking
stoves. More than 425 stoves have been pro-
duced and sold by local women in the project
area, in the past three years.
Project targets market gardens
Self Help Africa’s partners in Ghana
have launched a pilot dry season
gardening project specifically targeted
at local women. Members of two producer
groups in Mozio area of Bolgatanga have
received training and equipment, to support
them to produce vegetables on irrigated land
close to their homes.
The group has collectively received equipment
to support them with their activities – includ-
ing treadle pumps, spraying machines and
digging implements, and have also received
seed to begin production of onion, tomato,
cabbage and pepper on their allotments.
Produce that is grown by group members will
be used for domestic consumption and for
sale, and over time the cost of inputs will be
Women rally for change
Togolese womens group celebrate African Women’s Day in song, dance and drama
More than 300 women from over a
dozen rural villages convened recently
for a rally to celebrate African Women’s
Day in north eastern Togo.
‘Women and Leadership was the central
theme of the event, which was organised in
Like Kounkouog village by Self Help Africa’s
local partners TRAX Togo for householders
and women’s groups across the district.
Through song, drama and spoken word, a
series of participating women’s groups deliv-
ered stirring performances to demonstrate
the vital role that women play in local society.
They highlighted the huge demands and the
long hours that women spend working, and
pointed out how traditional customs and
practices still discriminated against women
in the household, on the farm and in other
aspects of local life.
TRAX Togo chairperson Mme Kabissa Confort
said that the women’s day rally provided
repaid by the two groups to SHA’s partners
TRAX Ghana, to allow for the purchase of
new equipment to support similar groupings
elsewhere.
ADDECOL, West African partners of Self Help
Africa in Burkina Faso, are involved in a simi-
lar project, and have helped women mem-
bers of ‘Wenden Kondo (‘God Will Provide’)
group in Dassui with a market gardening
project in their village.
Group secretary Zungrana Awaya says that
their four-acres market garden has allowed
members to generate a new source of
income and has given young people a reason
to stay in the village. ‘My son, who is 17, has
said that he may stay because there is now a
chance to earn a living here,’ she said.
local women with the opportunity to air and
discuss their concerns and helped them find
support to overcome the challenges they
face. ‘The woman have shown just how
much work is expected of them everyday,”
she said, as groups demonstrated in perfor-
mance and song how enormous demands
are placed on them in Togolese society – as
mothers, nurses, cooks, fuel and water gath-
erers, and much more.
Event organizer Yvette Nabebe said that by
speaking out about their lives and their con-
cerns, rural women were taking an important
step in bringing about change in their lives.
‘Gender inequality is a daily challenge for
many women in rural Togo, and it will not
change overnight. But change is taking place,
and events like this help women to under-
stand that it is not a problem just for them
– it is a part of a wider issue that needs to be
tackled in society.’
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Zungrana Awaya in her vegetable garden
Lives rebuilt
Many of the members of Mwireri
Women’s Group in Kenya tell a
similar story - of destroyed homes,
crops burned and property lost during the
ugly political violence that marred Kenya’s
national elections nearly three years ago.
Most of the 31 Mwireri women spent nearly
two years in Government refugee camps set
up to protect communities affected by ethnic
clashes.
When calm was restored they moved to
‘transitional camps’ from where they could
travel daily back to their homesteads, and
begin repairs and replanting, and start to
rebuild their homes and past lives again.
The Mwireri Women’s Group began working
with Self Help Africa in Spring 2010,
supporting the group with the establishment
of a ‘revolving fund’ savings scheme that
allowed them to buy household essentials,
and begin new crop production on their land.
Each of the participating members received
seed and fertilizer to support a one acres crop
of seed potato, and also began planting and
growing garden peas on their land.
A scarcity of clean seed stock from the
agricultural development co-op in nearby
Molo has been identified by the Mwireri
members as an opportunity, and they are
optimistic that their new project will both
meet the need locally for good quality seed,
and also provide a valuable source of income
for their members.
“theThe group was supported with
establishment of a ‘revolving
fund’ savings scheme that
allowed them to buy household
essentials,and begin new crop
production on their land “
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 access to seed/training
farm learning a key to growth
Agents reach new farms
150 voluntary community agents are working in 34 parishes in Kumi-Bukedea
A network of local community
development agents (CDAs) is being
deployed by Self Help Africa to roll
out the distribution of improved quality seed
and a programme of sustainable farming
practices, at the Kumi-Bukedea project in
Northern Uganda.
More than 150 voluntary CDAs have been
recruited since the project was started in late
2008. Through this network activities are be-
ing promoted at local level to more than 34
parishes across seven sub-counties.
In five years, it is expected that the project
will reach upwards of 27,000 households.
The community development agents, who
are themselves small scale farmers involved
in project activities, are the primary driver of
work at local level.
They receive ongoing mentoring and support
Zambian villagers multiply seed
Ensuring that there was seed
stock available to plant when it
was needed was what prompted
brothers Louis and Evans Mwachiaba to team
up with other farmers in the village of Chiala
in Lusaka Province, Zambia, and form their
own seed multiplication group.
Growers of cereals, as well as tomatoes, cab-
bage, rape, green beans and other vegetables
on an irrigated plot that they inherited from
their late father, a former village chief, the
brothers say that although the allotment pro-
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in their work from agricultural officers on
secondment from the Ministry of Agriculture.
One of the primary focuses of the Kumi-
Bukedea Project has been the promotion of
a range of food production activities, and
specifically the promotion of improved quality
groundnut and cassava amongst household-
ers in the area.
To achieve this the community development
agents identified local ‘seed multiplier’ farm-
ers in each parish, and provided them with
planting materials secured by Self Help Africa
from local agricultural research stations. 716
acres of cassava multiplication sites have since
been established, and a further 463 acres of
groundnut seed multiplication is taking place.
CDAs were given bicycles last year to extend
the areas they could cover.
vides them with three crops each year, the
scarcity of good quality seed had hindered
their progress.
Forming a small seed multiplication enterprise
with 23 other farmers in the area, they have
been producing beans and maize seed that
they sell locally for the past two years.
The group has received support from Self
Help Africa’s local partners OPAD with the
multiplication and storage of seed, and with
accessing markets where they can sell this
valuable new commodity.
Co-op enjoys
new growth
Woodgate Agricultural
Co-Operative is one of 16 local
seed production co-ops
established with the support of Self Help
Africa in Ethiopia, in 2009.
Technical support, training and assistance
was provided to Woodgate’s 52 founder
members, to enable them to establish a
commercial seed multiplication enterprise in
the rural Butajira area of Gurage District.
Members designated portions of their
farmland to the production of basic wheat
seed alongside their traditional crops.
From foundation stock provided by Self Help
Africa they multiplied the wheat seed, and
are now commercially distributing improved
quality seed to smallholder farmers across the
region.
Membership of Woodgate Agricultural Co-
Op has grown to 80 members, and members
have seen their annual earnings increase from
an average of €220 annually, to more than
€560 last year.
Seeds success
Lfe has moved swiftly for 63 year old
Disi Kadanga and his wife Meria since
they began working with Self Help
Africa in Kalembo, Malawi, three years ago.
The recipient of a 10 kg starter bag of
groundnut seed under a ‘revolving’ seed
scheme initiated in 2008, he harvested a total
of more than 1.7 tonnes of nuts that year,
and after repaying the seed loan made
27,000 Malawian Kwacha (€160) from his
efforts.
With this money Disi and Meria made a
number of new investments – buying an
automatic sprayer, a mobile phone and a
second-hand sewing machine to start a
home-based tailoring business. Disi and his
family extended the area that they planted
with groundnuts in 2009, and earned 43,000
Kwachas (€220).
The family put some of this money on deposit
with a village savings and credit group linked
to the FINCOOP (Finance Co-Operative Ltd),
who had been introduced to the area by
the project, and now intend to borrow to
develop their poultry rearing activities and
begin cotton farming on their farm.
Seed event helps New clinics fight plant disease
learning Plant clinics trials will shortly get
under way in Uganda, helping to
ers in their area for advice. However, few
people, are qualified to give this advice, and
The first Self Help Africa
train communities to identify and the farmer will often lose his or her crop. In
inter-country learning exchange
treat plant diseases. Uganda over the last year, the staple cassava
has just taken place, helping to
spread learning on seed system development
This is a new development for Self Help has been hit hard by brown streak disease,
Africa, and aims to reduce crop losses from and its impact has been heavily felt.
across Africa between government, civil
plant diseases and pests. The new project will establish plant clinics in
society and research partners.
Plant clinics are simple places, often little Kayunga in central Uganda, and at Kumi-
The event, at Awassa, Ethiopia, allowed
more than a table and some chairs, in a Bukedea, and will focus on identifying and
participants from a number of countries to
public, farmer-friendly place in a small town. treating plant diseases, as well as disseminat-
share good practice and promote new ideas.
The ‘plant doctors’ are local extension work- ing best agronomical practices.
Improving access to good quality seed,
ers from farmer organizations, government The project is the result of a joint initiative
adapted to local conditions at the right time
extension agencies or NGOs between Self Help Africa, district local gov-
and price is critical to smallholder farmers.
Without these clinics, and faced with plant ernment staff, and CABI-Europe, a non-profit
The exchange looked at farmer/community/
disease, farmers most often turn to oth- science-based development organisation.
local seed multiplication systems and covered
issues from field practice to farmer organisa-
tion and policy.
The exchange involved field visits, a work- Benefitting from fruit tree roll-out
shop with presentations and debates and re-
fined a publication to promote the practices.
Farm advice
network grows
An innovative training initiative
that seeks to extend the reach
of Self Help Africa’s develop-
ment work in Ethiopia to two northern
regions of the country, was recently
concluded.
The project brought together government
extension workers and model farmers from
three regions, and provided them with train-
ing in homestead gardening, the develop-
ment of private nurseries, and new skills in
vegetable and fruit production.
The training scheme was initiative under an
agreement between Self Help Africa and
government agencies, and was carried out in
Thousands of trees have been planted in Nkhala Hills.
collaboration with the Government’s Melkasa
Agricultural Research Centre, with whom
Four farmers in the northern part of for the sale of oranges, lemons and mango in
SHA is collaborating.
Uganda’s Kayunga rural develop- local towns and villages.
Close to 100 government extension work-
ment project have been supported The promotion of fruit tree seedlings is a
ers and 600 model farmers from districts
by Self Help Africa with the establishment of part of ongoing efforts to replant trees in
within Oromia, Amhara and Tigray regions of
fruit tree nurseries in the area. the Kayunga area, while the initiative also
Ethiopia were targeted by the scheme, which
More than two acres of land have been set provides additional forage material for bees
included a series of training days, as well as
aside on the farms of participating farmers, in the area.
exposure visits to SHA’s recently completed
and have been planted with grafted citrus Meanwhile, one new central tree nursery was
Huruta rural development programme.
and mango seedlings. established in the district during the early
Partipants, who included 72 development
Over 1,500 citrus seedlings are currently be- months of 2010, while information meetings
agents and 24 staff of agricultural and rural
ing grown by the farmers, a similar number were organised in four parishes to provide
development offices, attended a number of
of mango seedlings are growing, while a communities with information on measures
day long training sessions in Adama,
further 1,500 citrus trees are ready for graft- available to adapt, and mitigate the effects of
Training provided during the course will be
ing in the coming months. climate change.
disseminated through extension agents and
The tree seedlings will be sold by the produc- Approximately 200 people attended the
model farmers, who will promote vegetable
ers to local farmers who will be encouraged climate change meetings, while a further 60
and fruit production, nursery development,
to grow citrus and mango trees as a means farmers in Kayunga participated in training
and homestead gardening to more than
of diversifying household income, and to course in apiary management.
1,800 households – approx. 10,000 people,
improve local diets. There is a ready market
in communities where they are working.
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Dec 1 World AIDS Day
8 Dec 10 Human Rights Day

Restoring soil fertility
Recent harvests that have been
three and four times greater than
in the past are fitting reward for
the hard work invested in their land by a
community in Burkina Faso’s hot and arid
Central Plateau.
A settlement of little more than 800 people,
the smallholder farmers of Sika village have
spent the past 18 months on a painstaking
and labour intensive effort to rehabilitate
their dry and dusty fields.
Employing a traditional zai hole fertilization
technique, and constructing a criss cross of
low stone bunds (walls) to prevent erosion,
the community has to date succeeded in
rehabilitating over 90 acres of their farm land.
Working in collaboration with Self Help
Africa’s local partners PER (Association Projet
Ecologie et Reboisement), the community at
Sika report that their most recent harvests of
sorghum, millet and beans from the treated
land have been three and four times greater
than the returns from their other lands.
Farmers restore depleted forests
Communities in Kenya’s Rift Valley
province are being mobilized to
support an innovative new
environmental project that aims to re-estab-
lish commercial forestry in the region.
Under the scheme four multi-purpose tree
nurseries are being set up, a further eight
school-based school tree nurseries are being
established, while 4,000 small-holder farm-
ers in Naivasha region are being supported
to replant forestry on sections of their land.
Four farmers associations in the Elementaita
and Gilgil districts are being supported with
training in a range of tree planting and
forestry techniques, and will be charged with
Fish farming boosts Malawi incomes
A plentiful supply of fruit, fish and
vegetables is the outcome for a small
Southern Malawian farmers since they
embarked on an aqua-culture joint venture to
supplement their income.
The group members have each excavated
small fish ponds on their farms, at Kampa-
sule village in Kalembo, and are using the
available water to irrigate small fruit and
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SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION
protecting harvests for the future
PER has provided training to farmers in ma-
nure making and composting, the essential
ingredients of ‘zai’. The technique requires
the farmers to dig thousands of shallow holes
in their field and fill each with compost, be-
fore topping each off with grasses and straw.
The fertilized holes leach their nutrients back
into the soil, and also serve as shallow basins
to collect water during the rainy season.
Mother-of-five Sawadogo Lemoussa admits
that the work is both tiring and labour inten-
sive, but says that they have little choice as
they need to produce crops from their fields.
‘Everyone here relies on farming, so we have
to try to make our land as productive as pos-
sible.’
Her neighbour Garba Wango agrees, and
says that although it requires more effort, the
use of zai technology and composting gives
them an alternative to chemical fertilizer,
which he says is only of short-term benefit,
and is also an investment that many small
scale farmers cannot afford.
oversight and longer term management of
the forestry work under the scheme, which
is being undertaken by Self Help Africa in
collaboration with the Eburru Community
Forest Association (ECOFA).
In recent decades it is estimated that forest
cover in Kenya has fallen to under 2%, as a
growing rural population depletes existing
woodlands.
The interventions will allow for the scaling
up of market led natural resource manage-
ment work, with farm communities being
encouraged to undertake commercially
focused forestry planting, of fruit trees and
mixed woodlots.
vegetable plots. They are growing banana,
guava, mango, sugar cane and assorted
vegetables, close to their ponds, and recently
shared a dividend of over €750 from the sale
of 12,000 tilapia fish that they had reared in
their ponds.
With the added revenue, members have
bought goats, built new homes, and pur-
chased plots of land to expand their farms.
Spreading manure into a zai hole, Sika, Burkina Faso
New dam to help
thousands
A new pilot project to provide
clean drinking water and irrigation
for a community of over 10,000
people in the hot dry Southern Red Sea
region of Eritrea, is set to start.
A collaboration between Self Help Africa and
the Agricultural Promotion and Development
unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, the
project will alleviate water shortages
for householders and semi-nomadic
communities, and support the irrigation
needs of nomadic livestock and small scale
irrigated farming.
Situated on the fringes of the Danakil
Depression – the lowest point in Africa and
the continent’s hottest and driest region,
the project will construct a central rain-
harvesting dam and reservoir, install 9km of
water pipelines, and establish of water points
for householders, and drinking troughs for
animals. 2,400 households across 21 villages
will be serviced by the scheme.
Amongst those who will benefit from the
scheme are over 700 families who are semi-
nomadic pastoralists from the isolated Afar
ethnic tribal group.
New pens improve animal health
Goat herds play a vital role in the
lives of many African subsistence
farm families – providing them
with an additional source of income and
nutrition, and also an ‘insurance’ to be sold in
times of emergency.
Local partners of Self Help Africa in Zambia
and Ghana are being supported with projects
that seek to improve the living conditions of
livestock on small-scale African farms.
In Zambia elevated goat pens are being
promoted in Lusaka Province, while in Ghana
a new design goat house is being developed
and promoted amongst herders in Bolga-
tanga region.
Louis Mwachiaba constructed an elevated
goat pen on his farm in Chiala village in Zam-
bia more than eighteen months ago. Since
then he says that his goats have produced
more milk and have been healthier - a result
of being able to take shelter off the muddy
Pigs help maize yield in Malawi
Mofati Magombo has produced more
than 22 animals since he became
involved in Self Help Africa’s pig
breeding programme in Mabwera village in
Masumbankhunda, Malawi.
A father of two, Mofati says that he has
used the proceeds from the sale of animals
to carry out improvements to his home, to
establish a small trading post where his wife
sells household goods, and to expand his
pens and other farm buildings. He recently
sold two of his herd and earned €310.
Beekeepers shop opens in Asmara
Beekeepers Associations
established with the support of
Self Help Africa have opened a
retail outlet in Eritrea’s capital, to sell their
honey and other bee products.
The enterprise in Asmara city follows the
establishment of a shop in the market town
of Dibarwa, and is part of an effort to
strengthen local markets for the sale of honey
and heighten awareness of beekeeping
nationally.
Self Help Africa has been supporting
a National Beekeeping Development
Programme in Eritrea for more than five
livestock development
supporting animal husbandry
earth during the rainy
season. Manure can also
easily be collected.
In Ghana a different ap-
proach to achieve the same
objective is underway in
Pelunga district, where
more than 400 farmers
have constructed improved
houses for their livestock.
Zobil Yinboka, a lead
farmer in Pelungu who
has been demonstrating
the technology to other
farmers, says that the new
house, which has a tiered
and sloped floor, allows the
manure to roll down into
a central pit from where it
can be collected for use as
fertilizer. Louis Mwachiaba with his improved goat house in Zambia
New pigs boost
Aged 35 years, Mofati Magombo says that local stock
he is ‘now in the clear’ with the Livestock More than 400 households in the
Committee, having returned six piglets to Kayunga area of Uganda are set to
the group – so that they can loan them to benefit from the reintroduction this
other farmers as starter pig rearing stock. summer of 45 improved breed boer buck
He is collecting pig manure and using it to goats to improve local breeds.
fertilise a backyard vegetable garden at his The Boer bucks will be provided to local
home, and is also using it to spread on his households already involved in goat rearing,
maize field, which recently yielded 40 50kg and will provide breeding services across the
bags of maize. ‘This was almost 100% more local community.
than I had been producing when I didn’t Within the first year it is scheduled that 180
have manure or fertiliser,’ he says. newly born kids can be ‘revolved’ to other
local households as part of a pass on scheme,
thus increasing the blood line of local herds
within a short period of time.
Meanwhile, 24 households have received im-
years, and in that time has supported
proved breed sows in a bid to
thousands of householders to become
improve the quality and
involved in beekeeping activities.
In the past year the organisation has
supported beekeepers to set up members
health of the pig popu-
lation in Kayunga.
Both pig and goat
associations in Adiquala, Emnihaili,
breeders have
Mendefera and Dekemare sub-regions, and
received training
facilitated training courses in management,
in fodder manage-
administration and organisational
ment, in breeding
development for more than 500 members of
techniques, in disease
the four new associations. In that time over
management and con-
200 new bee colonies have been distributed,
trol, and in livestock
and nearly 70,000 forage shrubs and trees
housing systems.
planted to support the activity.
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OUR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS
US Streetfest
Thousands of New Yorkers turned out on
Stone Street in downtown Manhattan in early
Summer and raised thousands of dollars to
support Self Help Africa’s water development
projects in West Africa.Organised by bar and
restaurant owners on Stone Street, the event
attracted large numbers – with 20% of pro-
ceeds of business on the day being donated
to the cause. ‘StreetFest 2010’ was the very
first fundraiser organised by Self Help Africa
in the United States.
Proceeds raised from the event will go
towards the construction of wells, repair of
boreholes and establishment of a basic health
and sanitation education programme for
more than 15,000 in northern Togo.
One Foundation
Following a year-long collaboration with Self
Help Africa which saw profits from the sale
of the ‘One Vitamin Water’ range going to
support irrigated horticultural and vegetable
gardens in Malawi, The One Foundation has
scaled up its support for Self Help Africa’s
work in the southern African country.
One Foundation has committed to supporting
a programme of activities in Kalembo District,
with profits from the sale of a number of
their products to be invested in seed develop-
ment, vegetable production, and sanitation.
From mid-October the foundation’s ‘One
Toilet Roll’ and ‘One Soap’ will go on sale at
Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s largest supermar-
ket chains, with profits from the sale of these
products being invested in supporting Self
Help Africa’s work. A delegation from One
Foundation travelled to Malawi in the Spring
to see at first hand the impact that their
investment in our work was having.
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supporter news
Grain farmers combine for charity
The Irish cereal farmers who shattered a
world harvesting record and netted nearly
one-third of a million euro for charity into the
bargain, are back in business with a bid to
raise thousands more for worthy causes.
The ‘Combines 4 Charity’ grain farmers
attracted thousands of people to their spec-
tacle late last Summer, when they brought
together 175 working combine harvesters in
a field at the same time.
They are now aiming to do more for charity,
and are currently selling tickets for a Monster
Former IFA President Padraig Walshe with Michael Lawlor and Frank Hemeryck of Combines4Charity are pictured
with Wubshet Berhanu, Ethiopian Director, and Kalongo Chitengi, Zambia Director of Self Help Africa.
‘Africa Rising’ documentary award
A film documentary that looked at Self
Help Africa’s work to mobilize community
development in Ethiopia has picked up a
prestigious media award.
‘Africa Rising’, a story of ‘how Africans
are solving Africa’s problems themselves’
was named the winner of the Millennium
Journalist lives in African village
‘A Village in Africa’ is the title for a month-
long ‘new media’ project that Self Help Africa
has embarked on to shed light on what daily
life is like in a rural African community.
Young journalist Ciara Kenny travelled to
Zambia at the end of September, and on a
daily blog being hosted by ‘The Irish Times’
website, and also utilising Facebook, Twitter,
and other new media platforms, she is seek-
ing to provide a window into the world of
the community of Makwatata, in the east of
the country.
Raffle of farm machinery, vehicles and other
great prizes to be held in County Meath on
October 24th next.
A treasure trove of prizes - including a John
Deere 6630 tractor, a Toyota Hilux crew cab
vehicle, a Toyota Corolla car and much more
- are on offer in the raffle, to be held at The
Knightsbrook Hotel in Trim, Co. Meath that
night.
To find out more contact Combines 4
Charity through their web-site at:
www.combines4charity.com
Development Goals (MDG) award at the
One World Media Awards in London, this
Summer.
Produced by Clover Films for TG4, the film
was shot in the Sodo region of Ethiopia over
a period of more than eighteen months, in
2007 and 2008.
Armed with a solar recharging kit for her lap-
top, digital video camera and voice recorder,
Ciara is living with villagers and participat-
ing in daily life for this community of Ngoni
tribes-people until the end of October.
Ciara has travelled extensively in Europe,
China, South-East Asia, and South and
Central America, and has written for Rough
Guides travel books since 2007.
The month-long assignment in Africa is being
undertaken in collaboration with The Irish
Times online, where you can follow her blog.
Rugby stars support Self Help Africa
Two well-known rugby stars have thrown
their support behind the work of Self Help
Africa.
Flying winger and former British and Irish Lion
Denis Hickie has joined SHA as an ambas-
sador, and will specifically support efforts to
raise awareness of the challenges resulting
from climate change in sub-Saharan Africa.
The former Leinster star traveled recently to
Ethiopia, and said following the trip that it
had opened his eyes to the challenges that
Former rugby international Dennis Hickie is pictured in Ethiopia recently.
Lasting impact of legacy giving
A small sum can make a big difference’ is
the message that Self Help Africa is issuing
to friends and supporters if they are consid-
ering writing a will.
‘Composing a will is a very private and very
personal matter, but once your loved ones
and family are taken care of you may want
to consider a gift for a charity” says Busi-
ness Development Manager Louise Rogan.
Self Help Africa are happy to talk to anyone
in confidence who may be looking for
Irish charity lunch sold out
Self Help Africa’s second Irish charity lunch in
Dublin on Saturday, November 27th.
The event takes place at the popular Town
Bar & Grill on Kildare Street, and guest of
honour will be former rugby international
and new Self Help Africa ambassador, Denis
Changemakers ball in the US
Close to 400 US supporters are set to attend
our inaugural black-tie ball fundraiser, to be
held in New York on Friday, November 12th
next. ‘The Change Makers Ball’ takes place
at Manhattan’s Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers
on the banks of the Hudson River, and will
be emceed by Bloomberg TV host Margaret
are facing farmers and their families in Africa.
Meanwhile, British and Irish Lions rugby
captain Paul O’Connell lent his support to a
novel fundraiser for Self Help Africa, at the
recent National Ploughing Championships in
County Kildare. The Munster rugby legend
teamed up with food critic Tom Doorley for
a cheese tasting challenge being organised
by the National Dairy Council of Ireland that
raised €3,000 for Self Help Africa.
guidance or advice on how they should
proceed to leave a gift.
Alternatively,
solicitors can advise clients on how they
might proceed to leave a sum to charity in
their will. In the past year Self Help Africa
received gifts from several supporters in
Ireland and the United Kingdom, these
legacies were spent across our programmes
and made a lasting difference to many
peoples lives.
Hickie. All tickets were snapped up in
record time. Supporters will have lunch, be
entertained and have a chance to win some
fabulous prizes.
Like last year it is anticipated a great day will
be had by all.
Brennan.
Close to 30 tables have already been sold
for the event, which will be attended by
figures from international business, sports,
diplomacy, publishing, philanthrophy and
development. To find out more contact any
of our Self Help Africa offices.
self Help Africa newsletter 2010-11
Radio for help
Self Help Africa has been nominated as
a beneficiary of the BBC Radio 4 Charity
Appeal. Radio 4 listeners donated more
than £1.4 million to 52 weekly charities
who took part in the appeal last year.
Organised through a Sunday broadcast on
Radio 4, Self Help Africa will be the BBC
station’s chosen charity for a week, at a
date yet to be confirmed.
The Big Give
SELF Help Africa has again been selected to
participate in the UK’s ‘Big Give Challenge
2010’, which last year allowed us to raise an
amazing £80,000 for our work.The first step
of the Challenge is to raise our own Match-
ing Fund pot of £20,000 and we already have
pledges for the full amount! This will double
any donation made by supporters, trusts and
the general public on ‘The Big Give’ website
in December. Following this we have a fantas-
tic opportunity to unlock additional bonus
funding from an external sponsor, who will
double any additional public donations up to
a further £20,000 limit. So we really can turn
£1 into £4!
To find out more about how you can sup-
port Self Help Africa through the 2010
Big Give Christmas Challenge contact
Clare on 00 44 (0)1743 277173.
Tour D’Afrique
Self-confessed ‘cycling novice’ Paddy Berkery
showed just what can be done when you
turn your mind to it, when he successfully
completed one of the world’s best known
endurance rallies in support of Self Help
Africa earlier this year. ‘I had hardly been up
on a bike before I started, and was preparing
for exams at the end of last year so didn’t
even have the opportunity to train’, admits
the 27 year old Dubliner, as he describes his
preparations for the grueling 12,000km ‘Tour
D’Afrique’ cycle from Cairo to Cape Town,
last Spring.
A son of former Irish Farmers Association
general secretary Michael Berkery, Paddy
threw himself headlong into the challenge.
Paddy’s efforts raised over €15,000 for Self
Help Africa.
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Supporting smallholders
Self Help Africa is participating in a develop-
ment agency consortium that is pressing to
ensure that the role of smallholder farmers is
at the heart of the UK government’s future
poverty eradication strategy for Africa.
The African Smallholder Farmers Group
(ASFG) articulated the case in favour of its ap-
proach in a report that was launched recently
at the Houses of Parliament in London.
‘Africa’s Smallholder Farmers: Approaches
that Work for Viable Livelihoods’ presents
nine accounts of successful approaches from
across Africa which have increased access to
decision-making, assets, markets, science,
knowledge and technology for smallholder
farmers.
The publication calls on the Government to
make a commitment to increase the amount
of aid for African smallholders, and to focus
agricultural aid allocations on areas with
greatest potential to support smallholder
farmers.
Following the publication of the report, Self
Help Africa was represented on a delegation
that met with Stephen O’Brien, the UK parlia-
New York Conference on Hunger
Self Help Africa and Concern Worldwide
co-hosted a special conference on Ireland’s
role in fighting hunger in the 21st century,
in New York, last Summer.
The event, ‘Hunger in the 21st Century :
Ireland and the Fight against Famine’ was
addressed by President Mary McAleese, and
was also attended by the former prime min-
ister of New Zealand Helen Clark, who is the
On the Frontline of Climate Change
A publication that seeks to tell the stories
of rural Africans at the frontline of climate
change, was launched and circulated in
advance of the UN’s Copenhagen Summit,
late last year.
Self Help Africa collaborated with five other
international NGOs on the report – ‘Climate
Frontline Africa’, which was circulated to
campaigners, politicians and policy advisers
in advance of the UN’s meeting.
Ireland’s Minister for the Environment John
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campaigning & advocacy
Changing Attitudes, Opinions and Policies
mentary undersecretary of state for interna-
tional development, to discuss the report’s
recommendations.
Recently published smallholder farmers’ report
current administrator of the United Nations
Development Fund.
Self Help Africa’s Zambian country direc-
tor Kalongo Chitengi spoke on the role of
women in poverty eradication and famine
prevention at the event, which was moder-
ated by Roger Thurow, the celebrated
American author of ‘Enough: Why the
world’s poor starve in an age of plenty’.
Gormley presided at a formal launch in
Dublin, while copies of the report were
circulated to all members of the EU’s
Environment Committee, following a launch
of the document at the EU in Brussels.
A launch in London was attended by
influential climate change campaigner
Saleemul Huq, who is serving head of the
Climate Change Group at the International
Institute for Environment and Development.
Wend Yam
lobby success
A beekeeping development association being
supported by Self Help Africa in Burkina Faso
has successfully lobbied for the inclusion of
apiculture in the armoury of poverty reduc-
tion strategies for one of the West African
country’s poorest regions.
Representatives of the Wend Yam Federation
made a successful case for including bee-
keeping amongst the priority areas, during
a regional review of poverty reduction strate-
gies for Burkina Faso’s hot and dry Central
Plateau region.
“The decision to include beekeeping –
alongside agriculture, livestock, environment,
education, health, tourism, energy, drinking
water and youth employment in the strategy
is good news. It will certainly enable us to
mobilize more resources and get more people
involved in beekeeping in the Central Plateau
region, and is an important step in the future
development of our activities’, said Wend
Yam’s Jean Baptiste Sawadogo. Self Help
Africa has been collaborating with the Wend
Yam Federation for the past three years.
TwentyFifteen
Self Help Africa has published the second in
a series of books that allow young people
to express their views on the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs).
Transition year students from St. Wolstan’s
College in Kildare, Ireland, led the project,
and attracted contributions from students
across Ireland, the UK, and from several
African countries, as well as the views of
figures in public life.
The book –
“Twenty Fifteen
-Thoughts and
Reflections on the
Second Millennium
Development
Goal, Universal
Primary
Education’ was
co-ordinated by
Self Help Africa’s
development
education unit.
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