Newsletter 2012-13

Farming for ’s future

Enterprising fish farmers at work in the new programme in Malawi6

Presidential praise 3 Co-op boost for 7 Business links 14

www.selfhelpafrica.org Message from CEO Agriculture holds the key to a bright future for emerging Africa

Growth in emerging African economies is built on a strengthening agricultural sector

Ghana is enjoying rapid economic growth, much of it built upon a strengthening agricultural sector.

f you read just free from hunger and poverty – may yet be more adaptable, and more educated, as the headlines you some way off, but it is no exaggeration to say they confront head-on these and other I would believe that that green shoots of economic growth are impediments. Africa is a hopeless in plain sight in many countries that are still A great deal remains to be done if current case, blighted by amongst the poorest in the world. growth patterns are to be sustained, and the an endless litany of Ethiopia and , two countries where 30% of African people – approximately 250 hunger, poverty and Self Help Africa works, are currently amongst million, who live in extreme poverty, can be suffering. the fastest growing economies in the world, helped to achieve a better life. The major news and in fact in 2011 seven of the world’s 10 But nobody can dispute the role that story to emerge fastest-growing economies were African. agriculture must play in that work – given from the continent last year told of a grave The growth in virtually all of these emerging that more than 70% of Africans rely directly humanitarian crisis that displaced entire African economies has been built upon the on small-farms for their survival, and communities and claimed the lives of foundations of a strengthening agricultural statistics that show that upwards of 75% thousands in the Horn of Africa. sector, underlining the critical role that of African farmland has the potential – with And this year has been little different, as farming and food production must play in the better farming systems, irrigation and other newspapers, radio and television carried fight against poverty. This situation is far from measures, to grow much more than at endless reports of despair amongst unique to Africa however, as virtually every present. impoverished communities who fled barren country aside from those with oil wealth have Self Help Africa is grateful for the continuing fields after widespread drought caused crops emerged from poverty due to the productivity backing that we receive from our supporters to fail across wide swathes of West Africa. of their farmers. for the work we do with Africa’s farmers. It Has nothing changed? Have we made Since Self Help Africa was established nearly is rewarding work, and is reaping rewards. no headway at all in Africa, you could 30 years ago we have recognised the vital We look forward to continuing with you on legitimately ask? importance of agriculture in the fight to end this journey, and playing our part in Africa’s How did India emerge from famine and hunger and poverty in Africa. growth and development in the year ahead. poverty to become the economic power- By supporting irrigation, developing better house that it is in Asia today, when so seed systems, strengthening agricultural much of sub-Saharan Africa remains heavily extension, knowledge and training systems, dependent on foreign aid, with millions and by improving access to credit, to seeming just a bad season away from enterprise opportunities and to markets, destitution. Self Help Africa has enabled hundreds of Self Help Africa receives programme funding from To answer the first question posed above, it is thousands of rural farm families to work their , UK Aid and US Aid, and is also backed heartening to be able to say that things have, way out of poverty. by a series of trusts and foundations. and are changing in Africa – fast. Considerable challenges remain – and Our gratitude also to members of the public in From a lower base than anywhere else on indeed new ones are emerging – in the Ireland, UK and USA for their generous backing. the planet, African countries are lifting form of climate change, population growth, themselves out of poverty. and in spiraling prices of staple foods, but The continent that we aspire to see – one Africa’s farmers are becoming more robust,

2 Self Help Africa Newsletter 2012/13 General News Developing market links President for cashew farmers praises p to 1,000 farmers in West Africa newest varieties of cashew trees, farmed will benefit from an innovative at optimum levels, can produce up to 60 ‘remarkable Upartnership established between Self kilos. By introducing these new varieties Help Africa and the giant beverage and snack and helping farmers with orchard layout, company, Pepsi, recently. pruning and other agronomic practices, Self work’ The new project, to be run on a trial basis Help Africa aims to increase farm incomes rish President Michael D Higgins praised for 20 months in , is jointly funded by dramatically. A model farm and a farmer field “the truly remarkable work” of Self Help Pepsi’s snackfoods subsidiary, Frito Lay, and school will be established, to allow farmers to I Africa in an address to more than 300 sees Self Help Africa working with cashew witness how the adoption of new practices supporters at an inaugural Spring gala ball in farmers to improve production. can boost their harvests. . Working in two districts near the town of “The new partnership with Pepsi and Tolaro The guest of honour at the inaugural Self Parakou in central Benin, Self Help Africa will is a first for us in Self Help Africa,” said CEO Help Africa Change-Maker’s Gala, President assist farmers in increasing both the quality Ray Jordan. “It’s a great example of a real Higgins, on his first official visit to the United and quantity of their cashew production, as partnership at work, with Self Help Africa States since his election late last year lauded well as helping them with the formation of assisting farmers to grow more cashew, all those involved in “fighting poverty and farmer cooperatives. The cashew crop will be Tolaro buying and processing this cashew hunger by helping rural African communities sold into a new processing facility, run by the after harvest, and Pepsi bringing the cashew to drive their own change and to help project’s other partner, Tolaro Global. all the way to the consumers in Europe and themselves.” Cashew harvests average around three kilos the US.” “Empowering the small farmer in Africa per tree per year in West Africa, while the to help themselves to become sustainable food producers is one of the most sensible, efficient and cost effective ways we can help reduce the threat of famine, starvation and malnutrition that currently faces too many of our fellow human beings,” the President added. Farmers are “the backbone of Africa,” he said, as he highlighted Self Help Africa’s work in the area. “You believe in them and you invest in them. You link farmers with markets. You work with them in improving their practices and building up their capacity for achieving sustainability. There is no better work.” The event raised almost $150,000, and is the second charity gala now taking place in the United States each year to support the work of Self Help Africa.

West African smallholder farmers have a valuable new market for their cashew crop, under a recently established partnership with Pepsico. Making community connections in n ambitious new development food production, and agricultural extension project that will aim to improve service delivery. A particular emphasis will be A services to almost half a million placed by the project on the nutritional needs people has been launched by Self Help Africa of women and children in disadvantaged in Uganda. households. Uganda Community Connector (UCC) One element of UCC will see the is designed to improve the nutritional establishment by Self Help Africa and local status and the livelihoods of over 80,000 partners of an effective farmer field school households in Uganda over a five year period, programme to support knowledge transfer and has received backing from the American and training for small-scale farmers. government’s ‘USAID’ programme. Work is being undertaken in collaboration As the name suggests the project is about with a number of specialist sectoral partners improving the connection between local including US development specialists FHI360, communities and support services, and it local development agencies Brac and Vedco, Empowering the small farm is one of the most is within this programme that Self Help Gulu and Mbarara universities in Uganda, sensible and cost effective ways to help reduce Africa will take the lead on the provision of and others. famine, President Higgins tells Boston Ball. improved linkages relating to agriculture,

Self Help Africa Newsletter 2012/13 3 News from the Field

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Diversification into production of fruit and vegetables was the turning point for Benson Irungu, “who came to farming late in life when he retired from his poorly paid government job. Sponsored by Self Help Africa to attend an agricultural training course, Benson quickly set about putting his new knowledge into practice by planting kale, cabbage, onions, Mr. Okwakol Ochom one of the plant clinics doctors’ attending to some of the farmers who had come butternut squash, papaya and passion to present some of their problems in Ngora market, Uganda on 30th Sep 2010 fruit around the perimeter of his one mproving diagnostics and ensuring swift the crops can identify troublesome pests and and a half acres holding at Visio village treatment of plant diseases can be the diseases before they have really taken hold.” in Rongai, . I difference between a bountiful harvest The project is being implemented in “I had to be patient while the plants and crop failure, for a small-holder farmer collaboration with government ministries and trees grew, but after a few years in Africa. And so it is that Self Help Africa and research institutes in Uganda. “We are I was earning a lot more than ever has established a network of plant clinics in trying to improve the lines of communication before,” he says. rural Uganda, to improve early detection and between farmers, extension workers, and Since then Benson has reinvested his set in place measures to combat or contain are setting out to reach up to 80,000 small- earnings in purchasing a dairy cow, a destructive pests and disease before they holder farmers during the lifetime of the flock of 30 poultry, as well as housing spread. project,” SHA’s country director added. for his livestock. In 2010 he went even “The first step in this process is knowledge,” In the past year clinics have been established further and leased land on which he explains Uganda director Tony Kisadha. by Self Help Africa in nine districts, including has planted cassava, sorghum and “The clinics are designed to improve farmer locations in the North, West and East of sweet potato. knowledge, so that people who are growing Uganda.

School start for new farmer generation pilot project that brought education school,” explains Self Help Africa country production of a range of leafy vegetable crops about agriculture into the classroom director Amos Zaindi. “The gardens have which can be grown during the school year. Ahas been completed in , with provided a very practical learning platform for Self Help Africa carried out the work in the creation of school vegetable gardens at 18 students, who also gain the benefits of being collaboration with Lilongwe District Education primary level schools in the Lilongwe district. able to enjoy the fruits of their work.” Office, Lilongwe District Agriculture Office, Developed as a means of introducing students A total of 900 students have been involved in and Lilongwe’s local district council. at a young age to the principles of basic the project, which specifically promoted the THE crop management and cropping systems, the gardens have also provided school goers with practical, hands-on knowledge of good practice in food production. Food that is being grown in the school gardens is both provided to students as an additional source of nourishment, while some is sold in local markets to generate revenues needed to maintain the school gardens as a MTUKULA sustainable ongoing concern. The Malawi School Gardens project was started by Self Help Africa in 2009 in collaboration with The One Foundation, who in tandem with the scheme supported FUND investment in improved drinking water and sanitation services at the 18 participating schools. “Children learn about farming in the home but they do not usually learn about it at One of the school gardens being cultivated in the Lilongwe district in Malawi

4 Self Help Africa Newsletter 2012/13 News from the Field Funds back agricultural innovation

Fisherfolk on Lake Malawi. A programme supporting small scale fishing communities is being supported by the Mtukula Fund in 2012

nnovative new development projects offices, local partners and local NGOs for support and empower rural women. that set out to empower women, foster consideration in 2012, before the funds grant The chosen projects for 2012 include activities Ienterprise and support agricultural making panel awarded its backing to two that look at the enterprise potential of banana diversification are to be supported by a major new project activities in each of Malawi and production, that support conservation fish new development fund launched by Self Help . farming, that add value to mango production, Africa. The Mtukula Fund, which derives its Self Help Africa’s Head of Innovation and and that link broiler hen rearing and amaranth name from a southern African word that Learning Jenny Rafanomezana said that the grain production within a single project. describes an action to stimulate household four chosen projects had been selected in Self Help Africa’s Mtukula Fund is a sister well-being has been launched to support recognition of the benefits these activities fund to the Maendeleo Agricultural Enterprise new project activities within, or associated could have in improving farm enterprise and Fund (MAEF), managed by FARM-Africa in with Self Help Africa’s existing programmes agricultural diversification, in developing East Africa. Self Help Africa and FARM-Africa in Malawi and Zambia. Close to 20 proposals profitable market opportunities, and also are working in partnership to scale up this and suggestions were submitted by country because they each had the capacity to successful initiative.

The four new project activities that are receiving support from the inaugural Self Help Africa Mtukula Fund are 1 Banana Enterprise 2 Kariba Women’s Fishing 3 Mango Production and 4 Broiler and Amaranth Development (Zambia) Project (Zambia) Marketing (Malawi) Development (Malawi) The Banana Enterprise Development The Kariba Women’s Fishing Project The Mango production and The Trustees of Agriculture initiative is assisting Nyimba District is an aquaculture enterprise that marketing project in Malawi will Production Promotion (TAPP) and Farmers Association (NDFA) in efforts seeks to develop the commercial improve the existing stock of the Bunda College of Agriculture to improve banana processing and potential of fish farming at Lake mangoes, encourage the planting launched the Broiler and Amaranth marketing in Zambia. Kariba on Zambia’s Zambezi River. of new fruit, and improve the Value Chain Development initiative Fund support is designed to enable TheTHE backing of the fund for Kariba production and marketing of the in 2011 to promote broiler banana producers in an area with Women’s Fishing Project will assist crop for farmers. production and processing and an established trade to develop the the group with the marketing Facilitated by the Agriculture and amaranth seed multiplication among commercial potential of production of produce, accounts and book Natural Resources Management small-holder farmers in Malawi. and processing. The introduction keeping, and further entrepreneurial Consortium (ANARMAC) and Participating farmers have already of technology to assist with the development. supported through additional constructed structures for chicken processing, and the assured This assistance will be facilitated partnerships with the Horticulture housing, and have the benefit from availability of a market through by locally-based NGO Siavonga Union of Malawi (HORTICUM) and a close nearby market and good MTUKULAproject partner Silver Food Solutions Nutrition Group (SGV), and will Malawi Mangoes Ltd, the Mango road access for their produce in the gives this initiative a high chance of also seek to improve the natural Production and Marketing project capital, Lilongwe. developing into a viable, sustainable resource management in Zambia by provides technical and marketing Working with TAPP gives the agricultural enterprise. The project increasing fish catches and reducing support to participating farm project great potential due to the will benefit many farmers in the area over exploitation of lake fish, as well families.There is a government organisation’s team of well qualified who are banana producers, and also as economically empower women. commitment of support for the and experienced experts, while the has the potential to benefit rural FUNDproject, while juice processors familiarity that farmers have with women, who are the main growers Malawi Mangoes have agreed the organisation due to its previous and vendors of banana in Eastern to provide technical training work in the area also establishes this Zambia. and transport to growers. enterprise on a firm footing.

Self Help Africa Newsletter 2012/13 5 News from the Field Discover Malawi’s climate challenge elf Help Africa has teamed up with development agencies from the UK, Italy Programme aims Sand Ireland for a major new programme that is seeking to support almost one million to reduce poverty people in rural Malawi to cope with the and vulnerability effects of climate change. The project is a collaboration between SHA, of 900,000 people UK-based Concern Universal, GOAL and Italian agency Cooperazionale Interazionale (COOPI ), and will also see the organisation working with a number of local partners on a range of programme activities that are designed to support agricultural diversification and other measures to help farm households to mitigate, and adapt to the effects of a changing climate. DISCOVER, an acronym for ‘Developing Innovative Solutions with Communities to Overcome Vulnerability through Enhanced Resilience’ aims to contribute to reducing poverty and vulnerability of 900,000 people, and is being funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Mercy Amos with baby Monica draws water from the dambo wetland, which is also used for planting maize. Optimising the use of the wetlands is vital in Malawi’s efforts to adapt to climate change. with additional resources provided by the Norwegian Embassy of Malawi, and Irish Aid. communities through a series of targeted, smallholder crop and livestock production, The purpose of the work is to increase the practical actions to improve livelihoods and and promote sustainability and adaptive resilience and improve the lives of 900,000 food security funded by donor funds from the agricultural technologies in the targeted areas. vulnerable people by enhancing the capacity UKAID, Irish Aid and Norway but managed by Self Help Africa will carry out most of its work of local government to plan, prepare and UKAID. Together with supporting agricultural under DISCOVER in the Karonga district of respond to climate variability, and enhancing diversification, the five-years project will seek Northern Malawi, close to the shores of Lake the adaptation capacity of vulnerable to increase household incomes, increase Nyasa.

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6 Self Help Africa Newsletter 2012/13 News from the Field Cooperative boost for Ethiopia he earnings of thousands of farm families supported by an agricultural T cooperative development project in Ethiopia have more than doubled as a result of the scheme, a recently published evaluation has concluded. Backed by a €1.5 million EU Food Facility grant, Self Help Africa’s two-year Agricultural Cooperative Development Project (ACDP) set out to support 17,500 small-holder farmers in Ethiopia’s Oromia and SNNPR Provinces to increase food production, and indirectly improve the lives of close to 100,000 rural poor people. A post-project independent evaluation has reported that Self Help Africa’s scheme has substantially increased food production, incomes, and the ability of farmers cooperatives to support their members, and ‘has positively impacted on the lives and livelihoods of the target community.’ As a result many farmers have improved their houses, bought assets like oxen and crossbred Members of Jolle Co-operative in Oromia, Ethiopia, are pictured outside their offices. dairy cows, begun trading enterprises, and have been able to send their children to Lanfuro areas of SNNPR, and in districts of and undertaken in collaboration with the local schools, pay college fees, and purchase West and East Shewa, Zeway, West Arsi and Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, household items like televisions and bicycles. Bale in Oromia Province. and Cooperative Promotion personnel, and Some have even built homes in urban towns The project was implemented in partnership with agricultural research institutes. that they were renting to increase their with seven agricultural cooperative unions, income further. “Farmers have Creamery suppliers backing is vital improved their houses, • ‘The Grow Fund’ has been a powerful mechanism that has allowed ‘farmer bought assets and to farmer’ support for co-operative development to flourish in Self Help begun trading” Africa’s programmes, for 20 years. • Established in 1991 as a means whereby farmers could contribute to Conducted by consultants from the Dynamic African rural development projects as a small deduction from their Institute of Consultancy and Training (DICT), annual creamery cooperative payment, the Self Help Africa Grow Fund is the report to the EU was compiled following THE supported by approximately 4,000 milk suppliers to this day. household surveys with 295 randomly selected beneficiaries; focus group discussions • Members of cooperative creameries from across Ireland loyally support with 12 groups from different segments the scheme, which raises upwards of €160,000 annually to support of the community; and interviews with 34 agricultural development projects in sub-Saharan Africa. executives of cooperative unions and other • Because of the strong links to the agricultural cooperative movement of key informants. theGROW benefactors, Self Help Africa seeks to invest Grow Fund support into Self Help Africa’s Agricultural Cooperative the areas of work which seek to strengthen farmer organisations and Development Project (ACDP) was one of 13 improve collaboration between Africa’s small-holder farmers. proposals selected by the EU Food Facility for funding support from a one-billion Euro fund • The organisation’s Agricultural Cooperative Development Programme created to address developing world food in Ethiopia has long benefitted from shortages in the wake of the 2008 global the publicFUND support received through food crisis. the ‘Grow Fund’. The project built on close to a decade of work The Self Help Africa Grow Fund by Self Help Africa with cooperative unions in • receives the backing of members the Oromia and SNNPR Provinces of Southern Ethiopia, and set out to increase production from 19 different co-operative and productivity of food crops, vegetables and creameries in Ireland, including large livestock for 17,500 cooperative members. agri-business companies such as It also sought to strengthen farmers’ Glanbia and Kerry Agri-Foods, and cooperative unions, primary cooperatives, of smaller community based co-ops and government services, so that they could such as Town of Monaghan Co-op, Lee improve the support services provided to Strand in Kerry, and Mullinahone Co- 4,000 milk producers support the scheme members and the wider community. op and Dairy Society in Kilkenny. Work was carried out amongst farmers in 12 districts including the Mareko, Sodo, Silti and

Self Help Africa Newsletter 2012/13 7 2013 calendar

January February S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 Local transport

Farming Future May June Uganda S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 26 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

September October S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Peanut processing 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Zambia 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 31

Beautiful braiding Togo Self Help Africa is a signatory to the Dochas Code of Conduct on the responsible 2013 calendar use of images and messages.

March April S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Drinking water Togo 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 30 31

July August S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 21 22 23 24 825 26 27 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

November December S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Irrigated vegetables Malawi 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Farm couple 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Malawi 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28 29 30 31 30

Feb 20 World Day of Social Justice Mar 8 International Women’s Day Mar 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Mar 22 World Water Day April 7 World Health Day June 17 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought June 20 World Refugee Day Oct 16 World Food Day Oct 17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Nov 20 Universal Children’s Day & Africa Industrialisation Day Dec 1 World AIDS Day Dec 10 Human Rights Day Supporter News Runners step out in Africa Harvesting good will undreds of churches across the United Kingdom will once again Hlend their support to Self Help Africa with a series of events and activities to celebrate Harvest thanksgiving. A popular event on Self Help Africa’s UK calendar for close to a decade, this year’s Harvest Campaign, on the theme ‘Small Miracles’ is set to be bigger than ever before, with congregations across England, Scotland and Wales lending their backing. In 2011 Self Help Africa’s Harvest Campaign raised more than £30,000 to support our work. A special mention here to Keyworth Methodist Church near The beginning of the 2011 Great Ethiopian Run, when a Self Help Africa team joined over 30,000 Nottingham, which competitors in Africa’s biggest road race. Photo: Andrew Downes. has raised an amazing £55,000 since its first elf Help Africa supporters will build on and is Africa’s biggest race. donation in 1995. the success of 2011 when a team of It coincides with this year’s Kampala S30 runners and walkers line up at the Marathon, an event to which a group of 10 starting line for this year’s Great Ethiopian UK supporters of Self Help Africa will travel Run, in Addis Ababa in November. to compete.It is the first time that Self Help Joining more than 30,000 competitors from Africa has entered a team in the Uganda Donations around the globe, the SHA squad have each event, with those taking part raising £2,500 raised a minimum of €3,000 prior to the trip, to join the race. doubled by with over 50% of all money raised going to Together with a programme of run related support programme development activities in activities and sight-seeing, the supporters ‘Big Give’ Ethiopia. who visit Uganda and Ethiopia will also be remarkable Christmas fundraising The long established Great Ethiopia Run takes brought on a fact finding visit to see Self Help campaign that has netted more place this year on Sunday, 25th November, Africa’s work in the two countries. Athan a quarter of a million pounds to support our work returns again this year, when The Big Give’s ‘double your donation’ will allow us to raise up to £20,000 to support our African programmes. Gala events will mobilise The scheme sees all donations made to designated charities through The Big Give public backing for Self website being doubled on designated days. In 2012 SHA supporters can make Help Africa contributions large or small, with all sums his Autumn is shaping up to be a popular 1990s eaterie ‘Tosca’, which up to a total of £20,000 being eligible for busy one on Self Help Africa’s social will see proprietor Norman Hewson, brother matched funding. Tcalendar, with no less than five of Bono, reunite with his staff and clientele ‘The Big Give Christmas Challenge separate gala events being staged in three for a charity bash at Smock Alley Theatre on 2012’ will take place over three days, on countries to support our work. Dublin’s quays on 26th October. December 6th, 7th and 8th next, and is Upwards of 450 friends and supporters are And a few week’s later Self Help Africa will open to all supporters to make online set to attend the third annual ‘Change- be one of the main beneficiaries of a national contributions. Self Help Africa has been a Makers Ball’, a black tie celebration to be Media Gala, which will bring together beneficiary of the challenge since it was held once more in New York’s fashionable the worlds of print, broadcast and online first established by The Reed Foundation Manhattan district in late November. journalism at Guinness Storehouse for a more than four years ago, and has seen The event is preceded by the “One Night function to be attended by New York Times contributions totaling close to £130,000 in Africa’ celebration party in trendy East columnist David Carr. being doubled as a part of The Big Give London, a fun filled night to celebrate our Meanwhile, a supporting programme of challenge in that time. work in Africa. activities is being arranged in Ireland and the Since it’s inception the initiative has On the same night the West of Ireland will UK to support our work, surrounding World contributed close to £30 million to almost awake for SHA, when the four-star Meyrick Food Day on October 16th. 10,000 charities in the UK. Hotel in Galway play’s host to 250 guests for You can check out details about all of these To find out more about how you can the city’s inaugural Self Help Africa Gala Ball. events by visiting our website, or contacting support Self Help Africa at The Big Prior to these, Self Help Africa will benefit one of our offices. Give Christmas Challenge this year visit from a one-night-only ‘pop up’ return by ‘thebiggive.org.uk’.

10 Self Help Africa Newsletter 2012/13 Supporter News Global Adventurers School partnership school partnership that promises to raise €250,000 to support Ugandan Adevelopment programmes has been forged with one of Ireland’s leading summer time language schools. Coláiste Lurgan in Inveran, Co. Galway has thrown its support behind Self Help Africa work, and will donate all profits from its school he word “adventure” scarcely describes of recent times. tuck-shop, and host a series of student and the epic journey that Self Help Africa Indeed, amidst the fitness training and teacher events to support the cause over supporters Maghnus Collins Smyth and logistical preparations for ‘Sand2Snow’ T the coming five years. David Burns have embarked upon, this year. the two men brought together more than Self Help Africa received the first fruits The 27-year old pair set off in March on a 400 friends and supporters to a Gala St. of its new partnership with a cheque for nine-month endurance test that has already Valentine’s Ball that was one of the largest 50,000 from the Irish language summer seen them cycle through some of the world’s such events staged in Dublin, took to the € school recently, while more will follow when hottest deserts, and run a staggering 30 streets to sell Valentine’s roses to support upwards of 2,500 students descend on the marathons in as many days over the highest their effort, and staged school talks, visits and popular school, next summer. mountain range on earth. a host of other activities - all in aid of Self Self Help Africa’s West of Ireland fundraising And when they complete their 15,900km Help Africa. organiser Ronan Scully paid tribute to ‘Sand2Snow Adventure’ when they finally Having funded all of their travel and Coláiste Lurgan principal Mícheál Ó Foighil, paddle in to Shanghai, at the mouth of subsistence costs for the expedition out of his staff and students for their incredible China’s Yangtsee River this Christmas, their own pockets, ‘Sand2Snow’ has to date support, and said that the backing would they will justly be lauded by friends across netted an incredible €30,000 for Self Help transform the lives of thousands in Uganda the globe for the grit, determination and Africa. And more is set to follow, with plans in the years ahead. athleticism that have made it possible. afoot for yet another fundraising event, once But the 15,900km expedition is only a part of the boys arrive, wet and weary in Shanghai, the story for Limerick born Maghnus and his following a 5,000km rafting expedition VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA Northern Irish companion David’s exploits, for down the entire length of one of the world’s VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA longest rivers. VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA the duo have also, in tandem with their extra- VOICESKALEMWU FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA ordinary expedition successfully orchestrated Visit: www.sand2snow.com to find out VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICESADUNYA FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA one of the most successful fundraising efforts more. 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Autumn. of Ireland and Northern Ireland convened She has used loans to hire labourers, Once completed, for the event, which attracted thousands of buy an oxen, and to rent additional our schools unit spectators to County Meath in early August. land. Eventually she wants to buy will begin working The ‘Combines4Charity’ organisers more land for farming. with students on reclaimed the Guinness world harvesting ‘We built a new home last year, bought a publication on record that they had lost to cereal farmers a bed, table, chairs and a dresser. My Millennium Goal in Canada with the effort, and netted sons now go to private school, and I four, the reduction valuable funds to support their designated hope that my eldest boy will be the of child mortality. charities – Self Help Africa, Barnardos, first in our family to get to university,’ Gary Kelly Cancer Centre and the National she says. The first two books in the MDG series Rehabilitation Trust into the bargain.

Self Help Africa Newsletter 2012/13 11 Supporter News Electric Aid powers African programmes or nearly a decade Electric Aid (EA) has supported the poverty eradication Fprogrammes of Self Help Africa (SHA), investing close to €150,000 in more than a dozen development projects in sub-Saharan Africa in that time. EA, a staff fund of the Irish electricity board has backed micro-projects implemented by Self Help Africa in Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso, , Ethiopia and Malawi, with funds enabling tens of thousands of Africans to grow more, earn more, and have the funds to invest in healthcare, education and better living conditions for their families. Electric Aid support has assisted a number of rural communities to develop horticultural Workers have projects. These have provided rural poor families with water to grow vegetables and backed over a other irrigation dependent crops on their dozen projects homesteads, has provided communities with backing for beekeeping as an income generating activity, and has supported work that has allowed small-scale farmers to Kolane Dounwague began producing and selling aubergine and other vegetable crops on her small have better access to good quality planting homestead, as part of the Mandime Women’s Group in Togo, supported by Electric Aid. seed to grow their crops. A project that was supported by Electric Across the continent in Malawi more Aid in Togo, West Africa, in 2010 assisted a than 100 farmers linked to five irrigated number of womens’ groups in the remote horticultural groups have benefitted and disadvantaged North-East to develop from training, technical support and the VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA a programme of conservation agriculture distribution of treadle (foot) pumps, which VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA activities that enabled participating farmers have enabled them to commercially produce VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICESBETHA FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA to conserve a five-acre area of local wetland, cabbage, onion and tomato for sale in local VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICESMANZA FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA develop income generating enterprise, and markets. Up to 1,000 local people have VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICESZAMBIA FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA improve their household food production. in-directly benefitted from this Electric Aid VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA Participating women were provided with supported project in the Balaka district in VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA training and technical support, and received Southern Malawi. VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA seed so that they could grow a range of new Rufina Jesmere, a separated mother of four VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA food crops in their community including rice, says that the income she has earned as a VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA groundnuts and vegetables. member of the Chanika Horticulture Group VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA A member of the Mandime Women’s Group, in Balaka has allowed her to put a tin roof on Villagers call to the fields to Kolane Dounwague began producing and her home, and has helped her to pay to send buy vegetables from Betha selling aubergine and other vegetable crops her children to school. Manza. “They come to me because on her small homestead. And in Burkina Faso, Sawadogo Aminato “I don’t have time to go to them,” “It was difficult at first, as we had to prepare from Nioliopalga, a village group affiliated to explains the 30 year old mother of the land and tend to my new crops, but I Wend Yam Beekeepers Federation says that three. have seen the benefit in my pocket, and am she earned €100 from the sale of honey last Betha and her husband Emmanuel farm happy that the efforts have paid off very well year, and used the income to buy footwear, a five-acres ‘damba’ (wetland) plot for me,” she said. clothing and school books, so that her at Katinta village in Eastern Zambia. children could attend school. This project They grow tomatoes, cabbage, onions, also received backing from Electric Aid. garlic, and pumpkin leaves, and lease other land nearby to grow maize. “I am in the fields six days a week planting, weeding, watering or harvesting. People know that I am here, so they come here to buy from me”. Betha and Emmanuel are members of one of a horticultural groups in Katinta. “We coordinate our work so we can share the costs of transport and get to market together, and also Beekeeping development work in West so we don’t produce the same crops, Sawadogo Aminato from Nioliopalga, Africa has been supported by Electric Aid. Burkina Faso, is a member of a beekeeping and bring down the price”. group that received backing from Electric Aid.

12 Self Help Africa Newsletter 2012/13 General News Bloggers shine light on rural Kenya month in Africa isn’t exactly life changing, but it is long enough to Aget a feel for the place. Especially if the place is a rural townland in eastern Kenya and the time is spent living in the home of a former village chief who has since turned his brawny hands to farming. That’s what London and New York based young journalists Dan Griffin and Conor Finnegan did recently, when they set off to Africa to peel back the curtain, and attempt to provide some greater insight and understanding of the lives of a rural African community. The assignment saw the pair file daily blog reports that were picked up by various outlets including the prestigious Huffington Post web-site, and seek to provoke debate, discussion and give readers a new understanding about the issues that affect life in rural Kenya. Trading the well-trodden pavements of the Edgware Road and 5th Avenue for the red mud paths of rural Kenya, Dan Griffin speaks to teachers in a rural school Dan and close to Rongai. Conor spent their time as guests of VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA Bloggers Conor Finnegan (left) and Dan Griffin (right) set out to tell a western VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA retired village VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA audience what life was like for millions of rural African smallholders. GIDEON headman VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA Samuel VOICESOKELLO FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA Yator in VOICESUGANDA FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA the remote rural settlement of Legetio, 10 remedy. “People complain a lot about ‘the VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA kilometres outside Rongai, a small market middlemen’ – the guys who call to the farm VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA town and district where Self Help Africa has and buy produce for a pittance, only for VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA been working on a rural development project them to sell it on for export and to local VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA since the mid-2000s. supermarkets at an enormous mark-up”. VOICES FROM AFRICA VOICES FROM AFRICA The pair wrote on all aspects of community “We saw how Self Help Africa trains farmers life – covering topics as diverse as land to take control, enhance their yields, come 50-year-old Gideon Okello reclamation, mental illness, poverty, HIV, up with viable applications for loans, and didn’t give up when rebels prostitution, gambling, street cleaning and encourages them to work together to cut out forced him off the land, killed his religion. But it was an assignment that the middlemen,” he adds. “livestock, and burned his crops in trained its attention most on agriculture, an Both young journalists are in little doubt that Northern Uganda, over six years ago. activity that Dan Griffin reported was the their month in Kenya will live long in the Instead, he set out to turn his life essential provider for the vast majority of memory. around when Self Help Africa gave people in the district. “The stories did generate quite an amount of him a 20kg bag of peanut seed to The many faces of farming featured in the debate and discussion on the various online plant, when he returned to his ravaged postings too – as Conor and Dan spoke with platforms, and it gave us a great insight into holding, two years later. dairy farmers, fish farmers, maize producers life amongst these people,” says Conor. “If A member of a village farmers group and vegetable growers, attended an early it gives others a better understanding, or in Amuria, Gideon now produces more morning community cattle dip, visited the merely makes them more curious to find out than 400kgs of peanuts on his land regional agricultural show, and spoke with more themselves, then we think it will have each year, grows cassava, and has women, young and old, who were also been worth it,” he concludes. invested in livestock. He sells half of seeking to carve a living from the hard, dry his crop for profit each year, and uses soil. “We saw how Self the money to buy livestock, and for Conor Finnegan says that the issues affecting household improvements. “I’ve built farmers are too numerous to list here, Help Africa trains a permanent house for my family, but singles out one challenge that they farmers to take and am sending my two children to heard about, and which Self Help Africa school,” he says. has been working with farmers to try to control“

Self Help Africa Newsletter 2012/13 13 General News Bridges built to international markets upporting Africa’s farmers and manufacturers to meet the standards Srequired by international buyers is one of the key objectives of Partner Africa, a newly launched social enterprise established by Self Help Africa. The new not-for-profit company has been formed to provide training and support to African businesses wishing to trade internationally and meet the necessary standards, while at the same time offering auditing and other services to socially Factory workers at a Partner Africa training meeting in responsible western firms who wish to do business on the African continent. as workplace safety, health and hygiene, a range of With a focus on bridging the gap between employment conditions and management auditing services to leading international Africa and international markets, the new systems, Partner Africa’s team also provides brands including Cadbury, Coca-Cola, company utilizes a team of auditors and consultancy to African suppliers seeking to Diageo, Finlays and Sainsbury, and has also trainers across more than 20 African countries attain valuable internationally recognised provided community impact assessments that to provide a range of innovative ethical trade accreditation, including Fairtrade and enable international brands and retailers to consultancy services designed to support Rainforest Alliance certification. understand and report upon the benefits of African companies, including growers, and The company is operating in a broad range their socially-responsible investments in Africa. agri-food producers, manufacturers and trade of industries including cut-flowers, tea All surpluses that are generated by the organisations to meet international trade and coffee growing, food processing, fruit training and consultancy work of Partner standards. production, sugar, glass bottling and textile Africa are to be reinvested in the development Providing training and support in areas such manufacturing. The company has provided projects of Self Help Africa.

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A young mother of three children, Alisia Charles plans to improve her home when her husband “returns from his work in the mines in South Africa, next year. But it’s not only the money that he will bring back that will make this possible, for Alisia is already planning to breed and rear a litter of piglets in Local villagers preparing the fuel-efficient stoves for use the coming months that will give her ural Africans who are least to blame and supporting village groups across Malawi the finance that she needs to pay for but most at risk from the effects of to manufacture, produce and sell the new the building materials. A member of a Rglobal warming are in line to benefit fuel-saving mud-stoves in their communities pig-rearing group in Mabwera village from an enterprising new project that will as an income generating enterprise, and are in Central Malawi, Alisia has already allow them to indirectly access valuable measuring and auditing the ‘carbon savings’ ‘repaid’ the initial start-up piglets that international carbon trading markets. that are being accumulated by households she received so that another household Under the innovative new scheme, rural who use the new stoves. can benefit from the scheme, and is African communities who reduce their own The company hopes to support the planning to fatten and sell four pigs greenhouse gas emissions will be able to reap production and distribution of up to from her second litter, to boost her a carbon trading reward, with a proportion 50,000 fuel-efficient stoves as a part of income. of funds that are raised from their efforts to the new DISCOVER climate change project “Pig breeding is a good activity for be reinvested in activities that will help poor in the country (see story, page 6), and are me,” she says. ‘Because I am rearing communities to adapt to climate change. committed to re-investing a proportion of my three children on my own I don’t Self Help Africa partners in Malawi, Hestian revenues raised in Self Help Africa’s climate have as much time to work in the Innovations are behind the project, which adaptation work with small-scale farmers. fields. Rearing lifestock is profitable, is earning carbon offset funding ‘credits’ The improved stoves benefit communities in and I also use the manure to fertilise for the reduced greenhouse gases that are several ways – by reducing fuel needs and my fields and my vegetable garden”. emitted by African families who use fuel- smoke generated, and by providing a source saving cooking stoves. Hestian are training of income for villagers.

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