| | |  |  | | | Sand2Snow duo planning 15,000km odyssey for Self Help Africa | Two young Irishmen who are planning to cycle, run and raft more than 15,000 kilometres across the world this year have set themselves a target of raising €50,000 for Self Help Africa with their effort.
Maghnus Collins-Smyth from Limerick and David Burns from Coleraine will set off from Istanbul, Turkey in April, and will traverse half the globe before arriving in Shanghai, China, in late Autumn. Their incredible expedition is being organised to benefit Self Help Africa's work. | |
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| Supporting close to one million cope with climate change | Self Help Africa embarks on a major new programme this Spring that will support nearly one million people in Malawi to adapt to climate variability.
|  | The scheme, which has received funding support of more than £10m from the United Kingdom Department of Foreign and Overseas Development (DFID), Irish Aid and the Norwegian Embassy in Malawi will help more than 900,000 rural people |
| | across the Southern African country to cope with and adapt to changing climate. Work is being undertaken by a consortium of international and local development partners across Malawi. | |
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| Loreto schools team up on book project | Self Help Africa has teamed up with a network of close to a dozen Loreto Secondary Schools from across Ireland to produce the third in our award-winning series of books on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The third book in the 'Twenty Fifteen' series is underway, with students from Loreto Schools from Dublin, Meath, Derry, Tyrone, Kilkenny and Cork collaborating on the creation of an MDG book looking at the issue of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment. All of the students involved have participated in workshops on gender, organised by Self Help Africa's development education unit.
Schools who are taking part in the MDG project include Loreto Schools from Rathfarnham, Balbriggan, Dalkey and Swords in Dublin, from Kilkeny, Coleraine, Omagh, Navan, Letterkenny and Fermoy. Self Help Africa's Dev Ed coordinator spoke on the subject at the Loreto Order's Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation conference, last year. |
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| BBC Radio 4 Appeal | Gardeners Question Time presenter and popular celebrity gardener Pippa Greenwood has lent her support to Self Help Africa, with an appeal that went out on the airwaves on BBC Radio 4, last year.
Pippa presented the weekly charity appeal on behalf of Self Help Africa on the station - and to date the effort has succeeded in raising upwards of €20,000 euro to support our work. | |
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| News from Africa | | The support that we get from the general public and our other donors makes our African programmes possible. Read below a sample of just some of the things that have been happening recently with the people with whom we are working in Africa. | | | | | | |
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| Hats on for Africa! |  | | Hats on for Africa is a new campaign from Self Help Africa, dedicated to encouraging primary school children to get their thinking hats on about the problems facing Africa today. | |
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| Twitter grows to 5,000 |  | Self Help Africa's following on twitter has grown to almost 5,000 in the past year. |
| | If you use the social media platform and want to stay in touch with our daily updates click on the icon above and join our twitter family. |
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| Students win award for dairy project |  | | | A project by two 15 year old Carlow students has collected the prestigious Self Help Africa organised 'Science for Development' Award at this year's BT Young Scientists Exhibition.
Keane Nolan and DJ Hanley from St Mary's Academy, Carlow, received the award from Overseas Development and Trade Minister Joe Costello at the science showcase at the RDS in Dublin, recently. Their winning award looked at the question of dairy pasturisation in the developing world. | |
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| Combines go for new world record | The Irish farmers who shattered the world record for the largest ever combine harvesting event ever staged, are set to attempt to reclaim their crown, with another grand spectacle, this Summer.
Following their remarkable 2009 feat - which succeeded in raising more than €300,000 for four designated charities, the organisers saw their Guinness World Record surpassed by a farming group in far off Canada.
But now their back, with the objective to retake the world record at a massive family fun day they will be organising in Duleek, Co. Meath, this Summer. Self Help Africa received €75,000 following the group's record breaker, in 2009. | |
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| | More than 'humanitarian fix' needed in Horn | Up to 10 million people in East Africa faced the spectre of famine, when drought causing failures across wide areas of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
“This East African crisis is real, and needs an immediate humanitarian fix. But it doesn’t need to be that way in the future”, said Ray Jordan, Self Help Africa's CEO.
“Steps can and must be taken to increase food production amongst small-holder farmers, who account for up to 80% of the population in affected areas. It is a bitter irony that the people who are most at risk of the current famine threat are communities who are best placed to solve the problem’,” he stated. | |
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| | Gates acclaim for seed video | | | | A promotional video highlighting the key role that seed has to play for Africa's rural farmers has been named 'best video' in a campaign organised by The Gates Foundation.
The clip 'It Starts with a Seed' (above) was named the video winner in the Foundation's 'Answering the Challenge for Smallholder Farmers initiative, launched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, last month.
Speaking about the video, Bill Gates said: 'I enjoyed this movie about seeds, especially because I’m so optimistic about the potential for improved seeds to help small farmers confront the drought, pests, and diseases that can destroy their crops. The best thing is that all this creative energy and talent was inspired by small farmers.' | | | |
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| | New look publications |  | Self Help Africa's new look annual newsletter for 2011-2012 is now out, and is available to view online. Click here to check it out. |
|  | Self Help Africa's annual report is now available, giving an overview of our work across nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2010.
Click here to download a copy or read online here
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| | Recycling Appeal |  | Self Help Africa is pleased to announce a new partnership with The Recycling Appeal.
Transform old unwanted mobile phones and ink cartridges into meaningful change.
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|  | | SHA at the ploughing | Self Help Africa met with hundreds of our friends and supporters at the recent National Ploughing Championships in Athy.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin, and a host of figures from politics and public life were amongst those who joined us at the NPC, which is a date in the diary for Self Help Africa, and an opportunity to catch up with our many friends from the farming community.
Pictured above - Self Help Africa's Ronan Scully meets presidential hopeful Mary Davis at the National Ploughing Championships. |
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|  | | | | A young Irish journalist spent a remarkable five weeks, writing and blogging from a remote rural community in Zambia, late last year. 25-year-old Ciara Kenny travelled with Self Help Africa to the village of Makwatata, Zambia, and filed daily 'blogs' and pictorial reports on the lives of the local community. Her writings and pictures were hosted at The Irish Times during her visit, and can now be read here. |
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Second Floor, Westgate House,Dickens Court,
Hills Lane, Shrewsbury, SY1 1QU
Tel. +44 (0) 1743 277170 |
| Self Help Africa - Ireland
Kingsbridge House, 17-22 Parkgate Street,
Dublin 8, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Tel. +353 (0)1 6778880 |
| Self Help Africa Inc.
41 Union Square West, Suite 631
New York, NY 10003, USA
Tel. +1 212 206 0847 |
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| | Self Help Africa is an international charity registered in Ireland and the United Kingdom Registered charity number: 6663 (Ireland), and 298830 (UK)
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