Self Help Africa is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization which set up in the United States in 2009, after 25 years of operation in Africa and Europe, with the aim of bringing its message of African futures to a wider audience.
The charity has a background as an Irish/UK organization, having been formed following the merger of UK NGO Harvest Help and Irish agency Self Help Development International.
The combined skills and complimentary experiences of decades of learning were then pooled together to form a strong, dynamic, and forward-thinking new organization.
Both charities were founded in the mid-1980s in response to the catastrophic Ethiopian famine and the droughts that plagued many central African countries. From the outset, our vision - separate but shared - was to help people manage their own futures with confidence. We have long recognized that African communities want to work their way out of poverty - what many of them lack is the support to do so.
Self Help Africa is committed to helping rural communities become self-reliant; encouraging participation of the poor at every stage of the development process.
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