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Newsletter 2008.hpaica.co
lastingdevelopmentfor a betterfuture
building blocksfor the future3an emotionaljourney10developmenteducation12
 
introduction
how self help africa works
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self help africa newsletter 2008
Da suppo,Fo co o 25 ya,s Hp Aica ha bnoking o aiapoy and ain,and hp o o ho diadanagdcounii in hod o a b i.I i changing bu hugy adingok o a inod, and  aouna o ha a a in Iand,h Unid Kingdo, and aco Aicaho ho coin and coonpupo ha i abo and byond hca o duy, in hi puui o hi goa.F ho ha ind h y an o achin and aiacion– on h ac o a ho haanod hi hoding inogadn o pny, o in h xpiono oh no aning ony andab o nd hi chidn o choo,oud dipu ha ou ‘-hp’appoach o uainab dopn,i h ay o achi ong- aingchang in Aica.th goba conoic donun ocn onh, ooing a i did haaing inaion in goba ood andu pic, undin h uncaini in hich  i. Nonh, ii o ping and ugn han o u o pay ou pa, and hp hpop o Aica o ha hy can oncand o a cap h poy ap inhich hy ha id o a oo ong.s Hp Aica i indbd o a hoho ha uppod u o h ya.wihou hi uppo ou ok oudno b poib. w ha achid aga da in h pa qua cnuy,and ha abiiou pan o dio poga o o pop inh uu.w hop ha you i join on hi jouny, a  k o aiz ou iiono an Aica ha i  o poyand hung in h ya o co.You incy,ray Jodan
Chie Executive
 
A brighter uture or Arica
‘s Hp Aica’ i a ua dopn agncy ha ok in couni in sub-sahaa, o ipo h i o Aica’ poo pop.
Sel Help Arica works with local sta, partners and local communities in Ethiopia, Eritrea,Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Togo and Burkina Faso -Enabling people to grow enough ood so that they can eed themselves all year roundImproving opportunities or people to earn a living and support their amiliesProviding Aricans with the skills they need to move out o poverty, and manage theiruturesImproving access to basic social services such as clean drinking water, health-care, andeducation.Supporting local communities to preserve and rehabilitate their natural environmentThrough advocacy, partnerships, dissemination, and best practice, seek to inuencepolicies and attitudes in both Arica and the West, to issues That aect the lives orural Aricans.Sel Help Arica has ambitious plans - to eect change, and deliver more support to morepeople. Support us as we seek to provide more Aricans with the training, the skills, and thetools to lead a lie ree rom hunger, poverty and need.
Sel Help Arica at work
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foreword
challenges and opportunities
self help africa newsletter 2008
 
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th hioic ingaion a u oHa Hp and s Hp DopnInnaiona o ca s Hp Aica haabihd a n and iban ogania-ion hich can ak an n gaconibuion in ocoing poy andhung in Aica.
Our dynamic sta and partners throughout ournine countries o operation in Arica are doingantastic work supporting rural amilies andcommunities work their way out o poverty.We are seeing success in all our areas o opera-tion and one o our major challenges or theyears ahead is to build on that success. Wehave a proven track record o success overnearly a quarter o a century but the challeng-es still remain at every level o our operations.As an organisation our shared vision is to seean Arica ree rom poverty and hunger. We re-main frmly committed to the philosophies andethos which were instrumental in the oundingo both Harvest Help and Sel Help Develop-ment International.Our ambition is to dramatically build upon thisproven success by scaling up our own workand as importantly by sharing our knowledgewith other organisations. I we are to see realand lasting development in Arica we needto work in more eective collaboration withlike minded organisations and inuence policychange at all levels.
Focu
The global spike in world ood prices during2008 put into sharp ocus the critical impor-tance o ood production or the world’s poor.As a consequence o this crisis, and the ood ri-ots that erupted in many parts o the develop-ing world, our major international institutionswere prompted to acknowledge the crucialrole that rural agriculture had to play in eorts
An Historic Merger
to reduce global poverty.The Secretary General o the UN Ban Ki-Moonsingled out the role to be played by small-hold-ing armers, when he addressed an emergencysummit that was convened by the United Na-tions in Rome to address the crisis, last July.The UK’s ‘Arica Progress Panel’ joined thechorus, when it called or substantial new in-vestment to raise agricultural productivity andincrease ood production in Arica and aroundthe world, while Ireland’s Hunger Task Forceidentifed improving smallholder productivityin Arica as the number one priority, when itpublished its report at the conclusion o morethan a year o deliberation, in September.
Ou wok
The role o ood production at arm house-hold, and at community levels, has been at theheart o the work o Sel Help Arica since themid-1980s.It will remain central to our mission, as wework side by side with Arican communities,
 
th Fuu
Sel Help Arica is now working directly, and with local partners, in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zambia, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, Ghana, Togo andBurkina Faso.We are committed to delivering the very best practice to our development programmes, and to sharing the experiences and the learningo the past into the uture.We look orward also to establishing new alliances in our bid to tackle the enormous challenge o global poverty and hunger, and toworking to a common purpose with others engaged in development, to achieve this goal.Sel Help Arica is grateul to the committed supporters and donors who have been a key part o the organisation or the last quarter oa century. Your support is essential to the ongoing growth o Sel Help Arica, and we look orward to being in touch with you again in2009.
From left : Steve Langdon, UK director, Ray Jordan, CEO, Nigel Clarke, UK chairman, and Tom Corcoran, Irishchairman, at the launch of Self Help Africa, in London, last Summer.
to help them to achieve better incomes, betterliving conditions, and better opportunities ortheir amilies, in the years to come.These opportunities are being created orthousands o rural Arican amilies each day,as a result o the ongoing work o Sel HelpArica and its partners. Simple, but eectivemeasures are enabling households to doubleand treble incomes, by ensuring better qualityseed stock is available, by promoting newcrop varieties, by supporting alternate incomegenerating activities, access to credit, and byhelping small-scale armers to organize intolocal co-operatives, to market and sell theirproduce.Improving access to health services, to cleanwater, to better sanitation, and to educationis also making an important contribution -strengthening local services so that uture gen-erations in Arica can enjoy better standards ohealth, a reduction in lie threatening disease,and the passport to a better uture that can beprovided by education. 
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