Self Help Africa
How can Bike Africa help? -
By supporting the work of Self Help Africa, ‘Bike Africa’ will provide us with valuable funding support for our programmes – in both Ethiopia and Kenya.
Ethopia -
Education has been a key activity in Self Help Africa’s integrated development approach in Ethiopia – and in the past decade the organisation has built more than a dozen new schools in the country.
“Within months of a new school being opened we usually find that the facilities are over-subscribed. To tackle the problem of overcrowding the school authorities usually institute system of shifts – with younger children attending classes in the morning, and older students in the afternoon”.
“Bike Africa’s ambition to support education in Ethiopia is a very worthy one, and their objective to raise €15,000 would allow us to construct an additional two-classroom block at one of our schools”.
Self Help Africa CEO Ray Jordan.
Kenya – Eburra Grain Store, Gilgil, Kenya -
The construction of farm stores provides African farmer groups with a centralised area where they can deposit their produce for storage, and subsequent collection and transportation to market.
Traditional wooden huts are susceptible to rain and rodents, and the grain is often ruined. Brick built huts are a cost effective way to addressing this problem, and a vital component in the efforts to organise local farmers into co-operative groups – so that they can come together and negotiate better prices for their surplus produce.
400 farm households who are members of the Eburra Farmers Association in Gilgil, Kenya, will benefit from the construction of a new grain store, at a cost of approximately €16,500, in their community.
Self Help Africa CEO Ray Jordan.
About SELF HELP AFRICA -
Self Help Africa is an Irish based international development agency that works at grassroots level tackling poverty and improving lives in rural Africa.
Self Help Africa’s primary focus is assisting families and communities to grow enough food to feed themselves and to earn a sustainable living.
The charity’s all-African staff and local partners will this year help hundreds of thousands of people to work their way out of poverty. They will do this by bringing simple and effective innovations to farming, managing natural resources and helping people access basic services like clean water, healthcare and education.
Self Help Africa has twenty-five years experience in bringing lasting solutions to poverty for Africa’s rural poor. We work in Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Togo, Uganda and Zambia.Self Help Africa uses a wide variety of innovative technologies to assist the people we work with to achieve sustainability in their lives.
These approaches are cost effective and practical ways of tackling the very real challenges faced by Africa’s rural poor.
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Hi Guys. I’d like to wish you well with your upcoming epic adventure. It will be a truly amazing experience, and it’s great that you are trying to give something back to the people of Africa, from your efforts.
Self Help Africa is delighted to be associated with your efforts – and we wish you well in the weeks and months ahead.