From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2008 - 06:50:51 EDT
Minister launches Africa development agency
05/08/2008 - 08:42:21
Overseas Development Minister Peter Power will launch a new Irish
development agency today focusing on eradicating poverty in Africa.
Self Help Africa is the result of a recent Anglo-Irish merger between
Irish NGO Self Help Development International and the UK-based charity
Harvest Help.
Both groups have been working for the past 25 years implementing
programmes to allow rural Africans grow enough food to earn a living.
Self Help Development International was set up in Ireland in 1984 in
response to the devastating famine in Ethiopia.
One of its first sources of major investment was Bob Geldof’s Band Aid
Trust, which provided more than ˆ640,000 to carry out a rural
development project in Ethiopia.
Harvest Help was established in the United Kingdom following a wave of
droughts in Zambia in 1985.
The new agency, Self Help Africa, works in nine African countries –
Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Togo and
Zambia.
It has no expatriate staff in the field, but instead employs local
employees and works through partners and communities on all its
projects, with a core staff of just 10 in Ireland and seven in the UK.
They provide support by ensuring simple and effective innovations to
farming, managing
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