Self Help Africa works with more than a dozen local partners on a range of programmes which focus on food production, and also encourage alternative ways for rural families to earn a living.
Programme activities have increased the availability of quality seed, which has led to a wider range of crops being grown and higher yields being produced by farm families.
Local Zambian partners manage the projects, with technical support from Self Help Africa's office in Lusaka. In January 2009 Self Help Africa entered into a joint-programme with the Norwegian Development organization Utviklingsfondet.
Self Help Africa began its work in Africa in Zambia in 1985. At that time the Voluntary Christian Service (VCS) took charge of a series of programmes that had been started by Leo and Ginnie Goodfellow, who had been working with the Tongo people on the shores of Lake Kariba.
Our work in Zambia is funded by the European Commission, Big Lottery Fund, DFID, Norad, EMIS and other supporters of Self Help Africa and the Utviklingsfondet. |
Formerly the territory of 'Northern Rhodesia' the state was named Zambia upon securing its independence in 1964.
In recent decades, declining copper prices and prolonged droughts have hurt the economy. The country is landlocked, and with a natural riverine border (the Zambezi) with neighbouring Zimbabwe. It faces extensive social and environmental challenges, including those resulting from an increasing population, soil erosion; desertification; and inadequate water treatment facilities.
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