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Self Help Africa works in 17 countries across Africa and in Bangladesh and Brazil, tackling poverty and improving the lives of local communities.

Our mission is to alleviate hunger, poverty, social inequality, and the impact of climate change. We achieve this through community-led, market-based and enterprise focused approaches to agricultural development, ensuring that people have access to: 
• Nutritious food
• Decent incomes and employment 
• Clean water and basic services
• All while sustaining natural resources. 

Approaches include:
• Enterprise development
• Agriculture & Nutrition
• WASH
• Climate Change
• Gender
• Micro finance
• Cooperatives

Our core areas of focus are: 
• Sustainable landscapes, resilient food systems and healthy communities.
• Sustainable businesses, decent employment and thriving economies.
• Crisis response and resilience.
• System strengthening and an enabling policy environment.

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