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A group of children from Ireland and Africa enjoy a bite during the official launch of Self Help Africa's inaugural National Sandwich Day,  in Dublin recently

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Self Help Africa is an 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.

Our all-African staff and local partners will this year help hundreds of thousands of people to work their way out of poverty. We 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 almost 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.
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Events and activities are starting to take shape across the country, including a highly successful kids 'K-Factor' show in Kilkenny recently. Read more from the campaign trail......
National Sandwich Day is kindly supported by Pat the Baker. Contact the county co-ordinator in your area to find out how you can get Pat's famous fresh loaves, to make your sandwiches.
Munchies outlets in Dublin have also thrown their weight behind the campaign, making a donation to Self Help Africa from every sandwich that they sell on November 14th next.

National Sandwich Day - Friday, 14th November

TAKE PART in Ireland’s very first ever National Sandwich Day- have fun, and play your part in supporting some of Africa’s poorest people.

On the day, people across Ireland will be encouraged to make and sell sandwiches to their work, school, college or sports colleagues, and donate the proceeds to Self Help Africa.

National Sandwich Day is the centre-piece event of a ten weeks fund-raising campaign being undertaken by Self Help Africa in Autumn, 2008, with the objective to raise one million euro for the organisation's work.

Announcing details of the campaign, Self Help Africa chief executive Ray Jordan said that millions of African people were facing severe food shortages and increasing prices.

By supporting Self Help Africa Sandwich Day, Irish people could play an important part in ensuring that families in Africa have enough to eat and have the tools to become self sufficient.

Self Help Africa has appointed county co-ordinators in each of the 26 counties, to support and co-ordinate fund-raising efforts by supporters and volunteers in each county, in the lead up to National Sandwich Day, and during the Autumn campaign.
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Self Help works in partnership with local communities to implement a broad range of programme activities, including crop production, irrigated horticulture, livestock development, improving access to health and education, natural resource management, and measures to combat HIV/AIDS, and gender inequality
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Self Help works in partnership with local communities to implement a broad range of programme activities, including crop production, irrigated horticulture, livestock development, improving access to health and education, natural resource management, and measures to combat HIV/AIDS, and gender inequality
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