There are purportedly 300,000-plus villages in rural Africa. We have not visited them. Some have however. These following represent some lessons to be learned if we are to hone our ‘value propositions.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJPdbtn2KM
“…Daily life in rural villages in West Africa, specifically in Mossi villages in Burkina Faso. I have included scenes of farming, harvesting, planting, cooking a meal, brewing beer, carving a mask, children playing with dolls and making their own masks, smelting and forging iron, spinning, weaving, a marriage, services in a Christian church and in a Muslim mosque, divination, sacrifices, a fashion show...” Christopher Ray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epdGEhLpReg
Down a muddy dirt road for several km…African village life in rural Tanzania…no electricity…subsistence farmers, maize, planting, growing, and harvest. Their main hope is for a good harvest.
“What you taught us to do,” she said, “is to calculate what our bottom line is. Before you came, I went to the market with my livestock and my produce, and just took the best price on offer. Now, all through the season, I calculate what I have invested in my produce, so that when I go to the market, I try to never sell below that bottom line.” …Helping the poor to make a profit will lead them out of poverty for good.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/w8989e/W8989E01.htm
Village Chicken Production System in Rural Africa [FAO-UN]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBtEK4fLfko
Cell Phone Charging Station in a remote African Village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K6V450StO4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yItlDXJOtEE
…in Ghana, West Africa — Well-driller Ken Wood has returned to Ghana eighteen times to drill water wells for local villages. His organization, Lifetime Wells for Ghana, has drilled over 600 wells in Ghana and has improved the quality of life for over 100,000 people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL_8SP7MznI
Samaria Mission drilling wells.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeuPBAY8c2Y
A Church gets a well in Nigeria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeuPBAY8c2Y
Live Drilling from Ethiopia – www.borninseptember.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfwh1hSWI6Q
Water well drilling in Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHVDm-B_l4g
Rural Energy Foundation, African villages lit up by solar power – Ashden Award winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q37PrFYqHw
Micro-banking and basic business skills are pre-requisite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy4Cunf-pG0
“…Here is a sneak peak of one of the schools in Mubende District, Uganda. It doesn’t cost a lot of money to rebuild a school in a village….“
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JgGio_EHsg
Apr 16, 2014 – The Learning Route on Farmers’ Organizations Supporting Family Farming Business took place in the Souss Massa Draa Region in Morocco, between the 20th to 25th January 2014 implemented by the PROCASUR Corporation in collaboration with the International Fund of Agricultural Development – IFAD and Diversity and Development. The main objective of this Route was to showcase how Farmer`s Organisations (FO) can be a major contributor towards improving livelihood of poor rural people, reducing poverty and attaining food security.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEN4hcZutO0
— Cote d’Ivoire in dire need of local beneficiation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSXwhYE_NcQ
“It starts with a seed” — Self Help Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7vEKinc-Lw
Ciara Kenny spent one month living with a rural community in Zambia’s Eastern Province, blogging for The Irish Times. — Self Help Africa.
MAIZE –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuONqQ5SnOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe9Mc-Sh44I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQfgGa35FB4
Water Efficient Maize for Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAUgXx_QxcM
Hunting for virus-resistant maize in East Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O22reYtlfNU
Planting Maize seeds with Feet in Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a10bMcyDODU
Grinding Cereals with Solar Milling. Maize, Barley, Wheat…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_aCHivQPso
http://www.kohwaholdings.com/index.php/our-services/80-joint-venture
http://www.top.pro/info/mission
Kohwa Holdings and Top Greenhouses develop greenhouses in rural villages to grow tomatoes for local & export markets — 1,000 sq. meters, 400K Rand to harvest stage including wages — 30K to 60K kg of tomatoes per year — 1,500 kg per month. Expert Knowledge is transferred to villagers to operate the greenhouse autonomously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NvHznGt7g
http://www.selfhelpafrica.org/us/zambia/banana-enterprise-development-project
Zambia Banana Enterprise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yolI1qM9Gmg
Uganda Beekeepers
EAST AFRICAN BEEKEEPERS EQUIPMENT LIMITED, KANSANGA, KAMPALA, UGANDA.
* Manufacturers of modern beekeeping equipment eg Langstroth beehives, bee suits, honey extractors, etc
* Training & Consultancy in apiculture
* Bee removal services
* Buyers and sellers of honey and bee equipment and
* Selling of young mated queens
Address & Reach Nos.
Off Ggaba Road, Next to Didi’s World,
Kansanga, Kampala, P.O.Box 24907, Kampala, Uganda.
Telephone: +256 (0)41-4345345
Mobile: +256 (0)772 464 103; +256 (0)772 501 485
Fax: +256 (0)41-4231578
Email: damshae@yahoo.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOyzE8n2T8s
…fisherfolk who are earning a living from cage fish farming on Zambia’s Lake Kariba. The communities around the fringes of the man-made lake are being supported by Self Help Africa with their new enterprise…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stcyyiH0ZN8
LakeHarvest Farming Tilapia in Zimbabwe — Sub Saharan Africa’s largest tilapia farming company — Lake Harvest which grows tilapia in cages on Lake Kariba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC47eG31myU
Rural Entrepreneur – Meet Meskerem Nimane a skilled seamstress. Find out how access to credit and support from Self Help Africa helped her to become a skilled business woman too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDSHWqg3H2c
Conservation Farming & Climate Smart Agriculture in Uganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WFjjWBjRF0
Chicken & Pig Farming in Uganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lesvJ7MTdQ
A Village in South Sudan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvA4-kApCl8
African Pottery of Kuli Village, Ghana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AJvTBeAUGY
…An oven fueled by rubbish in a small village in central Kenya is helping to transform the community. The community cooker runs entirely on rubbish collected from farms and houses, and allows families to cook their food for free, saving them money and time…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7PdW33f140
African rainforest village of Baringa, DRC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JIvjD43Vyg
Lunch in a West African village – “…Taga, a village south of Bobo-Dioulasso near Toussiana in Burkina Faso. It seems isolated. It has no electricity. Cooking is on charcoal. Water is carried from a well. But it has a connection with the wider world; the highway to Abidjan passes through Taga…”