› Home › About Self Help › Contact Us › Current Projects Burkina Faso Ethiopia Eritrea Ghana Kenya Malawi Togo Uganda Zambia › Activities in Ireland › Activities in UK Events Calendar › Technologies › Case Studies › History 20 Year Highlights › How You Can Help What Your Money is Doing Regular Giving Fund-Raising Suggestions One Click Donation Corporate Seed Fund Farmers Grow Fund Volunteering Tax Relief on Donations › Fund-Raising Field Visits 2007 Kenya 2006 Eritrea 2005 -Kenya-Uganda-Malawi 2001-2004 From the Archives › Africa Alive Schools Programme Recent School News School Visits Curriculum Publications Student & Teacher Impressions Pictures Download Young Scientists Exhibition School Profiles (coming soon) › Exhibitions Africa Framed Value of Rubbish › Testimonials › Media Centre Press Releases Articles on Self Help Activities Related Topics › Reports / Studies › Useful Links › Glossary of Terms › Secure Page › Recruitment › Forum Fusa SACCO, Ethiopia           Case Studies › Fusa SACCO        When the women of Fusa in Huruta, Ethiopia, learned of plans to set up a local savings and credit co-operative, there was a high level of interest in the idea in their village. More than 20 women signed up to undergo the necessary training, and the community itself set about building an office from which the SACCO group could operate. Following the training programme, which showed the members how they must record all transactions and administer the running of their local SACCO, almost all of the group elected for additional training – so that they would know how to successfully grow fruit and vegetables under irrigated conditions, how to rear poultry, and how to successfully fatten and sell livestock. Self Help provided them with each with a starter pack of seed with which to begin productions, and within months, the first dividends of their efforts were being seen. ‘I started by growing vegetables, and sold a quantity of onions in the market. With this money I borrowed from the SACCO, and am now fattening an oxen’, says Kelmwa Adunya, a mother of four. Ethiopia Activities          Ethiopia          ›› Ethiopia Home ›› Ethiopia News                   Case Studies          ›› More Info                                        Self Help Africa is a limited liability company. Company number: 105601 Charity No. 6663 (Ireland) The organisation has offices in Ireland at: Annefield House, Dublin Road, Portlaoise, Co. Laois Tel: 00 353 (0)57 8694034 - Fax: 00 353 (0)57 8694038, and in the United Kingdom at : Second Floor Suite, Westgate House, Dickens Court, Off Hills Lane, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 1QU. Tel : 0044-(0)1743 277170        We welcome your comments: info@selfhelpafrica.com        Powered by: go2web