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Jan 2013
Enough Food For Everyone
Rainbow Development in Africa is a member of the IF campaign on food and hunger. Nearly one billion people go to bed hungry every night and two million children die from malnutrition every year...
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Apr 2013
Spreading the Word via Radio
Roughly every two weeks partner ADMAPE participates in discussions on the local Kaedi FM radio station about environmental degradation and climate change. They are also involved...
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Apr 2013
Market Gardening
In addition to the seventy women’s market garden cooperatives that have been involved in our activities to date, this year local partner ADMAPE has worked directly with a further thirteen, comprising 652 members. Each of these...
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Apr 2013
Sylla Women's Market Garden Seminar
The extension year to this four-year project concluded with a seminar where successes as well as lessons learnt were discussed. Eighty-six people participated...
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Apr 2013
Working With Farmers
Intensification and diversification for rice farmers: work has continued with two demonstration irrigation farmers with rice production now at an average of 8 tons per hectare (as opposed to the previous 5 to 6 tons). Compost pits have...
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Apr 2013
Livestock Health
Ba Djiby, left, is one of the two pastoralist Livestock Health practitioners we have trained and equipped to tour their respective regions inoculating animals against common diseases and passing on knowledge...
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Apr 2013
Well Digging
The Leqceiba well has reached 17 meters and is now awaiting the height of the dry season in order to be completed. Six thousand people from this small town of
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Jan 2013
Credit Enterprise Update
Currently, the sum circulating is £5,500. This is being used by 13 different women’s groups numbering some 1,200 women...
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Aug 2012
Big Walk: Section 5 completed – Presteigne to Bristol
A keen set of local walkers headed out from Presteigne (home of Rainbow) towards Hay-on-Wye via Kington on the Welsh border. Here a group of (very) Old Amplefordians took over...
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Sep 2011
Big Walk : Section 4 Completed - Garsdale to Presteigne
A fantastic stage from Garsdale in Cumbria to Presteigne in Wales, home of Rainbow, with many walkers joining Peter along the way...
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Jun 2011
Launch of 'Friends' of Rainbow Development in Africa
Representing extremely good 'value for money' in that we conduct very effective development work on a very modest budget 90% of which goes directly to projects...
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Rainbow Development in Africa works with farmers and farming communities in southern Mauritania and northern Senegal, West Africa.
Working always through local partners, our objectives are food security and sustainable livelihoods. We dig wells, promote organic farming methods and environmental protection, provide training programs, agricultural services and much else.
Our core commitments remain:
To provide direct, grassroots assistance.
To focus on the causes of poverty.
To maximise cost efficiency.
To foster confidence and self-determination amongst Africans.