From: TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION <africahelpinitiative@gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 09:23:42 +0100
Subject: WE NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE!!!


AFRICA HELP INITIATIVE

* Adding a positive voice to the teaming suffering
African children and families*



AFRICA HELP INITIATIVE

HEAD OFFICE: 21RD, G, CLOSE, HOUSE 18,

FESTAC TOWN LAGOS NIGERIA

PRIVATE EMAIL: africahelpinitiative@live.com, africahelpinitiative@gmail.com
WEBSITE: *www.africahelpinitiative.ng*

Tel:+234-806-881-0185 or 011-234-545-04271



AFRICA HELP INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILY.



Where we work

Africa help initiativeworks at grassroots level in nine African countries,
tackling poverty and improving the lives of local communities with its
headquarters in Nigeria.

The organisation works both with its own African staff, and through local
partners to undertake a range of integrated development programmes amongst
rural communities in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,
Togo, Uganda and Zambia.

How We Work

Africa help initiative works at grassroots level tackling poverty and
improving lives.

Our primary focus is on assisting families and communities to grow enough
food to feed themselves and to earn a sustainable living.

We promote and support the implementation of simple and effective
innovations to farming, managing natural resources, and helping people
access basic services like clean water, healthcare and education.

Africa help initiative has almost-five years experience in bringing
lasting solutions to poverty for Africa’s rural poor.

Practical Solutions

Self Help has adopted and embraced a wide variety of innovative
technologies to assist the people we work with to achieve sustainability in
their lives.

The technologies and approaches are many and varied, and are devised as
cost effective and practical ways of tackling the very real challenges
faced by Africa's rural poor.

The solutions (listed right) are just a sample of some of the approaches
being promoted by Self Help.

These include measures to increase on-farm productivity, to optimise the
use of available water and resources, to support income generation, to
rehabilitate the natural environment, and to reduce the amount of time and
effort that poor people must expend to do the most basic tasks.

Almost without exception they are activities that rely on the active
participation of the local people themselves, and in many instances are
solutions being put forward by the people.

Africa Help Initiative believes that lasting, long term change will only
come if the communities, or the individual farmers themselves, are involved
at every turn in the development process.

Agriculture & food production

One in three people in Africa is hungry, and most of these hungry people
live on small farms.

That’s about 240 million people.

Food production has fallen behind population growth for most of the past
two decades, and the number of undernourished people is expected to
increase another 30 per cent over the next ten years to reach 645 million.

Under a 'business-as-usual' scenario, with the effects of climate change
taken into account, the number of undernourished people in Sub-Saharan
Africa could triple between 1990 and 2080.

That's the bad news.

The good news is that most African farms have a medium to high potential
for increased productivity. So farms that produce not enough, could produce
much more.

For a quarter of a century, Africa Help Initiative has believed that the
key to reducing hunger lies in small farms. It's about treating farming as
a business, helping farmers to grow food, increase output, and make a
profit from their efforts.

And many others are now coming to the same conclusion.

At the World Food Summit in Rome in late 2009, the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations said: "The international community
recognizes it has neglected agriculture for many years. Sustained
investment in agriculture - especially small-holder agriculture - is
acknowledged as the key to food security."

And UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon concluded - "Our job is not just to
feed the hungry, but to empower the hungry to feed themselves."

Some African countries have reduced hunger in recent years. Which ones?

The ones that invested in agriculture – Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Malawi,
Rwanda.

Africa Help Initiative doesn’t distribute food aid.

For 5 years, we’ve distributed food knowledge – new seed, irrigation
advice, small loans, access to markets, farming advice, resource
management. This helps farmers grow more food.

We believe that with inputs such as these, farmers will lift their families
and communities out of hunger and poverty.

How you can help

There are many ways that you can help us in our work.

In 2010 our programmes in Africa will help close to one million people to
grow more food and earn a better living for themselves and their families.

That is only possible thanks to the support we receive from you, the public.

You can help by:

Make a once off donation or become a regular giver

Organise a fundraising event

In the past year supporters of Africa Help Initiative have run marathons
and mini-marathons, undertaken sponsored parachute jumps, organised coffee
mornings, arranged charity cycles, hosted charity lunches, run mini-soccer
tournaments and sponsored golfing events - you could do the same. The range
of options for helping in this way is almost endless. Contact us on
+2348068810185 and speak to one of our fundraisers about how you could
help.

Set up a staff fund at work

Payroll giving is a great way for you and your work colleagues involved in
supporting our work. The smallest amount can be deducted from wages each
week or month, and it is tax free.

Buy gifts from Africa Help Initiative

At Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day and for birthdays and other holidays
every year we sell, for you to sponsor beehives, seed, water kits, poultry
and much more. We issue shoppers with attractive certificates and cards
with each purchase - it's a very tangible way to help an individual, family
or community in Africa.



FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT SUFFERING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN AFRICA

AFRICA HELP INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILY

EXTREME POVERTY IN AFRICA



*major problems facing Africa today*

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*A* child dies every three seconds from AIDS and extreme poverty, often
before their fifth birthday.

More than one billion people do not have access to clean water. (global)

Every year six million children die from malnutrition before their fifth
birthday. (sources: UNICEF, WHO)

*M*ore than 50 percent of Africans suffer from water-related diseases such
as cholera and infant diarrhea.

(source: *World Health Org.*)



*M*ore than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day, 300 million are
children. (global stats: UNAIDS)



Of these 300 million children, only eight percent are victims of famine or
other emergency situations.



*M*ore than 90 percent are suffering long-term malnourishment and
micro-nutrient deficiency.



*world poverty facts and statistics *

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*I**n sub-Saharan Africa, measles takes the life of a child nearly every
minute of every day. An effective measles vaccine costs as little as $1 per
child.* (source: WHO)