Stories

Learning to Feel Comfortable in Their Own Skin

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December 19, 2017
As part of our ongoing training and advising, as well as micro-loan disbursement and collection, SHI micro-credit officers Yolanda and Arace...

Expanding Training & Micro-Loans to New Communities Thanks to YOU!

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December 12, 2017
Happy Holidays!  Thank you to all who are reading this: your support this past year has made a tremendous difference to hundreds of families...

Partnering for Healthier, Hunger-Free Communities

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December 11, 2017
By August 2017, Self-Help International Teen Girls Club had been operational for a year with a goal helping teen girls stay in school and co...

Evading the Attack by Fall Armyworm

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November 28, 2017
“I am scared to death about fall armyworm,” Dr. Pedro Sanchez said in the opening day of the World Food Prize’s 2017 Borlaug Dia...

Taking it to the Farmer: Applying Skills Learned

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November 13, 2017
Skills Learned and Implemented in the Field The Fred Strohbehn Training Center has had been quite busy the past few months with five differe...

Meeting My Children’s Needs After Galamsey

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November 3, 2017
“I started ‘galamsey’ in Wasa when I was a teenager. One day I went out to do ‘galamsey’ with my best friend and unfortunately, she fell int...

“Koko helps kill our hunger”

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October 18, 2017
“Some children have to walk 8 kilometers [5 miles] to come to school in the morning,” the Headmaster told me. “The children arrive hungry.” ...

Engaging a Community through Stove Building

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September 28, 2017
by Yolanda Fletes & Edelia Cruz Torres – Micro-Credit Program Officers It has been a busy few months for Self-Help’s micro-credit ...
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A Thankful Heart

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September 21, 2017
In Beposo, Ghana, a woman stands beaming in front of her newly built, brightly painted provisions store, the shelves fully stocked and doors...

Gifty’s Gift of Health

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September 14, 2017
“I am thankful to SHI for the gift of national health insurance. With this I can visit the clinic and have my body examined,”  said Gifty wi...
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Hope for the Incarcerated

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September 12, 2017
Amanfrom Prison Camp is a minimum security prison for convicts who have less than a year to complete their sentences. Last September, we wor...

So you have clean water. What now?

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August 23, 2017
Give a community a clean water chlorinator, they’ll drink for a month. Teach a community to organize and they’ll drink clean water for a lif...
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