Stories

Finally! Safe drinking water for school children in Marlon Zelaya!

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February 13, 2017
Marlon Zelaya is a rural community of about 600 people living outside of El Castillo in the southern state of Rio San Juan, Nicaragua.  Toda...

Nkontomire named the District’s Best School in Agriculture at National Farmers Day

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February 6, 2017
At Self-Help, we take an integrated approach to rural development. If we wish to improve nutrition for our people, we must teach them how to...
Anabel with her thank you note to donors

Meet Anabel: Ochomogo’s Newest Restaurant Owner

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January 23, 2017
“Thanks to Self-Help International and its program for helping us to work. We feel very thankful for this great opportunity of work to...

The Resources & Tools to Transform Meilly’s Life

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December 29, 2016
An update from Nicaragua Micro-Credit Officer, Yolanda Fletes: I am proud to share that we welcomed 8 more women entreprenuers into the micr...

Veronica’s First Home of Her Own

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December 21, 2016
Veronica is a fifty-seven-year-old mother of five living in Kwaso village in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Even though Veronica is from a poo...

Clean Water Saves on Healthcare Costs for Rural Nicaraguans

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November 28, 2016
Mexico is a rural community, considered a semi-urban settlement by the city hall of the municipality of San Carlos, located about 31 kilomet...

Leadership in Action at the Fred Strohbehn Training Center

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November 24, 2016
Since its construction four years ago, the Fred Strohbehn Training Center has hosted a great number of leaders from several communities in s...

Record Successes with Conservation Agriculture

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November 18, 2016
Minimizing Production Cost While Growing and Consuming More Protein In Ghana, the majority of farmers are subsistent— cultivating less than ...

“My sister is healthier because of you”

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November 4, 2016
Yesterday, the school feeding program staff, Nancy and Jesse, visited the community of  Bedabour for monitoring and met with Jasmine, a farm...

Akosua demonstrates creativity in her business

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October 28, 2016
Meet Akosua, a thirty-eight year old woman from Timeabu, a village of about 500 people in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Akosua is a mother of...

Life from Maribel’s Point of View

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October 28, 2016
Why I care and why you should too. Imagine standing in an overcrowded bus aisle without any air conditioning on a humid 95-degree day. The b...

The Skit

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October 4, 2016
At the end of September, the Teen Girls Club was officially inaugurated in the village of Bedaabour, Ghana.  It was a tremendous celebration...
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