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Empowered Women Empower Women

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September 16, 2016
About 32 miles by motorcycle from Self-Help’s Nicaragua office, lies a small and vibrant community called Las Azucenas. In a small and quiet...
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Building a More Peaceful World

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September 8, 2016
Ghana is blessed with many natural resource but remains underdeveloped, partly because the citizens are overly dependent on the central gove...
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Lessons Through Experiences of a Self-Help Intern Abroad

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August 29, 2016
I had no idea what I would be getting into when I took my first steps out of the airplane that humid night in May. I couldn’t picture it, li...
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Got your period? No more school for you.

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August 27, 2016
In September 2015, Self-Help International hosted our first ever Leadership Summit to celebrate the strongest leaders in our women’s m...
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‘Capacitación’ at SHI Nicaragua’s Training Center

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August 23, 2016
Although it was a rainy day at Self Help’s office in Quinta Lidia, it did not stop local community members from attending a capacitación (tr...
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Meet Adelina

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August 17, 2016
By Jacqueline Steinkamp – Communications Intern, Self-Help Nicaragua Early in the morning, the sun beams its light into small wooden c...
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23 Communities Gather to Discuss Clean Water

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August 11, 2016
We love focusing on success stories, but installing clean water in rural communities is not all we do: we educate rural communities about ho...
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Celebrating Lydia’s progress

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July 20, 2016
Two years ago, we shared Lydia’s story with you.  Providing for her family was a daily struggle. But she used a micro-loan in 2013 to ...
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Back to School: Farmers learn to produce mushroom spawn!

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June 22, 2016
By Benjamin Kusi – Country Director Since opening its doors in 2014, the Frances Mueller and Virginia Lageschulte Training Centre has ...
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The Best Water in All of El Castillo

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June 15, 2016
Salvador Fletes and his companion Gonzalo sit at a worn wooden table after a long day of work, relaxing in the dusk glow and laughing back a...
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Osei’s Story: Saving the Environment While Earning a Living

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June 1, 2016
For fifteen years, Osei worked as a timber merchant. He would go to the forest to cut down trees, send them to his factory, and cut them int...
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10 Farmers to Plant QPM Seed Corn this Season

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June 1, 2016
As we shared in the last update in March, our Nicaragua Quality Protein Maize (QPM) team has been working hard to re-introduce QPM and QPM s...
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