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Entire Village Gathers to Inaugurate Teen Girls Clubs

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September 30, 2016
September 23, 2016 was a truly special day. After months of organizing girls, listening to their needs and challenges, and designing a progr...
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Is it safe to eat eggs when you have your period?

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September 27, 2016
That was one of the genuine questions asked during the women’s health training session we held in Timeabu last week: “Is it safe...
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Clean Water – Not Just a Drop in the Bucket

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September 21, 2016
Thanks to your support, we were able to install the 88th water chlorination system in southern Nicaragua, bringing clean, safe drinking wate...
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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
By Jacqueline Steinkamp, Communications & Policy Intern at Self-Help Nicaragua during summer 2016  I had no idea what I would be getting...
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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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