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Why Invest in Teen Girls?

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March 14, 2017
Who is the most important woman in your life? Your mother? Your grandmother? Your daughter? Your sister? Your spouse? What if she had never ...
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Creating enterprises, ensuring sustainability

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March 6, 2017
At Self-Help, we’re all about helping people help themselves. So after we heard from the girls that they definitely liked the Days for Girls...
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Timeabu Teens: When we got our periods, we used to go hungry

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March 1, 2017
“Having the Days for Girls kits saves us money,” Mariatu said. “Yes,” Windolina chimed in, “I used to have to ...
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Fatima’s Success

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February 28, 2017
On January 19th, 2016, for the first time, six-year-old Fatima experienced her first day of school in a small village in the Ashanti region ...
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Hatching New Ideas: The Young Entrepreneur from La Rampla

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February 21, 2017
This year, we started our training sessions early at the Fred Strohbehn Training Center in Nicaragua to get a head start with the growi...
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Skills Training Inspires New Business Ventures

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February 15, 2017
In addition to offering general business training and micro-loans, from time to time Self-Help offers women skills training so they can...
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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.  Tod...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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