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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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Secret Family Recipe the Key to Success

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May 23, 2016
By Susan Cornforth – Administrative Assistant Last week, Susan Cornforth a staff member from Self-Help’s Iowa office, led the Wa...
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Sandra Takes Control

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April 27, 2016
“NO MATTER THE SITUATION, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE IT” Sandra is a forty-year-old woman from Kwaso, a rural community in the...
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100 Healthier Families in Villa Álvarez

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April 18, 2016
Several months ago, members of the of the Villa Álvarez Clean Water Committee came together with other Clean Water Committees in El Almendro...
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Healthy Competition Improves Quality of Education, Feeding Program in Bedabour

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April 15, 2016
By Deborah Asamoah and Nancy Ansah – Project Leaders Bedaabour is a rural village of about 1,000 people within the Atwima Mponua Distr...
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Would you give your child dirty water to drink?

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March 22, 2016
…Juan wouldn’t either. Here’s his story: In Februrary 2014, Self-Help’s Clean Water Program Officer made the trek to...
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“I feel at ease knowing my daughter is well fed”

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March 16, 2016
Last July, we reported to you that in rural Ghana, quite a number of children spend time idle at home or with their parents on their farms r...
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Finally! Practical Training for Ag Science Class

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March 16, 2016
Students at St. Joseph Senior High School now have the practical skills they need to be able to enter the rural workforce. A few months ago,...
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Getting seed back into the hands of farmers

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March 8, 2016
By Lucia Vega & Jorge Campos – Program Director & Country Director A little over a year ago, Self-Help imported new Quality Pr...
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Now I am a more powerful woman!

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March 7, 2016
Doña Migdalia is a 51-year-old married mother of three from the community of Aldea del Mañana. Like many women in rural Nicaragua, she wante...
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