23 Communities Gather to Discuss Clean Water

23 Communities Gather to Discuss Clean Water

We love focusing on success stories, but installing clean water in rural communities is not all we do: we educate...

Celebrating Lydia’s progress

Celebrating Lydia’s progress

Two years ago, we shared Lydia’s story with you.  Providing for her family was a daily struggle. But she used a micro-loan...

Back to School: Farmers learn to produce mushroom spawn!

Back to School: Farmers learn to produce mushroom spawn!

By Benjamin Kusi – Country Director Since opening its doors in 2014, the Frances Mueller and Virginia Lageschulte Training Centre...

The Best Water in All of El Castillo

The Best Water in All of El Castillo

Salvador Fletes and his companion Gonzalo sit at a worn wooden table after a long day of work, relaxing in...

Osei’s Story: Saving the Environment While Earning a Living

Osei’s Story: Saving the Environment While Earning a Living

For fifteen years, Osei worked as a timber merchant. He would go to the forest to cut down trees, send...

10 Farmers to Plant QPM Seed Corn this Season

As we shared in the last update in March, our Nicaragua Quality Protein Maize (QPM) team has been working hard...

Secret Family Recipe the Key to Success

Secret Family Recipe the Key to Success

By Susan Cornforth – Administrative Assistant Last week, Susan Cornforth a staff member from Self-Help’s Iowa office, led the Wartburg...

Sandra Takes Control

Sandra Takes Control

“NO MATTER THE SITUATION, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE IT” Sandra is a forty-year-old woman from Kwaso, a rural...

100 Healthier Families in Villa Álvarez

100 Healthier Families in Villa Álvarez

  Several months ago, members of the of the Villa Álvarez Clean Water Committee came together with other Clean Water...

Healthy Competition Improves Quality of Education, Feeding Program in Bedabour

Healthy Competition Improves Quality of Education, Feeding Program in Bedabour

By Deborah Asamoah and Nancy Ansah – Project Leaders Bedaabour is a rural village of about 1,000 people within the...

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