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Karla Vanessa, an Empowered Woman Who Administers a Water System In Rural Nicaragua

Karla Vanessa, an Empowered Woman Who Administers a Water System In Rural Nicaragua

By: Orlando Jose Montiel Salass | Clean Water Program Officer Karla lives in the community of Never Oporta in southern...

Angelina’s Journey to Thriving Harvests

Angelina’s Journey to Thriving Harvests

By Ernestina Esinam Glikpo | Communications Manager Angelina Dorsah used to face daily struggles as a peanut farmer in the Ullo...

Planting Seeds of Hope

Planting Seeds of Hope

In the rural communities in Ghana’s Ashanti Region, the sound of laughter and the sight of young hands busy with...

Teen Girls Shine at SHI’s Reading Competition

Teen Girls Shine at SHI’s Reading Competition

Clad in matching club T-shirts, young girls with excitement from five communities in Atwima Mponua, Atwima Nwabiagya, and Ejisu Municipalities...

DISTANCE IS NO OBJECT FOR SELF-HELP INTERNATIONAL

DISTANCE IS NO OBJECT FOR SELF-HELP INTERNATIONAL

By Orlando Jose Montiel Salas | Clean Water Program Officer Although Orlando Montiel, Self-Help Nicaragua’s clean water program officer, had to...

Ensuring My Nutrition by Diversifying My Crops

Ensuring My Nutrition by Diversifying My Crops

  Beginning in 2023 Self-Help International (SHI) extended its agriculture program to the northern part of Nicaragua.  Working in this...