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So you have clean water. What now?

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August 23, 2017
Give a community a clean water chlorinator, they’ll drink for a month. Teach a community to organize and they’ll drink clean water for a lif...
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Educating Nicaragua’s Farm Families

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August 15, 2017
When we welcome guests to our training sessions, we always share the idea that insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different resu...
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Abdullai and Fatia’s Journey to a Better Life

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August 7, 2017
Abdullai and his wife, Fatia, are a young couple who have faced struggles well beyond their years. The couple started their family in their ...
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Nobody Likes Diarrhea (Seriously)

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August 1, 2017
After a sweltering day spent working on a farm, Julio heads home longing for a cool drink of water. The water that runs from his kitchen tap...
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No more micro-loans for Gema and Cristina

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July 5, 2017
Just a Little Sparkle for a Brighter Future Sisters Gema, 24, and Cristina, 27, are two of the twenty-five women who live in Ochomogo, Rivas...
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Felicia Builds a Better Foundation for Her Family

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June 27, 2017
Felicia was born and raised in a place called Kwaso, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. She is a sixty-five-year-old widow and a mother of seve...
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Chief Marvels at Transformation of Teen Girls Club

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June 19, 2017
Since officially launching the Teen Girls Club in September 2016, the 150 teen girls we serve have been receiving reproductive health guidan...
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Safe drinking water at the San Carlos Hospital at last!

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June 16, 2017
Imagine you are a doctor working in San Carlos, Nicaragua.  A patient comes in with a case that probably requires surgery.  If you had a per...
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Quinta Lidia Primary School Opens New Library!

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June 10, 2017
By Susan Cornforth, SHI USA Staff Many schools in rural Nicaragua lack a library, making it that much more difficult for students to receive...
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A New Chapter for Ama Badu

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June 9, 2017
We are often asked how we decide which communities to serve. In Ghana, we intentionally focus on rural communities within a 25-mile radius o...
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