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Akosua demonstrates creativity in her business

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October 28, 2016

Meet Akosua, a thirty-eight year old woman from Timeabu, a village of about 500 people in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Akosua is a mother of...

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Life from Maribel’s Point of View

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October 28, 2016

Why I care and why you should too. Imagine standing in an overcrowded bus aisle without any air conditioning on a humid 95-degree day. The b...

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The Skit

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October 4, 2016

At the end of September, the Teen Girls Club was officially inaugurated in the village of Bedaabour, Ghana. It was a tremendous celebration...

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Entire Village Gathers to Inaugurate Teen Girls Clubs

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September 30, 2016

September 23, 2016 was a truly special day. After months of organizing girls, listening to their needs and challenges, and designing a progr...

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Is it safe to eat eggs when you have your period?

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September 27, 2016

That was one of the genuine questions asked during the women’s health training session we held in Timeabu last week: “Is it safe...

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Clean Water – Not Just a Drop in the Bucket

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September 21, 2016

Thanks to your support, we were able to install the 88th water chlorination system in southern Nicaragua, bringing clean, safe drinking wate...

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Empowered Women Empower Women

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September 16, 2016

About 32 miles by motorcycle from Self-Help’s Nicaragua office, lies a small and vibrant community called Las Azucenas. In a small and quiet...

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Building a More Peaceful World

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September 8, 2016

Ghana is blessed with many natural resource but remains underdeveloped, partly because the citizens are overly dependent on the central gove...

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Lessons Through Experiences of a Self-Help Intern Abroad

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August 29, 2016

I had no idea what I would be getting into when I took my first steps out of the airplane that humid night in May. I couldn’t picture it, li...

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Got your period? No more school for you.

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August 27, 2016

In September 2015, Self-Help International hosted our first ever Leadership Summit to celebrate the strongest leaders in our women’s m...

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