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‘Capacitación’ at SHI Nicaragua’s Training Center

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August 23, 2016
Although it was a rainy day at Self Help’s office in Quinta Lidia, it did not stop local community members from attending a capacitación (tr...

Meet Adelina

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August 17, 2016
By Jacqueline Steinkamp – Communications Intern, Self-Help Nicaragua Early in the morning, the sun beams its light into small wooden c...

23 Communities Gather to Discuss Clean Water

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August 11, 2016
We love focusing on success stories, but installing clean water in rural communities is not all we do: we educate rural communities about ho...

Celebrating Lydia’s progress

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July 20, 2016
Two years ago, we shared Lydia’s story with you.  Providing for her family was a daily struggle. But she used a micro-loan in 2013 to ...

Back to School: Farmers learn to produce mushroom spawn!

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June 22, 2016
By Benjamin Kusi – Country Director Since opening its doors in 2014, the Frances Mueller and Virginia Lageschulte Training Centre has ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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