Agriculture

Demonstration Plots Improve Child Nutrition

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June 1, 2017

Four months ago, I packed my bags and flew to Ghana, West Africa to work with farmers to help them better feed their families. The farmers I...

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Young Nicaraguan Poultry Producers Prove the Value of Quality Protein Maize

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May 17, 2017

Over the past few months, we’ve been working with sixteen area farm families and their children to demonstrate the nutritional value o...

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Nkontomire named the District’s Best School in Agriculture at National Farmers Day

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February 6, 2017

At Self-Help, we take an integrated approach to rural development. If we wish to improve nutrition for our people, we must teach them how to...

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Holiday Newsletter

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December 15, 2016

Read all the latest news including: the launch of the new Teen Girls Club in Ghana meet Jering, a teenaged entreprenuer in Nicaragua how one...

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Leadership in Action at the Fred Strohbehn Training Center

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November 24, 2016

Since its construction four years ago, the Fred Strohbehn Training Center has hosted a great number of leaders from several communities in s...

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Record Successes with Conservation Agriculture

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November 18, 2016

Minimizing Production Cost While Growing and Consuming More Protein In Ghana, the majority of farmers are subsistent— cultivating less than ...

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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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‘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...

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Summer 2016 Newsletter

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June 20, 2016

Razak, a farmer from Beposo village in Ghana, shares his testimonial about how the school feeding program has improved his daughter Faustina...

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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...

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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...

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2015 Annual Report

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April 1, 2016

Thousands of people are better nourished today thanks to your support! Read about some the life-changing works you made possible through you...

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Demonstration Plots Improve Child Nutrition

Young Nicaraguan Poultry Producers Prove the Value of Quality Protein Maize