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Strong Mothers, Healthy Babies: The Role of Lactation Coaches

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November 6, 2025
By Ernestina Esinam Glikpo, Communications Manager In Beposo, a small community in Ghana’s Ashanti Region, a group of women recently gathere...
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Babies Are Thriving and Mothers Are Celebrated

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October 27, 2025
By Ernestina Esinam Glikpo, Communications Manager In the heart of rural Ghana, in the communities of Kukubuso, Beposo, and Fankamawe, somet...
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Yes She Can: The Story of Priscilla

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July 21, 2025
by Ernestina Glikpo, SHI Ghana Communications Manager A teen girl named Priscilla is redefining what it means to be unstoppable in the heart...
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47 Girls Graduate from SHI’s Teen Girls Club

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September 12, 2024
Forty-seven young girls from five rural communities in Ghana’s Ashanti Region just reached a significant milestone: they graduated from Self...
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Quality Protein Maize: Implementing lessons learned from World Food Prize Laureates

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October 27, 2023
By Bernice Agyekwena, SHI Ghana Communications Manager Maize remains an important staple in the diet of Ghanaians and is used in many dishes...
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Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes: Implementing lessons learned from World Food Prize Laureates

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October 27, 2023
By Bernice Agyekwena, SHI Ghana Communications Manager In the year 2016, Maria Andrade, Robert Mwanga, and Jan Low jointly won the World Foo...
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Nutrition in the First 1000 Days: Implementing lessons learned from World Food Prize Laureates

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October 25, 2023
By Bernice Agyekwena, SHI Ghana Communications Manager For their role in championing medical and economic policies that promotes maternal an...
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Fighting Malnutrition With Education

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October 25, 2022
Dr. Norman Borlaug once said, “You can’t build a peaceful world on empty stomach and human misery.” These inspiring words still ring true in...
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Young People Have the Ability to Shape the Future of Agriculture in Ghana

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October 12, 2021
By Justice Amoka Sam – Community Crop and Livestock Specialist In Self-Help International’s partner communities in Ghana, it is common...
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Saudatu Gets a Second Chance at Doing Business

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September 14, 2021
By Lydia Adomako – Micro-Credit Program Officer 45-year-old Saudatu is a mother of six from Beposo, a small community in the Ashanti R...
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Good Nutrition Helped Mariam Learn to Walk

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July 11, 2021
By Latifa Moomen and Patience Obour, Promoting Good Nutrition Program Officers Self-Help International facilitates a maternal-child nutritio...
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The Role of Community Vaccination in Reducing Mortality Rates in Rural Poultry in Ghana

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May 20, 2021
By Justice Amoka Sam – Community Crop and Livestock Specialist Rural poultry production is recognized as an important agricultural act...
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