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She Had the Will. You Gave Her the Way

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October 13, 2025
By Ernestina Esinam Glikpo, Communications Manager Franklina, at just 23 years old, is demonstrating that young women in rural Ghana can ove...
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Gladys with palm fruits

Palm Oil, Big Dreams, and the Power to Lift a Community

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September 22, 2025
By Ernestina Esinam Glikpo, Communications Manager In the Juaben Municipality in Ghana’s Ashanti Region, the sound of a palm fruit dig...
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Education is the Key to a Different Life

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July 31, 2025
By Edelia Aracelly Cruz Torrez, Women’s Empowerment Program Officer, Nicaragua Juana is 54 years old, married, and the mother of three child...
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“The best experience I have had is with Self-Help”

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February 5, 2025
By Edelia Aracelly Cruz Torrez | Empowering Women Project Officer By teaching Martha a new skill, Self-Help International’s Women’s Em...
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Delayed Rains Leave Maize Fields Empty

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October 21, 2024
In the rural communities of Nyame Bekyere, Timeabu, and Ul-Gozu in Ghana’s Ashanti Region, and Upper West Region, farmers like Joe, Ag...
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Mary’s Journey: From Poverty to Prosperity with Your Help

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October 16, 2024
By Ernestina Glikpo | Communications Manager In October 2019, Mary, a mother of three from the small village of Abompe in Ghana’s Ashanti Re...
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Rosa is Empowered

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August 26, 2024
By Edelia Aracelly Cruz Torrez | Empowering Women Project Officer With the help of loans from Self-Help Nicaragua’s Women’s Empowerment Prog...
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SHI MicroCredit supports Monica’s Bean Cake Business

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August 8, 2024
By Ernestina Esinam Glikpo | Communications Manager If ever Monica needed a change to support her family, it was in the season of no rain in...
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Empowering Rural Communities through Sustainable Agriculture

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July 9, 2024
By Ernestina Glikpo, Communications Manager In the farming community of Kukuboso, Ghana, live Inusa Issah, a 50-year-old farmer, and his wif...
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Self-Help Empowers Eveling to Take Her Business Online

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July 8, 2024
By Edelia Aracelly Cruz Torrez | Empowering Women Project officer Eveling is 29 years old, married with one daughter. She has a modest level...
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Self-Help Assists Women to Help Their Children

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May 8, 2024
By Lucia Vega Galeano, Program Operations Manager, Self-Help Nicaragua When Aracelly Cruz, Self-Help International Nicaragua’s Women’s’ Empo...
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Osneylin and Aura are Inspiring Other Women in Their Community

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November 21, 2021
By Yolanda Fletes – Micro-Credit Program Officer 32-year-old Osneylin is originally from San Carlos, Rio San Juan. Today, she lives 45...
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