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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...
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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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