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One Egg a Day Is Changing My Child’s Life

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April 16, 2025
In the heart of Fankamawie, a rural farming community in Ghana’s Ashanti Region, something small is making a big difference—one egg at a tim...
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Wishing Dr. Mary Jane Oakland a Happy Birthday!

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February 28, 2024
A Message from the Rev. Dr. Mary Jane Oakland:  It’s now been six years since Benjamin Kusi, SHI Ghana Country Director, asked me a qu...
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Virtual Lunch & Learn Set for Dec. 14

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December 9, 2021
Nutrition education, agricultural development and economic empowerment converge in an innovative program set for Tuesday, Dec. 14, from 12:3...
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It’s Not Easy, but it’s Worth It: Growing Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato

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April 8, 2019
By Patience Obour, Nutrition Program Officer Elizabeth, a mother of two from the village of Beposo in southern Ghana, joined Self-Help’...
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Progress Report: Growing Healthy Food, Growing Healthy Children

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November 12, 2018
By Mary Jane Oakland, PhD Since I last wrote to you just after returning from Ghana in February, Self-Help’s team in Ghana wasted no time in...
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Infant Malnutrition and What Our New Program is Doing About It: Growing Healthy Food, Growing Healthy Children

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October 16, 2018
by Katie Jackson, Communications Intern, and Megan Sehr, Development Director In Roger Thurow’s recently published book, The First 1,000 Day...
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