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From Soil to Plates: Empowering Women to Grow Their Own Food

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November 17, 2025
By Ernestina Esinam Glikpo, Communications Manager In many parts of Ghana, food insecurity isn’t just a challenge—it’s a daily reality. But ...
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From Petty Trader to Homeowner: Comfort’s Story

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February 5, 2025
By Ernestina Esinam Glikpo | Communications Manager When Comfort lost her husband, life became a daily struggle for her and her five childre...
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Expanding Training & Micro-Loans to New Communities Thanks to YOU!

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December 12, 2017
Happy Holidays!  Thank you to all who are reading this: your support this past year has made a tremendous difference to hundreds of families...
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Felicia Builds a Better Foundation for Her Family

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June 27, 2017
Felicia was born and raised in a place called Kwaso, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. She is a sixty-five-year-old widow and a mother of seve...
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Skills Training Inspires New Business Ventures

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February 15, 2017
In addition to offering general business training and micro-loans, from time to time Self-Help offers women skills training so they can...
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Veronica’s First Home of Her Own

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December 21, 2016
Veronica is a fifty-seven-year-old mother of five living in Kwaso village in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Even though Veronica is from a poo...
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Sandra Takes Control

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April 27, 2016
“NO MATTER THE SITUATION, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE IT” Sandra is a forty-year-old woman from Kwaso, a rural community in the...
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Women’s Leadership Summit

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January 4, 2016
What a wonderful few months of milestones it has been for women in Ghana!  Micro-credit officers Victoria and Elizabeth have been working ha...
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Strength in unity: Kwaso group a shining example

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December 3, 2014
The average Ghanaian is individualistic in nature; wants to do everything all by himself or herself and has little trust in partnership. Acc...
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