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Diana’s Determination

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June 19, 2019
By Patience Obour – Nutrition Program Officer All parents dream to see their children succeed academically or in other endeavors, but ...
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Agricultural Entrepreneurship Team Creates Demand for Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato in Ashanti Region

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February 25, 2019
By Bernard Frimpong Bannor – Agriculture & Entrepreneurship Program Officer In Self-Help International’s quest to alleviate hunger...
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Akosua Grows More Confident About Her Children’s Futures Thanks to Better Nutrition

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January 18, 2019
By Jesse Jackson Sarkodie – Nutrition Program Officer It is often sad to see malnourished women and their children in our rural commun...
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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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Community School Leaders Commend School Feeding Program

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October 24, 2018
Amidu lives in the rural village of Ama Badu in Ghana and serves as the PTA chairman of the local primary school.  He lives with his family,...
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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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No More Stunting in Beposo: Self-Help’s “Growing Healthy Food, Growing Healthy Children” Program

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October 16, 2018
By Jerry Perkins and Nora Tobin This article originally appeared in the Des Moines Register on October 14, 2018. Reprinted with permission. ...
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I Am Amos

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October 15, 2018
I am Amos and I am 8 months old, and you see me in this picture riding on my mother’s back, as she weeds and cultivates the orange fleshed s...
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Growing Healthy Food, Growing Healthy Children

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March 14, 2018
1 in 4 Children Self-Help International has been instrumental in starting feeding programs in primary schools in rural villages in the Ashan...
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Seylin Blooms

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November 10, 2012
Six-month-old Seylin was wilting. Much like a flower that droops without sunshine and water. After being put up for adoption, Seylin was lis...
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Nourishing curious and energetic children

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October 10, 2011
Nataly’s mother brought her to the Cico Bodegon (daycare and feeding center) in Las Azucenas, Nicaragua in May of 2010. She was worried abou...
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A new beginning for Celine

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July 11, 2011
During my recent visit to Nicaragua I visited the children’s feeding centers to see firsthand nutritional improvements among the children. S...
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