Our approach emphasizes sustainable solutions, focusing on education, training, and leadership development to enable families and communities to meet their needs with dignity. Operating under the principle of providing a “hand up” rather than a “handout,” Self-Help International is not a relief organization but a catalyst for long-term development and sustainability.

Self-Help International devotes its efforts to alleviating world hunger and poverty, by providing opportunities to rural citizens that ultimately leads to self-reliance. Since its inception, Self-Help has served as a vessel; training, education, and opportunities are provided to rural citizens and whole communities in developing countries so that they can have better lives.

Self-Help International locally-hired team of skilled professionals serve rural communities in Ghana in West Africa and Nicaragua in Central America, to improve the population’s quality of life with dignity.