Are you ready to help us fund 40 Women's Micro-credit Loans in Ghana, build a Daycare in San Carlos, Nicaragua or provide vitamins for every child that comes to us for food? If so, you'll love to read more on these 1-page flyers about the problem, what we are doing and how you can help. And, you can copy them off and hand them to all your friends.
Mary Schmidt’s cookbook Food for Thought is a
collection of recipes, compiled especially for Self-Help.
She has taken her personal recipes and those published
in the Waverly Independent and Democrat from 1998 to
2006 and put them in a spiral-bound book. It’s
all there… breads, appetizers, soups, casseroles,
side dishes, entrees, desserts. The 166-page book sells
for $10 plus $3 shipping (U.S.).
NEW LOWER PRICE! Your purchase of this book will
help feed a hungry child. That’s food for thought.
Knitting with Gigi
You may know that Self-Help has been selected as the
first non-profit organization supported by Gigi’s
Kindness Corps.tm But, did you know that Self-Help receives
100% of the profits of each book purchased through us?
You can thank local author, Karen Thalacker.
Knitting with Gigi is a children’s book that
teaches knitting (to kids of any age) and cultivates
a spirit of service. Gigi is asking knitters to knit
dishcloths for Nicaraguan
and Ghanaian children. Includes
step-by-step instructions and eight patterns. Exquisitely
illustrated by Mindy
Dwyer. Hard cover and signed by the author, 32-page
book sells for $17 plus $3 shipping (U.S.).
2007 National Parenting Publications Award and 2008
Independent Book Publishers Award Winner!
GigiKnits... and Purls
‘Gigi Knits… and Purls’ is Karen
Thalacker’s second book in the Gigi series. And,
like her first book, Karen is donating the proceeds
directly to Self-Help.
You remember Gigi – the girl who’s cool
and hip and loves to knit! Her first book, Knitting
with Gigi, made friends everywhere, and now she invites
you to a purl party! Even if you missed her first book
and have never knit before, just grab a ball of yarn
and some knitting needles and come join the fun. You’ll
be knitting and purling in no time.
This book has everything you need to know to make eight
great projects, and Gigi has loads of ideas for sharing
your knitting with friends and charities. Gifts are
her specialties. So get ready to make gifts that rock
– like a basket-weave scarf, an adorable baby
hat, a button purse, and even a dog coat – and
get ready to make friends!
Hard cover and signed by the author, this book sells
for $17 plus $3 shipping (U.S.).
An Interview with Dr. Norman Borlaug... now on DVD
In October 2007, SHI sat down with Honorary Board Member,
Dr. Borlaug, for a rare personal glimpse at his background,
influences, perspective and wisdom. The 19-minute interview
covers many facets of Dr. Borlaug's extraordinary career,
including growing up on a Midwestern farm. You can own
this once-in-a-lifetime interview and support Self-Help
at the same time.
The professionally-edited DVD is now available for
a $25 donation. This keepsake makes a lasting and meaningful
gift.
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Gifts to Help Spread the Message
Have the Holidays or special occasion brought out the consumer in you as you rush to find the perfect gift. Self-Help would like to suggest an alternative – change a life. Selecting any one of the ideas below will not only alter the life’s course of the poor in Nicaragua and Ghana… it may just have a lasting effect on those you love. Giving a gift on behalf of a child, grandchild or even that “impossible to buy for” person on your list says that you care about more than just your own circle of family and friends; you place importance on caring for those often-neglected poor. And that is a gift worth passing on.
Note: All gifts will be acknowledged with a letter of appreciation. Your gift will be combined with others and sent directly to the Self-Help offices in Ghana and Nicaragua to be used for the people and projects indicated. Thank you, on their behalf.
Feed a child for a year:
Self-Help can provide a nutritious meal for about 21 cents. This porridge is made from QPM (a higher-digestible protein corn), a pinch of barley malt and some sugar. Kids 6-months to 6- years flock to our feeding centers from the surrounding hills and village for this once-a-day, weekday meal… and for some it may be the only food they get that day. Deal a blow to malnutrition and all the diseases that prey on hungry and starving children.
Buy 50 chicks to start a poultry business: $75
We fund all sorts of animal husbandry enterprises in Nicaragua and Ghana, but chickens continue to be a favorite. They are protein machines! Not only do they produce eggs to be eaten or sold, but eventually they end up on the family table. In protein-deficient areas of the world, any time we can improve their diets is the best opportunity to thwart sickness and improve health.
Fund a woman’s micro-credit loan: $100
Here’s your chance to fund a small-business half a world away! Support a baker, potter, trader or farmer. Self-Help does all the work for you! Women join a group and have their enterprise idea approved by the other members. Self-Help provides the funding and monitors the progress. The loan payments go to fund even more businesses. So, your initial gift keeps giving and giving!
Buy a palm-oil press: $300
In Ghana, one of the major small businesses is producing palm oil. Women gather palm nuts and boil, pound and press these kernels until they yield a product that is as useful as soybean oil in the United States. It lubricates, feeds and fuels – and it provides a profit for those who have the capacity to stand the long, grueling and physical work it takes to make. A press reduces the strain out of it.
Provide the cups to feed 20 infants every day: $10
The barley malt (called Power Flour) not only adds a bit of nutrition to Self-Help’s porridge, it also liquefies it. That makes it especially useful for weaning children (6 months+) who come to the feeding centers. Self-Help is always in need of new sippy cups that feed pre-school kids and you can give 20 for only $10.
Increase the corn harvest by 37% with a silo: $175
Corn farmers in Ghana and Nicaragua need a place to keep their shelled corn harvest. Piling it in the corner means that mold, insects and vermin “eat into” what took so much work to produce in the first place. Our studies show that a metal 51-bushel “silo” means they will have 37% more corn than their current practices… and it is in better condition for food and feed.
Give a corn farmer their own QPM starter pack: $10
Quality Protein Maize (QPM) is an open-pollinated (not a hybrid) corn that can produce a yield and taste just like other field corn varieties – but with twice the usable protein levels of other corn. This gift of QPM corn seed is enough to plant ½ an acre. That harvest can produce up to 25 bushels of corn that can be used to feed their family, their livestock or seed for next year. For a struggling farmer, this small gift can change their life.
Protect 5 Ghanaian children from malaria while they sleep: $50
Bed nets can protect people (especially children) from the devastating effects of malaria. Self-Help works with the rural poor and they are often underserved or neglected by other major international organizations. When we provide bed nets, we know that we are giving the chance for “our” families to stay healthy and productive. And if we can keep kids healthy and in school, we improve the chances the poverty cycle can be broken.
Purchase a hand corn sheller: $125
Corn farming (80% of farmers in Ghana are women) in most of the world is done by hand. Plowing, planting, cultivating and harvesting are all manual processes. You can help by giving a gift that not only saves backs and hands from the effort required to separate bushels of corn kernels from their cobs, but it also speeds the time involved. This is helpful as farmers shorten the time to market for their product.
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