My Personal Growth Thanks to Friendly Hands
Josefina is 48 years old with a very low level of schooling, she barely passed the first grade of primary...
Self-Help International is an Iowa-based international development organization dedicated to alleviating hunger in rural communities in Ghana, West Africa and Nicaragua, Central America by helping people help themselves.
Self-Help prioritizes local staff and community leadership, and programs address the hard gaps in development by ensuring that program partners have access to knowledge as well as the resources to put their knowledge into action.
Agricultural productivity increases when women farmers have the same access to productive resources as men, which could reduce hunger by 100 – 150 million.
Self-Help Ghana boasts a 98% repayment rate on micro-loans issued to impoverished women entrepreneurs. Repaid loans are re-issued to empower the next woman in need.
Women reinvest 90% of income into the family, so their children eat more and better food and get the education they need to break free from the cycle of hunger and poverty.
Through improved practices and access to new technology, the farmers we serve are doubling or even tripling their yields, increasing food security now and for the future.
Early childhood enrollment increases when we partner with communities to help them start school feeding programs, and students are able to start each school day hunger-free and ready to learn.
We’ve installed more than 120 innovative water chlorination systems that are providing 85,000 people with clean water every day so they can lead healthier, more productive lives.
Josefina is 48 years old with a very low level of schooling, she barely passed the first grade of primary...
Enrollment levels at the Nkontomire Municipal Assembly Basic School in the Ashanti Region of Ghana has increased tremendously since Self...
A group of palm oil processors at Juaben are poised to enhance their trade by expanding the land on which...
In the past, Sulemana, a 46-year-old farmer and father of six needed to eke out money from his limited resources...
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