Posts by Jackie Steinkamp

Record Successes with Conservation Agriculture

Record Successes with Conservation Agriculture

Minimizing Production Cost While Growing and Consuming More Protein In Ghana, the majority of farmers are subsistent— cultivating less than...

Clean Water – Not Just a Drop in the Bucket

Clean Water – Not Just a Drop in the Bucket

Thanks to your support, we were able to install the 88th water chlorination system in southern Nicaragua, bringing clean, safe...

Empowered Women Empower Women

Empowered Women Empower Women

About 32 miles by motorcycle from Self-Help’s Nicaragua office, lies a small and vibrant community called Las Azucenas. In a...

Building a More Peaceful World

Building a More Peaceful World

Ghana is blessed with many natural resource but remains underdeveloped, partly because the citizens are overly dependent on the central...

Meet Adelina

Meet Adelina

By Jacqueline Steinkamp – Communications Intern, Self-Help Nicaragua Early in the morning, the sun beams its light into small wooden...

Osei’s Story: Saving the Environment While Earning a Living

Osei’s Story: Saving the Environment While Earning a Living

For fifteen years, Osei worked as a timber merchant. He would go to the forest to cut down trees, send...

Sandra Takes Control

Sandra Takes Control

“NO MATTER THE SITUATION, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE IT” Sandra is a forty-year-old woman from Kwaso, a rural...

Women’s Leadership Summit

Women’s Leadership Summit

What a wonderful few months of milestones it has been for women in Ghana!  Micro-credit officers Victoria and Elizabeth have...

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