Stories

Creating enterprises, ensuring sustainability

At Self-Help, we’re all about helping people help themselves. So after we heard from the girls that they definitely liked...

Timeabu Teens: When we got our periods, we used to go hungry

Timeabu Teens: When we got our periods, we used to go hungry

“Having the Days for Girls kits saves us money,” Mariatu said. “Yes,” Windolina chimed in, “I used to have to...

Fatima’s Success

Fatima’s Success

On January 19th, 2016, for the first time, six-year-old Fatima experienced her first day of school in a small village...

Hatching New Ideas: The Young Entrepreneur from La Rampla

Hatching New Ideas: The Young Entrepreneur from La Rampla

This year, we started our training sessions early at the Fred Strohbehn Training Center in Nicaragua to get a head start...

Skills Training Inspires New Business Ventures

Skills Training Inspires New Business Ventures

In addition to offering general business training and micro-loans, from time to time Self-Help offers women skills training so they can...

Finally! Safe drinking water for school children in Marlon Zelaya!

Finally! Safe drinking water for school children in Marlon Zelaya!

Marlon Zelaya is a rural community of about 600 people living outside of El Castillo in the southern state of Rio...

Nkontomire named the District’s Best School in Agriculture at National Farmers Day

Nkontomire named the District’s Best School in Agriculture at National Farmers Day

At Self-Help, we take an integrated approach to rural development. If we wish to improve nutrition for our people, we...

Anabel with her thank you note to donors

Meet Anabel: Ochomogo’s Newest Restaurant Owner

“Thanks to Self-Help International and its program for helping us to work. We feel very thankful for this great opportunity...

The Resources & Tools to Transform Meilly’s Life

An update from Nicaragua Micro-Credit Officer, Yolanda Fletes: I am proud to share that we welcomed 8 more women entreprenuers...

Veronica’s First Home of Her Own

Veronica’s First Home of Her Own

Veronica is a fifty-seven-year-old mother of five living in Kwaso village in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Even though Veronica...

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