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Record Successes with Conservation Agriculture

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November 18, 2016

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

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“My sister is healthier because of you”

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November 4, 2016

Yesterday, the school feeding program staff, Nancy and Jesse, visited the community of Bedabour for monitoring and met with Jasmine, a...

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Akosua demonstrates creativity in her business

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October 28, 2016

Meet Akosua, a thirty-eight year old woman from Timeabu, a village of about 500 people in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Akosua is a mother of...

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Life from Maribel’s Point of View

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October 28, 2016

By Jacqueline Steinkamp, SHI Communications & Development Officer Why I care and why you should too. Imagine standing in an overcrowded ...

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The Skit

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October 4, 2016

At the end of September, the Teen Girls Club was officially inaugurated in the village of Bedaabour, Ghana. It was a tremendous celebr...

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Entire Village Gathers to Inaugurate Teen Girls Clubs

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September 30, 2016

September 23, 2016 was a truly special day. After months of organizing girls, listening to their needs and challenges, and designing a progr...

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Is it safe to eat eggs when you have your period?

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September 27, 2016

That was one of the genuine questions asked during the women’s health training session we held in Timeabu last week: “Is it safe...

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Clean Water – Not Just a Drop in the Bucket

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September 21, 2016

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

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Empowered Women Empower Women

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September 16, 2016

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

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Building a More Peaceful World

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September 8, 2016

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

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