Agriculture

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...

10 Farmers to Plant QPM Seed Corn this Season

As we shared in the last update in March, our Nicaragua Quality Protein Maize (QPM) team has been working hard...

2015 Annual Report

Thousands of people are better nourished today thanks to your support! Read about some the life-changing works you made possible...

Finally! Practical Training for Ag Science Class

Finally! Practical Training for Ag Science Class

Students at St. Joseph Senior High School now have the practical skills they need to be able to enter the...

Getting seed back into the hands of farmers

Getting seed back into the hands of farmers

By Lucia Vega & Jorge Campos – Program Director & Country Director A little over a year ago, Self-Help imported...

Spring 2016 Newsletter

Farmers in Ghana are doubling their yields! Villages in Nicaragua are reporting no new cases of Dengue Fever!  Read more...

The Resources to Make Ayishetu’s Dream Come True

The Resources to Make Ayishetu’s Dream Come True

Ayishetu is a migrant from the north and mother of seven. She has never had any formal education since it...

Teach me to farm & I’ll eat for a lifetime

Teach me to farm & I’ll eat for a lifetime

Self-Help International’s approach to alleviating hunger in Ghana is to “teach people how to fish” – or in this case...

Fall 2015 Newsletter

This issue features stories about how clean water transformed the lives of Miguel and Griselda’s family in La Culebra, Nicaragua,...

Solomon Puts Agriculture Waste to Productive Use

Solomon Puts Agriculture Waste to Productive Use

In Atwima Nwabiagya, many farmers engage in rice farming for both personal consumption and as a cash crop. After harvesting...

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