entrepreneurship

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 share knowledge, empower one another

Women share knowledge, empower one another

Self-Help International’s micro-credit program is consistently expanding in Nicaragua’s Department, Rio San Juan. As of July 2015, Self-Help has distributed...

Through training Adelaida learns new skills

Through training Adelaida learns new skills

Adelaida sells freshly cooked food from her home along with other work on the side for extra income. Self-Help Staff interviewed her...

Adding value to avoid post-harvest losses

Adding value to avoid post-harvest losses

After hearing about the successes experienced at the Fred Strohbehn Training Center, the farmers that Self-Help works with in Ochomogo...

Mushroom production to the rescue!

Mushroom production to the rescue!

Veronica and Gideon are married for more than two decades and have three teenaged children; 2 boys and a girl...

Self-Help loans transform Sarah’s life

Self-Help loans transform Sarah’s life

Sarah  is a 38-year-old woman who lives in Nkawie Panin, a farming community in rural Ghana. She is married and...

Angelica’s business provides for her family

Angelica’s business provides for her family

Angélica is 23-years-old and lives in Quinta Lidia. She and her husband are the proud parents of a 3-year-old little girl....

Abass continues to make progress

Abass continues to make progress

Abass Kwarteng graduated from high school in 2007, but due to financial constraints he was unable to further his education....

Abena alleviates hunger through her small business

Abena alleviates hunger through her small business

In Ghana, West Africa, lands are small in size and owned by agricultural indigenes. Commercial farming is nearly impossible within...

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