Ghana

QPM nutrition program chalks another success

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October 23, 2012
Early summer 2012, while the Self-Help staff was visiting the women at Ohene Nkwanta for its micro-credit program, they noticed a very malno...

More Women in Ghana Acquire Cell Phones

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September 5, 2012
Beposo is a farming community in rural Ghana. It has no electricity but thankfully has a borehole for water. In 2011, nine women from this c...

Training Center Project Underway

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August 8, 2012
August 2012 Self-Help International is setting its sights high in Ghana in an effort to reduce the migration of young farmers into its overp...

Upwards and Outwards: Abraham’s Evident Progress

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July 4, 2012
Having never been to Ghana before, I was absorbing every conversation, every meeting, and every experience at the various sites we visited. ...

Stakes and Stakeholders Established for New Training Center in Ghana

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May 10, 2012
2012 Ground has been broken on the acre of land at Nkwakrom in the district of Atwima Nwabiagya for the young adult farmer training center. ...

Planning and Research Underway for New Training Center in Ghana

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February 13, 2012
Excitement is building as Self-Help International staff in both, Iowa and Ghana, West Africa hammer out details for the new training center....

Young Mother Grateful for a Micro-credit Legacy

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September 8, 2011
Afia, a 22 year-old single mother, did not know how she was going to support herself and her new “bouncy” baby girl. She was forced to leave...

Erica gives hope to daughter, Jessica

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June 8, 2011
Akua Erica, 37 and a mother of three, became a beneficiary of Self-Help’s Ghana Micro Credit program in 2009. She was a hairdresser an...

Ghanaian Teens Give Back

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April 13, 2011
The villages of Amanchia and Worapong, Ghana are sites where nearly 250 children ages 6 months to 6 years gather to attend preschools. As pa...

Sarah Barnie’s Sewing Story

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August 25, 2010
Five years ago Sarah started sewing clothing to sell through a Self-Help loan. She is a good seamstress and very hardworking, but always lac...

Recent News from Ghana

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February 16, 2010
February 2010 Merry Fredrick, Self-Help’s Executive Director, just returned from her bi-annual trip to Ghana. She tries to visit each ...
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