Growing Healthy Food Growing Healthy Children
It’s Not Easy, but it’s Worth It: Growing Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato
By Patience Obour, Nutrition Program Officer Elizabeth, a mother of two from the village of Beposo in southern Ghana, joined Self-Help’...
Agricultural Entrepreneurship Team Creates Demand for Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato in Ashanti Region
By Bernard Frimpong Bannor – Agriculture & Entrepreneurship Program Officer In Self-Help International’s quest to alleviate hunger...
Akosua Grows More Confident About Her Children’s Futures Thanks to Better Nutrition
By Jesse Jackson Sarkodie, Nutrition Program Officer It is often sad to see malnourished women and their children in our rural communities. ...
Progress Report: Growing Healthy Food, Growing Healthy Children
By Mary Jane Oakland, PhD Since I last wrote to you just after returning from Ghana in February, Self-Help’s team in Ghana wasted no time in...
Infant Malnutrition and What Our New Program is Doing About It: Growing Healthy Food, Growing Healthy Children
by Katie Jackson, Communications Intern, and Megan Sehr, Development Director In Roger Thurow’s recently published book, The First 1,000 Day...
No More Stunting in Beposo: Self-Help’s “Growing Healthy Food, Growing Healthy Children” Program
By Jerry Perkins and Nora Tobin. This article originally appeared in the Des Moines Register on October 14, 2018. Reprinted with permis...
I Am Amos
I am Amos and I am 8 months old, and you see me in this picture riding on my mother’s back, as she weeds and cultivates the orange fleshed s...
Growing Healthy Food, Growing Healthy Children
1 in 4 Children Self-Help International has been instrumental in starting feeding programs in primary schools in rural villages in the Ashan...
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