International Development
Teen Girls Club Leaves No Girl Behind: Salamatu’s Story
By Victoria Yamson, Program Coordinator The Self-Help International Teen Girls Club tries to ensure as many Ghanaian girls as possible stay ...
Community Farmers in Nicaragua Talk Techniques, Setbacks, and Lessons Learned
By Jorge Luis Campos Solis, Nicaragua Country Director The town of La Conquista belongs to the municipality of San Miguelito in the southeas...
Nicaragua village unrecognizable to visiting Iowan, and that’s a good thing
This article originally appeared in The Des Moines Register. Online on 12/19/2018 and in print on 12/23/2018. By Jerry Perkins, Self-Help I...
Holiday Letter from Board President Richard Neal
Investors in Self-Help International, As 2018 comes to an end, I hope you will join me in celebrating three things: our significant progress...
A Look Inside the Happier Lives of Nicaraguans with Clean Water
In the village of Rubén Darío, located in the Nueva Guinea municipality of southern Nicaragua, live 450 people, settled in 80 houses. Most o...
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...
An Update from Nicaragua
Many of you have been following the news of ongoing political protests in Nicaragua and expressed concern for our staff and those we serve i...
Introducing Double Row Corn Technology to Nicaragua’s Farmers
By Jorge Campos Solis – Country Program Director Technification, innovation, invention or topological designs … whatever it may ...
Self-Help News: Spring Edition Newsletter is Here!
Joseph’s Business is Multiplying Like Rabbits!
Joseph is a 44-year-old man from the community of Bampenase, in the Ashanti region of Ghana. He is a teacher and serves as a headmaster of T...
Engaging a Community through Stove Building
by Yolanda Fletes & Edelia Cruz Torres – Micro-Credit Program Officers It has been a busy few months for Self-Help’s micro-credit ...
Gifty’s Gift of Health
“I am thankful to SHI for the gift of national health insurance. With this I can visit the clinic and have my body examined,” said Gifty wi...
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