by Briana Nowak | Jan 23, 2017 | Community Development, Education, Nicaragua, Strong Harvest News, Water & Food Security, West Africa
2016 was an amazing year for Strong Harvest International! Last year hundreds of people learned how to improve their health, gain access to clean water, and increase their family income – all from the moringa tree, a superfood growing right in their own...
by Jeri | May 5, 2016 | Community Development, Nicaragua
When we train 40 people and they turn around and share their new knowledge with 900 others! One of the most impacting thing we learned during our April trip to Nicaragua was that the 40 new moringa Peer Educators we trained in El Zapote and Granada just four months...
by Jeri | Apr 22, 2016 | Community Development, Nicaragua
While returning from a great trip to Nicaragua, I was re-routed through El Salvador due to the bad weather in Houston and then got to spend the night in the San Fransisco airport 🙂 In the tradition of making lemonade out of lemons, I took my new-found extra time to...
by Jeri | Jan 9, 2016 | Community Development, Nicaragua
This is Mercedes. She lives with her husband, Renee, in the village of Cristo Rey, Nicaragua. A village that’s right across the dirt road from the city dump. Most of the adults in this place make their living as garbage pickers. Their houses are pieced together...
by Jeri | Dec 30, 2015 | Community Development, Education, Nicaragua
This was one of the BEST Strong Harvest trips ever! In early December, we (SHI founders Rick and Jeri, and board member Sue Ellen) headed back to Nicaragua, partnering with Leader a Lider (Leader to Leader) to provide Moringa Peer Educator training in two very...
