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Kayode Kadara of Allensworth, and Board member of Self-Help Enterprises, has been appointed to the Tulare County Water Commission.

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Self-Help Enterprises joined the residents of Plainview to celebrate the grand opening of the community’s first park. Self-Help Enterprises secured funding from the State Department of Housing and Community Development to create this public space and worked together community partners including the Plainview Community, Plainview Water Mutual Company, El Quinto Sol de America, and Tulare County.

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After nearly two years with a contaminated well Orange Center Elementary School will soon be on the city of Fresno’s water system. “Schools purposes are to educate children. They don’t want to be managing water, and that’s what they’ve been doing is managing a water system. So by connected to the city they no longer have that problem,” said Sue Ruiz, Self-Help- Enterprises.

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Goshen residents will come together to clean up their streets and beautify the community. The event is co-sponsored by Self-Help Enterprises in celebration of national NeighborWorks Week, dedicated to bringing residents together for neighborhood change and awareness.

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Self-Help Enterprises is working with the city of Newman to and Mariposa County on temporary drought relief efforts as well as a long-term solution.

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Residents of Matheny Tract, a rural community of 350+ homes near Tulare where water is contaminated by arsenic and nitrate, celebrate the connection to the City of Tulare water system. Self-Help Enterprises has been providing technical assistance and working with the community to obtain funding for the water well project.

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Drought-slammed residents in the Kings County community of Hardwick, northwest of Hanford, are getting a new well, a permanent solution to persistent water problems. Self-Help Enterprises has been providing technical assistance and working with the community to obtain funding for the water well project.

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Two factors determine populations—migration and natural change (i.e., births and deaths)—and both are creating substantial shifts in rural demographics. Tom Collishaw, CEO of Self-Help Enterprises, shares how the organization is strong-armed into making investments in older rural housing several years ago when California dictated “universal design”—the inclusion of handicap friendly house plans—as a stipulation for receiving state funds.

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Self-Help Enterprises and the Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) will be hosting a Water Boards Leadership Institute, which strengthens community leadership by teaching skills and tools to be more intentional, effective and energized leaders.

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Self-Help Enterprises and the Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) will be hosting a Water Boards Leadership Institute, which strengthens community leadership by teaching skills and tools to be more intentional, effective and energized leaders.

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