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We Are Dedicated, We Are “Scrappy” and "We Make Change Happen"

With a Passion for Justice

Who is the "WE"?

WE break barriers
WE “Build Strong, Healthy, Prosperous Rural Communities”.
WE have a Passion for justice that drives who we are and everything we do.
WE work with families and communities, partners and policy-makers, to dismantle policies and systems that shouldn’t exist, and to build the policy infrastructure and institutions of equity that should.

Leadership

Important Documents - 56 Years of Breaking Barriers

Latest News

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We break barriers ....

Plantationism

HEALTH CARE

SMHA Created Teche Action Clinic, 1st medical and dental clinic for sugar-cane farmworker families. It became a model for what is now a system of 52 clinics across the state of Louisiana and operate independent of SMHA.

TECHE RIDGE

Iberia Parish's 1st and only Traditional Neighborhood Development - access to services and daily life needs with walkable distance to neighbors, parks and businesses.

SMFS

SMHA's mortgage lending affiliate created to meet the needs of rural Louisiana families and is a certified U.S. Treasurey Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI)

We Transform Rural Communities by ….

Building Equitable Institutions

Leveraging Private Sector Investment

Supporting ALL ASPECTS of Rural Recovery and Development

Protecting Our Lands And Waters

Thank you to our long time supporters! If you wish to continue supporting SMHA, please contact us.

Would you like to know more about Southern Mutual Help Association?

Call (337) 367-3277 or Email smha@southernmutualhelp.org

Now in Our 56th Year!

50th Anniversary Celebration

This is wonderful; thanks for sharing. Congratulations on 50 years of outstanding work. Hilda is wonderful choice….smart, knowledgeable, known, committed. All the best to you and SMHA in the coming year. Arden Shank

Honoring Those Before Us

Excellent video!! Well done. You’re all set for another fifty years of success. Bob Warwick

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