It Takes All of Us
It takes all of us to build a better world.
With your help, community health heroes are ridding the world of debilitating neglected tropical diseases, like blinding trachoma in Mali. With your help, women like Kacoara are growing nutrient-rich foods for their families and helping other women do the same. With your help, communities in Cambodia are improving food and health systems to better protect infants’ health. With your help, families are changing the way they grow food, so crops are more resilient to extreme weather. With your help, children are gaining a better education—and the chance for a brighter future—with a simple pair of eyeglasses.
We live in a deeply unequal world and the headlines can be overwhelming.
- As many as 783 million people currently face chronic hunger, as food prices rise and crops become harder to grow because of increasingly extreme weather.
- More than 1 billion people suffer from at least 1 neglected tropical disease, which gravely impacts their health and livelihoods.
- Nearly 1/3 of the world’s children don’t get enough vitamin A in their diets, leaving them susceptible to vision loss and disease.
- Nearly 2/3 of pregnant women are vitamin deficient, which places them and their developing babies at risk.
Yet despite these challenges, people are incredibly resilient.
Helen Keller Intl is supporting governments and communities in building resilient health and food systems. We are ensuring that even the families facing the greatest challenges have quality care and nutritious diets. It will take all of us working together to achieve these goals. You and the entire Helen Keller community have a tremendously positive impact:
- Introducing climate-smart farming techniques so that families can grow their own nutritious foods and generate income at the same time.
- Investing in powerful treatment and prevention practices so that people can protect themselves and their communities against debilitating and disabling neglected tropical diseases.
- Delivering twice-annual vitamin A supplements to children under the age of five so they can grow healthy and strong.
- Prioritizing nutrition for mothers and their babies, protecting their lives and preventing futures plagued by poor health.
The actions we take now may be our most important.
Helen Keller said: “It cannot be unreasonable to ask of society a fair chance for all.” And like Helen, we are taking a stand against the inequities in the world by investing in evidence-based solutions that offer millions of children and their families the ability to create lasting change in their own lives.
You can ensure that children and families receive the right support at the right time.
It will take all of us to build a better world. And Helen Keller’s cost-effective solutions mean that your gift will go further, making an even bigger impact for families around the globe.
Your gift today can do more than you ever imagined:
$100 can provide training for 10 community healthcare heroes who will help eliminate disease in their community.
$500 can protect the vision of 15 children so that they too can invest in lives and communities to build stronger futures.
$1000 can fund 5 cataract surgeries, allowing grandparents to see their grandchildren grow strong.
$5000 can treat 15 children for malnutrition, bringing them back from the brink and creating a second chance.
Choose to join us.
