Category: Helping Families Grow Better Food
Nourishing Children for Life in Mozambique
Meet four residents of a rural village in northern Mozambique whose volunteer service holds the potential to transform their own and fellow community members’ lives.
Read more about Nourishing Children for Life in MozambiqueInternational Women’s Day 2020: Sisterhood Transforms Lives in Nepal
In celebration of International Women’s Day 2020, we are proud to share a report highlighting progress in our efforts not only to prevent malnutrition among vulnerable children, but also to improve the status of women.
Read more about International Women’s Day 2020: Sisterhood Transforms Lives in NepalSweet Potatoes: A ‘Magic Crop’ for Better Nutrition?
Orange-fleshed sweet potato is high in Vitamin A that Sierra Leonean children so sorely need.
Read more about Sweet Potatoes: A ‘Magic Crop’ for Better Nutrition?The ‘Great Potato’ Helps Farmers Boost Income and Health
Since she began growing it a few years ago, Massah Abdulai hasn’t stopped singing the praises of the orange-fleshed sweet potato. “Our children are getting sick less often.”
Read more about The ‘Great Potato’ Helps Farmers Boost Income and HealthWomen in Senegal are Raising Chickens to Raise their Standard of Living
We revisited two entrepreneurial Senegalese women to hear what they’ve been up to with the help of Helen Keller’s CHANGE project.
Read more about Women in Senegal are Raising Chickens to Raise their Standard of LivingA Multi-faceted Approach to Improving Nutrition in Vietnam
Ha Thi Theu was still learning the ropes of motherhood when she became a widow. Her husband died when their baby son was only 8 months old.
Read more about A Multi-faceted Approach to Improving Nutrition in VietnamCHANGE Comes to Abaza: Fatie’s Story
The first time Fatie Sore sowed the seeds of a plant called African nightshade, her curiosity about the vegetable was tinged with apprehension.
Read more about CHANGE Comes to Abaza: Fatie’s StoryNurturing Connections for Healthier Communities
Laughter echoes through the grove of cashew trees as the group watches a respected local elder enthusiastically pretending to pound cassava roots as though he were a little girl.
Read more about Nurturing Connections for Healthier CommunitiesPlanting Seeds for Better Lives
The village of Ahsygyi is situated in the Ayeyarwady region of southwest Myanmar. More people live in poverty in Ayeyarwady than in any other part of the country.
Read more about Planting Seeds for Better LivesHow a Mother Became a Model Farmer and Entrepreneur
Earning enough money was a challenge for Sharada’s family. Even though she grew vegetables to sell, they were in season only half the year. That meant her husband had to go out of the country in search of work.
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