Category: Helping Families Grow Better Food
What’s My Status? How Engaging 4,000 Households in a Nutrition Survey Encourages Behavior Change
In March, I traveled with Helen Keller International to Nusa Tenggara Timur (East Nusa Tenggara), Indonesia, to support the local
Read more about What’s My Status? How Engaging 4,000 Households in a Nutrition Survey Encourages Behavior ChangeHomestead Food Production Featured as Nutrition Success Story
Helen Keller International’s homestead food production programs have been featured in a new book called “Nourishing Millions: Stories of Change
Read more about Homestead Food Production Featured as Nutrition Success StoryGardening: A Sustainable Solution for Malnutrition?
Over three million children die every year due to causes related to malnutrition—most of them in low-income countries. The situation
Read more about Gardening: A Sustainable Solution for Malnutrition?Examining Impact of Gender Relations Curriculum
“One day I returned from the field and found that [my husband] had gone to draw the water and fill
Read more about Examining Impact of Gender Relations CurriculumHomegrown Nutrition Works in Burkina Faso
Washington, D.C.—A recent study out of Burkina Faso shows that integrating nutrition and health education and women’s empowerment interventions into
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On International Women’s Day, we are proud to announce that Helen Keller International’s Women-Centered Homestead Food Production Program in Cambodia
Read more about Cambodia Enhanced Homestead Food Production Model Wins Prestigious Gates Challenge AwardFrom Poor Man’s Crop to Helen Potatoes
Vitamin A deficiency remains the leading cause of preventable blindness in children in developing countries. Unfortunately, that’s just the beginning.
Read more about From Poor Man’s Crop to Helen PotatoesGrowing Crops and Confidence in Tanzania
Revina Francis is a young single mother living in a small fishing village on Ukerewe Island in northwest Tanzania. She
Read more about Growing Crops and Confidence in TanzaniaLife During the Harvest
The Harvest Basket: In the Sahel in West Africa – a semi-arid region just south of the Sahara desert
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“Since I started planting vegetables in May 2014 in our yard, I haven’t spent money anymore to buy green vegetables.
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