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Looking Bravely: Supporting Nutrition for Expectant and Newborn Mothers

We recently spoke with Anita Agartha Kargbo, a program officer for nutrition in Sierra Leone. Anita has been part of

Hawa Sissoko is a housewife in Kéréko, a small village in Mali. She, like many of her neighbors, would have

In a small community health clinic in Matotoka township in the northern provinces of Sierra Leone, 25-year-old Kadiatu Bangura cradles

Once upon a time, lymphatic filariasis plagued the entire country of Sierra Leone. The parasite-borne neglected tropical disease, transmitted through

As part of his annual win-a-trip series, New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof traveled to Sierra Leone with recent graduate

The World Health Organization announced the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Mali. Though not the first

Milestone signals nearly 10 million spared from blinding disease (May 16, 2023) – Mali has become the 17th country to

We recently spoke with Nisha Sharma, a specialist in child feeding in Nepal. Since joining Helen Keller Intl in 2010,

In just three years, the ravages of COVID-19 reversed decades of progress in the fight against malnutrition. Compounded by the

When Helen Keller health workers visited Biaback Guiliagne’s home in a rural Cameroon village, he was surprised at first, but