77% of Sierra Leoneans lack reliable access to affordable, nutritious food, according to the World Food Programme. Last year, more than 2,600 farmers like Aunty Sento in Sierra Leone have received climate-smart training and tools to cultivate crops like[...]
UNICEF estimates that improving breastfeeding rates worldwide could save the lives of more than 820,000 children under the age of five each year. Helen Keller Intl is helping mothers adopt this simple and cost-effective lifesaving approach across the[...]
At age 40, Suzette was unexpectedly pregnant. She already had two older children, who were then 14 and 10, but a previous miscarriage left her anxious about having another child. However, through her work, she learned how she could keep herself and her[...]
Noé is 86 years old, but that doesn’t stop him from working day and night to protect the health of children in his community. Under his leadership, the local health committee has worked with Helen Keller Intl and the government of Cameroon to help all[...]
Thirty-year-old Jummai starts her mornings preparing food for the small business that sustains her household of six. But life has not always been so predictable for her. Jummai became head of her household in Fufore, Nigeria, at a young age. Her father[...]
Lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic neglected tropical disease that can cause debilitating symptoms, used to be a fact of life in Sidimoukar, Burkina[...]
An article from The Guardian details Nepal's tremendous progress in reducing child malnutrition and warns that those gains are now at risk due to foreign aid cuts. For years, Nepal has been a global success story in the fight against child malnutrition.[...]
A story from NPR highlights Helen Keller Intl’s innovative, community-based approach to treating childhood malnutrition in Senegal. Journalist Jonathan Lambert traveled to Keur Mbar in Western Senegal to report on the program, interviewing Helen Keller[...]
“I have only two daughters. I was heartbroken when I learned that both were malnourished,” says Sita, a 30-year-old woman from Bardiya District in Nepal’s Lumbini Province. Sita takes care of her two children while her husband, a mason, travels from[...]
Neglected tropical diseases affect more than a billion people worldwide, and can cause blindness, organ damage, and stunted development, among other long-term consequences. At Helen Keller Intl, eliminating these diseases is core to our mission. And this[...]
77% of Sierra Leoneans lack reliable access to affordable, nutritious food, according to the World Food Programme. Last year, more than 2,600 farmers like Aunty Sento in Sierra Leone have received climate-smart training and tools to cultivate crops like[...] 
UNICEF estimates that improving breastfeeding rates worldwide could save the lives of more than 820,000 children under the age of five each year. Helen Keller Intl is helping mothers adopt this simple and cost-effective lifesaving approach across the[...] 
At age 40, Suzette was unexpectedly pregnant. She already had two older children, who were then 14 and 10, but a previous miscarriage left her anxious about having another child. However, through her work, she learned how she could keep herself and her[...] 
Noé is 86 years old, but that doesn’t stop him from working day and night to protect the health of children in his community. Under his leadership, the local health committee has worked with Helen Keller Intl and the government of Cameroon to help all[...] 
Thirty-year-old Jummai starts her mornings preparing food for the small business that sustains her household of six. But life has not always been so predictable for her. Jummai became head of her household in Fufore, Nigeria, at a young age. Her father[...] 
Lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic neglected tropical disease that can cause debilitating symptoms, used to be a fact of life in Sidimoukar, Burkina[...] 
An article from The Guardian details Nepal's tremendous progress in reducing child malnutrition and warns that those gains are now at risk due to foreign aid cuts. For years, Nepal has been a global success story in the fight against child malnutrition.[...] 
A story from NPR highlights Helen Keller Intl’s innovative, community-based approach to treating childhood malnutrition in Senegal. Journalist Jonathan Lambert traveled to Keur Mbar in Western Senegal to report on the program, interviewing Helen Keller[...] 
“I have only two daughters. I was heartbroken when I learned that both were malnourished,” says Sita, a 30-year-old woman from Bardiya District in Nepal’s Lumbini Province. Sita takes care of her two children while her husband, a mason, travels from[...] 
Neglected tropical diseases affect more than a billion people worldwide, and can cause blindness, organ damage, and stunted development, among other long-term consequences. At Helen Keller Intl, eliminating these diseases is core to our mission. And this[...]