Category: Our Stories
Preventive Treatment Helps Build Healthy Futures for Children in Sierra Leone
Nurse Aminata Sama always dreamed of helping her community stay healthy. She thought her work would focus on helping people
Read more about Preventive Treatment Helps Build Healthy Futures for Children in Sierra LeoneFarming Expert Helps Displaced Nigerian Women Cultivate Food Security and Livelihoods
Rebecca Clement has been cultivating nutritious fruits and vegetables since she was a child. Growing up in a family of
Read more about Farming Expert Helps Displaced Nigerian Women Cultivate Food Security and LivelihoodsSaving Sight and Lives with Micro but Mighty Vitamin A
Vitamin A is a micronutrient that is critical to children’s growing bodies and brains. A single capsule of vitamin A
Read more about Saving Sight and Lives with Micro but Mighty Vitamin ABuilding Upon Our Legacy of Health, Nutrition, and Vision
Over the past several decades, Helen Keller Intl has continued to expand our ability to help people around the world
Read more about Building Upon Our Legacy of Health, Nutrition, and Vision2023 Year in Review: Forces for Good [Photo Essay]
Every day, members of the Helen Keller Intl community are choosing to be forces for good. Community health heroes, entrepreneurs,
Read more about 2023 Year in Review: Forces for Good [Photo Essay]How Partnership Led to Eliminating an Endemic Blinding Disease in Mali
Earlier this year, the World Health Organization announced Mali as the 17th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health
Read more about How Partnership Led to Eliminating an Endemic Blinding Disease in MaliPreventing Vision Loss from Diabetic Retinopathy in Bangladesh
Nasima Khatun’s vision had been deteriorating for years. It had gotten so bad she was unable to recognize the faces
Read more about Preventing Vision Loss from Diabetic Retinopathy in BangladeshLooking Bravely: Eliminating Blinding Trachoma in Mali
We recently spoke with Benoit Dembélé who is our Regional Technical Advisor for Neglected Tropical Diseases in West Africa. Benoit
Read more about Looking Bravely: Eliminating Blinding Trachoma in MaliSweet Potatoes: Nutrition, Economic Security, and Inspiration
In her village in west central Burkina Faso, 34-year-old Kacoara Dahourou, a mother of four, knows firsthand the hardships of
Read more about Sweet Potatoes: Nutrition, Economic Security, and InspirationSierra Leone Poised for Liberation from “Bigfut” [A Photo Essay]
Once upon a time, lymphatic filariasis plagued the entire country of Sierra Leone. The parasite-borne neglected tropical disease, transmitted through
Read more about Sierra Leone Poised for Liberation from “Bigfut” [A Photo Essay]