3 Things to be Optimistic About in 2025

A Kenyan mother smiles at her baby. I find life an exciting business – and most exciting when it is lived for others. Helen Keller A new year brings new opportunities to celebrate our progress and recognize the prospects we have to create positive ripples for children and families around the[...]

Helen Keller Recognized as Top Global Charity by The Economist

The Economist recently recognized Helen Keller Intl for our high-impact, cost-effective programs in the article, The Search for the World’s Most Efficient Charities.  The piece highlights the charity evaluator GiveWell’s rigorous approach to[...]

Vox Recommends Helen Keller as a Top Charity to Support

As part of its Guide to Giving, Vox named Helen Keller Intl one of the top, most cost-effective global health charities.  The piece praised Helen Keller for addressing wide-spread vitamin A deficiency across Africa and Asia through twice-yearly[...]

Helping Children Grow Up Healthier with Vitamin A

A Cameroonian community health worker shows a bottle if vitamin A to a mother and her children.Vitamin A is critical to children’s healthy growth and development. This essential micronutrient not only protects and strengthens vision, but it helps build strong immune systems. For more than 50 years, Helen Keller Intl has been at the forefront of[...]

Helping Children and Families Live Healthier 

A father, son, and mother sit under their raised house in Cambodia.Helen Keller Intl believes in a world where no one is deprived of the opportunity to live a healthy life and reach their true potential.  Working with our global community, we’re supporting millions of families across Africa, Asia, and the United[...]

Climate-Smart Agriculture Supports a Community

Although Maliatou Nignan and her family had been farming for years, they still struggled to grow enough food to feed themselves or earn an income. As Maliatou says, they “worked hard on arid lands” in their community of Zoro in southern Burkina Faso.[...]

2023 Year in Review: Forces for Good [Photo Essay]

A Burkinabe woman kneels while tending to six goats.Every day, members of the Helen Keller Intl community are choosing to be forces for good. Community health heroes, entrepreneurs, parents, youth, and Helen Keller staff work tirelessly to help improve health, nutrition, and vision for people in their[...]

Sweet Potatoes: Nutrition, Economic Security, and Inspiration

A woman with dark skin kneels on the ground behind rows of small plants. She is wearing a bright orange shirt and a floral print skirt, with a baby on her back in a striped wrap.In her village in west central Burkina Faso, 34-year-old Kacoara Dahourou, a mother of four, knows firsthand the hardships of financial insecurity and hunger. Growing nutritious foods in a region that receives little rain – and finding affordable foods[...]