Tracking Our Impact: The Many Applications of mHealth
It is no surprise phones are increasingly being used by individuals tracking their daily food intake and workout, researchers collecting data and doctors accessing patient information.
World Health Assembly Welcomes Resolution to Protect Infant and Child Nutrition
World Health Assembly Welcomes Resolution to Protect Infant and Child NutritionIt’s been 35 years since the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (the Code) was passed by the World Health Assembly (WHA). Last month, leaders at the 69th Assembly welcomed a new resolution aimed at protecting breastfeeding and the appropriate complementary feeding of young […]
Examining Impact of Gender Relations Curriculum
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 the cask. He had also made the fire, and told me to go wash up before coming to cook…the women in our village, seeing a man do all this for […]
Helen Keller Research Informs Global Health Policies on Infant and Young Child Health
Helen Keller Research Informs Global Health Policies on Infant and Young Child HealthImage: Ad in Senegal for Bledina products cross-promotes breastmilk substitutes with complementary foods for older children. Nutrition during the first two years of life is key. It helps children grow, feeds intelligence, and provides the foundation for a healthy and productive life. Focusing […]
Cambodia Enhanced Homestead Food Production Model Wins Prestigious Gates Challenge Award
Cambodia Enhanced Homestead Food Production Model Wins Prestigious Gates Challenge AwardOn International Women’s Day, we are proud to announce that Helen Keller International’s Women-Centered Homestead Food Production Program in Cambodia has been selected to receive a prestigious Grand Challenges grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Foundation announced 19 new awards totaling more […]
World Sight Day 2015 – Briefing Call on Trachoma
World Sight Day 2015 – Briefing Call on TrachomaListen to a podcast of Trachoma: A Journey to Elimination Learn more about our work in treating and eliminating trachoma and other diseases of poverty. Stories of Impact Sight Impacting Life Thierno Faye recounts his experience meeting a Nazifi Aminou who desperately needed eye surgery, and how HKI […]
Making Progress in Cambodia
Making Progress in CambodiaHelen Keller International’s efforts to bring our Homestead Food Production program to Cambodia has helped families like Mr. Phorn and Ms. Havas by providing a range of training, educational and material support to improve the quality and quantity of food produced, as well as improve a number of key hygiene and child […]
Improving Health, Nutrition, and Livelihood
Improving Health, Nutrition, and LivelihoodOver the past year, Helen Keller International has been working to bring our Homestead Food Production program to four districts of Ratanakiri Province in Cambodia, which is among the least developed countries in the world. The main objective of the project is to improve the health, nutrition and livelihood status of […]
Healthy Food and Opportunity in Cambodia
For more than 17 years, Helen Keller International has taught women in Cambodia to grow nutritious fruits and vegetables—many of them rich in sight- and life-saving vitamin A—for their families.
