The New York Times Highlights the Power of Exclusive Breastfeeding

A Kenyan woman holds a small baby on her lap as another woman looks on.A new piece from The New York Times explores a time-tested way to support babies’ growth and development: breastfeeding. Read the full article here: A Low-Tech Way to Save Babies’ Lives Helen Keller Intl’s Chief Program Officer, Shawn Baker, points out[...]

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[...]

2024 Year in Review: Ripple Effects [Photo Essay]

Last year, Helen Keller Intl reached 81 million children and family members with the building blocks of good health, sound nutrition, and clear vision. Community health heroes, peer mentors, parents, young people, and Helen Keller staff are creating positive[...]

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[...]

Saving Sight and Lives with Micro but Mighty Vitamin A

A close up of a young girl in Cameroon receiving a vitamin A supplement.Vitamin A is a micronutrient that is critical to children’s growing bodies and brains. A single capsule of vitamin A – at a little more than $1 each – given to children twice a year until their fifth birthday can literally save their sight and[...]

Women at the heart of our work 

Mother gives child a vitamin A supplement.Women are the cornerstones of many families. They oversee home life — raising the children, preparing meals, even fetching water — and they bear responsibility for part, if not all, of their families’ livelihoods. In times of struggle, women often put[...]