My last day in the Helen Keller Intl regional office in Dakar, Senegal, as Vice President for our Africa programs, was July 31, 2013. It was a bittersweet moment: I left behind work I love, a wonderful team, and had great anxiety about leaving Africa, where I[...]
We recently spoke with Patrick Mbia, Program Advisor for Neglected Tropical Diseases in Cameroon to discuss this life-saving effort. Neglected tropical diseases – sometimes called diseases of poverty – cause blindness, painful physical deformities,[...]
After joining Helen Keller Intl in 1997 to manage the home gardening program, Kroeun Hou, Deputy Country Director in Cambodia, became passionate about how food production can be linked to better nutrition. “Finding better ways to address the needs of[...]
A Helen Keller nutrition advisor and a nurse share how coronavirus has changed the ways they help even the most remote Senegalese communities access health care and good[...]
Tonya Suer, New York Vision Program Manager, discusses how “stay-at-home” measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 will affect children’s ability not only to see, but also to[...]
Helen Keller International is excited to welcome three new senior leaders to our global team whose track records for delivering results will help drive long-term[...]