Maria Miranda has been working with the grassroots organization East LA Rising for 17 years. So, she knows all too well the barriers that people in her community face when trying to access vision care.[...]
Moshammat Rojina Begum’s eyes had been bothering her for days, making it difficult to complete her work at a garment factory in the suburbs of Dhaka,[...]
Working to improve healthcare and nutrition requires a commitment to understanding the inequities within health and food systems – and to finding partners who can implement cost-effective solutions that improve outcomes on a large scale and for the long[...]
Moul Saren was pleasantly surprised when she returned to work after maternity leave for her third child. The factory where she works as a quality control inspector, Copius, in Cambodia’s Takeo Province, had equipped a lactation room to support breastfeeding[...]
Efero Wilson's two-year-old son, Vasco Patreque, was listless and wasn’t interested in playing. She was concerned that he also had unexplained swelling in some areas of his[...]
We recently spoke with Donna J. Jultuda, State Coordinator for Helen Keller Intl in Adamawa, Nigeria. Donna has led our work to improve health and nutrition for women and children among internally displaced people in Adamawa since[...]
During her first pregnancy, Mary Furaha didn’t attend any prenatal care appointments. Her second pregnancy is different. The 23-year-old is not only regularly visiting her healthcare provider but is also attending a peer support group for pregnant women in[...]
US Government funding suspensions have put 100 million people at risk of neglected tropical diseases in the countries where we work. We spoke to three colleagues leading this work to get their personal perspectives on the impacts of these funding[...]