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Helping Children and Families Live Healthier

A father, son, and mother sit under their raised house in Cambodia.

Helping Children and Families Live Healthier 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 States to overcome barriers to good health, sound nutrition, […]

Helping Children and Families See Possibilities with Vision Care

A boy trying on glasses as part of vision care gives a double thumbs up as a man holds up a mirror.

Helping Children and Families See Possibilities with Vision CareVision care is out of reach for many children and families across the United States because it is too expensive or difficult to access. As many as 4 million children and 12 million adults in the US are living with impaired vision due to an uncorrected refractive […]

Protecting a Community from Onchocerciasis with Preventive Medication

Four members of different generations of a Cameroonian family sit together.

Protecting a Community from Onchocerciasis with Preventive MedicationWhen Patrice Messolo was a boy, his grandfather and uncle became very sick. They both lost their vision and developed skin lesions on their legs due to what Patrice would later learn was onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness. Without treatment, this neglected tropical disease can cause disfiguring […]

Speaking Technically: Dr. Al Sommer on the Surprising Discovery of Vitamin A

A young Cameroonian boy receives a vitamin A supplement.

Speaking Technically: Dr. Al Sommer on the Surprising Discovery of Vitamin A In the 1970s, experts from Helen Keller Intl spearheaded research on vitamin A that has helped save millions of lives and shaped the organization’s work for decades. Dr. Al Sommer, now Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, […]

Building Upon Our Legacy of Health, Nutrition, and Vision

A healthcare worker tends to a small baby being held by his mother.

Building Upon Our Legacy of Health, Nutrition, and VisionOver the past several decades, Helen Keller Intl has continued to expand our ability to help people around the world create lasting change in their own lives. Today, we reach more than 70 million children and family members across 20 countries with the essential building blocks of […]

How Partnership Led to Eliminating an Endemic Blinding Disease in Mali

A woman wearing a headscarf with a flower pattern has her eyes examined by a healthcare worker.

How Partnership Led to Eliminating an Endemic Blinding Disease in MaliEarlier this year, the World Health Organization announced Mali as the 17th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem. This is a milestone more than two decades in the making. Trachoma was once pervasive in nearly every region of the country, putting nearly […]

Helen Keller Intl joins Partners at the Reaching Last Mile Forum in Commitment to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases

Group of young children smiling and clapping in Senegal.

Helen Keller Intl joins Partners at the Reaching Last Mile Forum in Commitment to Combat Neglected Tropical DiseasesOur co-founder Helen Keller’s words “alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” continue to guide and inspire our mission. Together, partners across the world have made tremendous progress in tackling debilitating, neglected diseases, […]

Cultivating Economic Security through Farming in Nepal

A Nepalese woman stands in a field holding a large cabbage in each hand.

Cultivating Economic Security through Farming in NepalIn Nepal’s remote, mountainous Taplejung district, Pemba Doma Sherpa harvests vegetables from her fields on a steep hillside. She sells her produce at the local market twice a week, providing enough money to support her family and send her two daughters to private school. However, Pemba’s finances weren’t always […]

Clear Vision Brings True Potential into Focus

A boy with dark skin and glasses sits at a desk in a classroom surrounded by peers. He is turned toward the camera.

Clear Vision Brings True Potential into FocusLiving with childhood cataracts meant that 10-year-old Ulrich Amassoga had never experienced clear vision before. He had difficulty in school and dealt with bullying from classmates because of his condition. Two years ago, Helen Keller began providing vision screenings in schools in Cameroon in partnership with USAID’s Child Blindness […]

Helping People See True Potential

On the left, there is a graphic of a girl wearing a yellow dress and standing on a white pillar. To her right large white and orange text reads "She can thrive."

Helping People See True PotentialImpaired vision can cause long-lasting challenges for children and adults throughout their lives. In childhood, poor vision will make it more difficult for a student to fully engage in the classroom and with her peers, putting her education at risk. This can start a downward spiral, especially for a child already […]