The mother of five children, Aida Abril knows a few things about raising happy and healthy children. She is now using that knowledge to teach other mothers in the Chicomphende village of Mozambique how to keep their children healthy and[...]
The solution to helping students see clearly is simple: properly prescribed glasses. But as the Helen Keller team in Vietnam will tell you, the road to success is often blurry. In rural Vietnam, one in five children don’t know that the blurry world they see[...]
Niger is a microcosm of the impact of the Lake Chad crisis on the desperately poor zones affected by it. The landlocked West African country ranks 188th of 188 countries on the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development[...]
Hoang Thi Lan is a 12-year-old girl whose family lives in a rural area of the Hai Hau District of Vietnam. When she was 18 months old, her right eye suddenly became[...]
Since February 2015, attacks by the Boko Haram terrorist group have spread from northeastern Nigeria to Cameroon, Niger and Chad, affecting a total of nearly 21 million people in what is called the Lake Chad Basin. Across the four countries, at least 2.6[...]
In March, I traveled with Helen Keller International to Nusa Tenggara Timur (East Nusa Tenggara), Indonesia, to support the local team in evaluating one of their programs. In my role at BioAnalyt, I support organizations and researchers monitoring the[...]
The New York Times is taking a look back at the lives of leaders and visionaries and Helen Keller International’s co-founder and namesake Helen Keller was recently featured. The article paints a vivid picture of Helen Keller’s life as author,[...]
“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[...]
On 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[...]
The mother of five children, Aida Abril knows a few things about raising happy and healthy children. She is now using that knowledge to teach other mothers in the Chicomphende village of Mozambique how to keep their children healthy and[...] 
The solution to helping students see clearly is simple: properly prescribed glasses. But as the Helen Keller team in Vietnam will tell you, the road to success is often blurry. In rural Vietnam, one in five children don’t know that the blurry world they see[...] 
Niger is a microcosm of the impact of the Lake Chad crisis on the desperately poor zones affected by it. The landlocked West African country ranks 188th of 188 countries on the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development[...] 
Hoang Thi Lan is a 12-year-old girl whose family lives in a rural area of the Hai Hau District of Vietnam. When she was 18 months old, her right eye suddenly became[...] 
You cross a divide traveling four hours outside of Hanoi, Vietnam, an urban metropolis with an airport more modern than those in New York[...] 
In March, I traveled with Helen Keller International to Nusa Tenggara Timur (East Nusa Tenggara), Indonesia, to support the local team in evaluating one of their programs. In my role at BioAnalyt, I support organizations and researchers monitoring the[...] 
The New York Times is taking a look back at the lives of leaders and visionaries and Helen Keller International’s co-founder and namesake Helen Keller was recently featured. The article paints a vivid picture of Helen Keller’s life as author,[...] 
“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[...] 
On 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[...]