Washington, D.C.—A recent study out of Burkina Faso shows that integrating nutrition and health education and women’s empowerment interventions into an agriculture program, if well-designed and run, can improve child and maternal undernutrition in a[...]
2016 World Lymphedema Day is March 6. During the January 2016 filming of the USAID MMDP Project hydrocele and lymphedema management training videos in Dixcove, Ghana, Dr. Danny Haddad, MMDP Project Technical Director, and Dr. Sunny Mante, MMDP Project[...]
In my experience working with Helen Keller Intl in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one thing that has been a constant is the positive feedback from partners working on the ground to improve the health and nutrition of children across the country. This has[...]
Helen Keller International set up the first modern cataract center outside Hanoi and HCMC in Nam Dinh in 1994; an easy 4 hour drive South from Hanoi, where electricity was relatively reliable and there were already skilled[...]
Dengue. Malaria. Ebola. These are just some of the conditions that Helen Keller International staff have contracted or been exposed to while delivering services to communities in 22 countries around the world. From the office in New York City where I sit,[...]
This story was originally posted on End in Africa’s website on August 20, 2015. “My old shoes are worn out and I was thinking if my parents can afford to buy me another pair of shoes before the opening of school.” Fatmata, age 8[...]
It was on an Helen Keller Intl Board trip to Sierra Leone in February 2014 that our group visited a small rural village en route to another location. We stopped at a health clinic to meet with members of the staff, some patients, and residents of the[...]
When the 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, late morning on a Saturday, many of us were unprepared for what would follow. The last big earthquake at this scale was almost 80 years ago. In what seemed like the ground was moving constantly, we experienced[...]
Soon after I graduated from the University of Nairobi with a degree in Ophthalmology, I worked in an eye hospital where I would see up to 100 patients a day and perform 100 surgeries a week. When I moved to Ethiopia, I worked for the government in[...]
