USAID-funded MMDP Project: A New Chance at Life

Group of people wearing colorful traditional clothing sit together outdoors, smiling and engaging in conversation.To give affected people a new chance at life by saving sight and restoring mobility, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) made a significant investment in 2014 by funding the five-year, flagship Morbidity Management and Disability[...]

2018 Year in Review

Two joyful boys embrace and smile at the camera, showing friendship and happiness.We welcome 2019 and all the opportunities it brings to strengthen our impact and accelerate our progress toward improving the health of the world’s most vulnerable[...]

On World Sight Day, Let’s Recommit to Ending Trachoma

Close-up of a joyful woman smiling, wearing a pink headscarf and green clothingAcross the globe, there are 200 million people at risk of trachoma, a preventable, blinding infectious disease.  More than three million people are in need of immediate surgery to avoid blindness due to trichiasis, a manifestation of trachoma that causes[...]

Helen Keller International on Capitol Hill

Helen Keller staff on Capitol HillThis month Helen Keller International took part in two important events in Washington, DC, to increase support for programs empowering women through better access to health services and good nutrition. Vice President, Nutrition Rolf Klemm joined[...]

Health Through Knowledge: Addressing Global Needs in Lymphedema

Group of people sitting outside while a man hands a bucket to a woman.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[...]