Program Area: Healthcare
Homegrown Nutrition Works in Burkina Faso
Washington, D.C.—A recent study out of Burkina Faso shows that integrating nutrition and health education and women’s empowerment interventions into
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2016 World Lymphedema Day is March 6. During the January 2016 filming of the USAID MMDP Project hydrocele and lymphedema
Read more about Health Through Knowledge: Addressing Global Needs in LymphedemaFrom Poor Man’s Crop to Helen Potatoes
Vitamin A deficiency remains the leading cause of preventable blindness in children in developing countries. Unfortunately, that’s just the beginning.
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In my experience working with Helen Keller Intl in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one thing that has been a
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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 surgeons.
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Dengue. Malaria. Ebola. These are just some of the conditions that Helen Keller International staff have contracted or been exposed
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This story was originally posted on End in Africa’s website on August 20, 2015. “My old shoes are worn out
Read more about Helen Keller International and TOMS: Motivating Community Drug Distributors in Sierra LeoneCombating River Blindness in Sierra Leone
It was on an Helen Keller Intl Board trip to Sierra Leone in February 2014 that our group visited a
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When the 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, late morning on a Saturday, many of us were unprepared for
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Soon after I graduated from the University of Nairobi with a degree in Ophthalmology, I worked in an eye hospital where
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