Helping Children Grow Up Healthier with Vitamin A
Helping Children Grow Up Healthier with Vitamin AVitamin A is critical to children’s healthy growth and development. This essential micronutrient not only protects and strengthens vision, but it helps build strong immune systems. For more than 50 years, Helen Keller Intl has been at the forefront of vitamin A supplementation for children around the world. […]
Helping Children and Families Live Healthier
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, […]
Empowering Teen Girls to Lead Nutritional Change in their Communities
Empowering Teen Girls to Lead Nutritional Change in their CommunitiesAt just 13 years old, Wademu Ngmarju has made a name for herself in her community as an expert in farming and nutrition. She grows food in a home garden, raises chickens to earn income, and mentors other teen girls in farming and nutrition. She started […]
Looking Bravely: Promoting Equity in Global Health
Looking Bravely: Promoting Equity in Global HealthWe welcomed Sarah Bouchie as Helen Keller Intl’s President and CEO in January 2024. With nearly three decades of international development experience, Sarah has been both an implementer and advocate for prominent global nonprofits and a leader of the philanthropic investments that shape humanitarian and development efforts. She has […]
Championing Prenatal Vitamins in Sierra Leone
Championing Prenatal Vitamins in Sierra LeoneFor nearly 10 years, Boncapri Sesay has served as a peer educator, providing counseling and guidance to pregnant and breastfeeding women in her own community. Regularly hosting a group that meets under a mango tree in her rural village in Sierra Leone’s Northern Province, she is keen to share her […]
Associated Press Highlights Fortified Bouillon to Fight Malnutrition in West Africa
Associated Press Highlights Fortified Bouillon to Fight Malnutrition in West AfricaAugustine Okoruwa, Regional Program Manager for Food Fortification, recently spoke to the Associated Press about the impacts of the climate crisis on malnutrition in West Africa and how fortified bouillon cubes can help people add essential nutrients to their diets. “Farmlands are destroyed, you have […]
Speaking Technically: How the Climate Crisis is Driving a Nutrition Crisis
Speaking Technically: How the Climate Crisis is Driving a Nutrition CrisisWe recently spoke to Chief Program Officer Shawn Baker and Transforming Lives Program Director Philomena Orji about how the climate crisis is driving a nutrition crisis worldwide. Shawn leads Helen Keller’s efforts to strengthen food and health systems using scientifically proven solutions that are feasible, […]
Speaking Technically: Improving Support for Breastfeeding Mothers in Cambodia
Speaking Technically: Improving Support for Breastfeeding Mothers in CambodiaWe recently spoke to Chum Senveasna, Program Manager for Helen Keller Intl in Cambodia. Senveasna has supported our work on nutrition since 2016. He’s now leading our efforts to support breastfeeding mothers and improve nutrition for women and children across the country. What are the current recommendations for breastfeeding? […]
The Road to Nutrition for Growth
The Road to Nutrition for GrowthAll eyes are on Paris as the world prepares to open the 2024 Olympic Games, a symbol of health, strength, and human potential. France is also preparing to host another global moment: The Nutrition for Growth Summit. This global pledging moment, first held following the 2012 London Olympics, brings together world […]
Good Nutrition Starts with Moms
Good Nutrition Starts with MomsNearly half of all child deaths are attributed to malnutrition – more than AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and COVID-19 combined. What many don’t realize, however, is that malnutrition often starts in the womb. In fact, every year, maternal malnutrition leads to an estimated 800,000 deaths among newborns. Ensuring Healthy Starts for Children The […]
