UNICEF estimates that improving breastfeeding rates worldwide could save the lives of more than 820,000 children under the age of five each year. Helen Keller Intl is helping mothers adopt this simple and cost-effective lifesaving approach across the[...]
At age 40, Suzette was unexpectedly pregnant. She already had two older children, who were then 14 and 10, but a previous miscarriage left her anxious about having another child. However, through her work, she learned how she could keep herself and her[...]
Noé is 86 years old, but that doesn’t stop him from working day and night to protect the health of children in his community. Under his leadership, the local health committee has worked with Helen Keller Intl and the government of Cameroon to help all[...]
Thirty-year-old Jummai starts her mornings preparing food for the small business that sustains her household of six. But life has not always been so predictable for her. Jummai became head of her household in Fufore, Nigeria, at a young age. Her father[...]
An article from The Guardian details Nepal's tremendous progress in reducing child malnutrition and warns that those gains are now at risk due to foreign aid cuts. For years, Nepal has been a global success story in the fight against child malnutrition.[...]
“I have only two daughters. I was heartbroken when I learned that both were malnourished,” says Sita, a 30-year-old woman from Bardiya District in Nepal’s Lumbini Province. Sita takes care of her two children while her husband, a mason, travels from[...]
Inemesit and her husband, Inyang, work tirelessly as cassava farmers to keep their family of six healthy and happy, sending their children to the nearby public school in their community of Ibedu, near Nigeria’s southeastern coast. But they struggle to make[...]
Good nutrition is essential for a healthy pregnancy. Yet in many countries where we work, women begin pregnancy with micronutrient deficiencies, which can increase the risk of complications. A daily prenatal multivitamin—also known as multiple micronutrient[...]
Helen Keller Intl’s President and CEO Sarah Bouchie joined The Business of Giving Podcast for an in-depth interview. The conversation with host Denver Frederick covered our organization’s history and mission, the challenges of the past year, Sarah’s[...]
“Some mornings we didn’t know if there would be food by nightfall,” recalls 38-year-old Mazeda Begum.
In the quiet corners of Mujib Palli—a government shelter for landless people in the Sunamganj district—every sunrise once brought a new wave of[...]