Helping Mothers Breastfeed Improves Health and Saves Lives

Mother holds newborn at lactation consultant officeUNICEF 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[...]

Filling the Gap in Nigeria’s Child Nutrition Crisis

Mother holds her young child, surrounded by her husband and three other childrenInemesit 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[...]

The Health Worker Determined to Reach Every Child with Vitamin A

Woman in black vest standing outdoors“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[...]