Nurturing Minds and Bodies in Sierra Leone

Three smiling children enjoy orange flesh sweet potatoes77% of Sierra Leoneans lack reliable access to affordable, nutritious food, according to the World Food Programme. Last year, more than 2,600 farmers like Aunty Sento in Sierra Leone have received climate-smart training and tools to cultivate crops like[...]

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[...]