2023 Year in Review: Forces for Good [Photo Essay]
2023 Year in Review: Forces for Good [Photo Essay]Every day, members of the Helen Keller Intl community are choosing to be forces for good. Community health heroes, entrepreneurs, parents, youth, and Helen Keller staff work tirelessly to help improve health, nutrition, and vision for people in their communities, countries, and around the world. We’re highlighting […]
Sweet Potatoes: Nutrition, Economic Security, and Inspiration
Sweet Potatoes: Nutrition, Economic Security, and InspirationIn her village in west central Burkina Faso, 34-year-old Kacoara Dahourou, a mother of four, knows firsthand the hardships of financial insecurity and hunger. Growing nutritious foods in a region that receives little rain – and finding affordable foods close to home – has long been a challenge for her. She […]
How Baking Bread is Changing Lives: The Success of Sweet Potatoes
How Baking Bread is Changing Lives: The Success of Sweet PotatoesFive years ago, a difficult economic situation forced Thaimu Banugura to leave his hometown, Jaiama Nimikoro Kono, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Despite having completed his West African Certificate Exams to graduate from secondary school, Thaimu struggled to find work in his new […]
Empowering Mothers: Transforming Nutrition in Rural Communities in Sierra Leone
Empowering Mothers: Transforming Nutrition in Rural Communities in Sierra LeoneIn rural communities across Sierra Leone, limited access to nutritious and diverse food has been a constant concern. 33-year-old Mariama Koroma knows this reality all too well. A farmer and single mother of three children, Mariama lives in Rogbere village in Tonkolili, Sierra Leone’s northern province. […]
Helen Keller’s Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potatoes Lead Nutrition in Nepal
Helen Keller’s Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potatoes Lead Nutrition in Nepal 52-year-old Bishwo Nepal and his wife Gayatri Nepal remember almost losing their whole harvest the first year they farmed. Only one crop survived: orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. Bishwo was able to sell his sweet potato harvest earning enough money to save the family farm and perhaps their livelihood. […]
Koinadugu Women Fight Hidden Hunger through Farming
Koinadugu Women Fight Hidden Hunger through FarmingOn a frosty Sunday morning, a group of farmers wearing brightly colored African waist scarves, called lappas, gather together in front of Haja Conteh’s house in the Koinadugu district of Sierra Leone. The all-women farmers group, called “Denkola Two Women in Agriculture,” are planning their harvest of orange-fleshed sweet […]
