Farming Expert Helps Displaced Nigerian Women Cultivate Food Security and Livelihoods
Farming Expert Helps Displaced Nigerian Women Cultivate Food Security and LivelihoodsRebecca Clement has been cultivating nutritious fruits and vegetables since she was a child. Growing up in a family of farmers in Garta, Nigeria, a small village in Adamawa state near the border with Cameroon, Rebecca began learning how to prepare soil for planting, to […]
Saving Sight and Lives with Micro but Mighty Vitamin A
Saving Sight and Lives with Micro but Mighty Vitamin AVitamin A is a micronutrient that is critical to children’s growing bodies and brains. A single capsule of vitamin A – at a little more than $1 each – given to children twice a year until their fifth birthday can literally save their sight and lives. […]
Improving Vision Care in Cameroon
Improving Vision Care in CameroonMore than 26 million children and adults in Africa are living with some form of visual impairment. As many as 15 percent of these experience vision loss because of common refractive errors, such as near-sightedness or astigmatism, which can be corrected with a simple pair of eyeglasses. Although a majority of […]
Building Upon Our Legacy of Health, Nutrition, and Vision
Building Upon Our Legacy of Health, Nutrition, and VisionOver the past several decades, Helen Keller Intl has continued to expand our ability to help people around the world create lasting change in their own lives. Today, we reach more than 70 million children and family members across 20 countries with the essential building blocks of […]
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 […]
How Partnership Led to Eliminating an Endemic Blinding Disease in Mali
How Partnership Led to Eliminating an Endemic Blinding Disease in MaliEarlier this year, the World Health Organization announced Mali as the 17th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem. This is a milestone more than two decades in the making. Trachoma was once pervasive in nearly every region of the country, putting nearly […]
Preventing Vision Loss from Diabetic Retinopathy in Bangladesh
Preventing Vision Loss from Diabetic Retinopathy in BangladeshNasima Khatun’s vision had been deteriorating for years. It had gotten so bad she was unable to recognize the faces of people she knew from a distance. Then one morning, the vision in her right eye suddenly became obscured by what looked like a red cloud. The 41-year-old […]
Looking Bravely: Eliminating Blinding Trachoma in Mali
Looking Bravely: Eliminating Blinding Trachoma in MaliWe recently spoke with Benoit Dembélé who is our Regional Technical Advisor for Neglected Tropical Diseases in West Africa. Benoit helps Helen Keller Intl’s teams across Africa ensure quality treatment to prevent and eliminate neglected tropical diseases. Most recently, Benoit and his team worked alongside the Malian government and […]
Cultivating Economic Security through Farming in Nepal
Cultivating Economic Security through Farming in NepalIn Nepal’s remote, mountainous Taplejung district, Pemba Doma Sherpa harvests vegetables from her fields on a steep hillside. She sells her produce at the local market twice a week, providing enough money to support her family and send her two daughters to private school. However, Pemba’s finances weren’t always […]
Building Brighter Futures by Saving Sight
Building Brighter Futures by Saving SightBy the time she was six years old, Treasure Winner Mafau Azemafack’s family had already fled violence three times. Originally from Fontem in Cameroon’s South West region, Treasure Winner, her parents, and three siblings eventually settled on Dschang, in the country’s West region. During this time, Treasure Winner began to […]
