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[...]
Earlier 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,[...]
Nasima 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.[...]
We 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.[...]
In 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[...]
By 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 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[...]
It’s a special service day in Gbondapi town, Sierra Leone, and that means the long wooden benches in the foyer of the health center are filled exclusively with mothers and their young[...]
Since she began growing it a few years ago, Massah Abdulai hasn’t stopped singing the praises of the orange-fleshed sweet potato. “Our children are getting sick less[...]
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[...] 
Earlier 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,[...] 
Nasima 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.[...] 
We 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.[...] 
In 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[...] 
By 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 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[...] 
It’s a special service day in Gbondapi town, Sierra Leone, and that means the long wooden benches in the foyer of the health center are filled exclusively with mothers and their young[...] 
In Sierra Leone, mosquitos are much more than a nuisance – they also transmit harmful diseases like lymphatic[...] 
Since she began growing it a few years ago, Massah Abdulai hasn’t stopped singing the praises of the orange-fleshed sweet potato. “Our children are getting sick less[...]