Our Stories

Looking Bravely: The power of a simple pair of eyeglasses
Kindal Adams of our New Jersey vision program shares how the COVID-19 pandemic has opened up new opportunities to reach communities in need.
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Micro but Mighty: How Vitamin A Saves Lives [Photo Essay]
Thanks to a global community of donors, millions of children receive life-saving vitamin A every year. Click through our photo essay to learn more about this mighty micronutrient and how we are helping to improve children’s health and well-being by increasing their vitamin A intake.
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Looking Bravely: Ensuring Safe Delivery of Lifesaving Vitamin A
Learn how Helen Keller Intl is adapting our work to ensure safe delivery of vitamin A during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mothers become change agents for health in Mozambique’s Tete Province
“Model mother” volunteers are creating lasting change in Mozambique’s Tete Province, one neighbor at a time.
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Mother to mother groups offer support for pregnancy and parenting
A mother to mother support group in rural Kenya is a safe space for women to talk about pregnancy, parenting, and anything else on their minds.
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Maternity Open Day: Bringing communities together to understand maternal health
In a small Kenyan village, a day of informational entertainment ends with a tour of the new maternity ward and convinces the community of the benefits of quality maternity care.
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Better maternity care means healthier babies and happier mothers
At 7pm on July 20, sixteen year-old Hildah went to a county hospital in western Kenya complaining of abdominal pain. By 9pm, she was a new mother. Here’s how we helped.
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Hunger Report: How we are combatting malnutrition and food insecurity
As a global pandemic endangered the world’s most vulnerable people, we responded swiftly, with a science-based strategy to address the far-reaching ripple effects of COVID-19, including rising poverty and extreme hunger.
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3 Things We’re Optimistic About in 2021
2020 was a challenging, sad, and scary year, but the new decade dawned with some promising advances. Here are 3 things we’re optimistic about.
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Reaching Every Child in Mozambique with Lifesaving Vitamin A
Here’s how we are working to ensure that remote communities like Zambezi are not left out of crucial health care.
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