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Nicholas Kristof Highlights Helen Keller International

This op-ed originally appeared in the Sunday Review Section of the April 5, 2015 edition of The New York Times. The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay Matt Wage was a brilliant, earnest student at Princeton University, a star of the classroom and a deep thinker about his own ethical obligations to the world. His […]

Preventing Blindness, Saving Lives

As part of our 100th Anniversary Celebration, Helen Keller International hosted an informative and insightful presentation on the history and impact of Vitamin A Supplementation as an important blindness and malnutrition intervention, as well as some insight on the causes, treatment and prevention of other blinding conditions that continue to plague the developing world. The […]

Helen Keller International Wins BBVA Award

Helen Keller International has been selected to receive the 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Development Cooperation for its work in improving nutrition with agricultural programs that help families and villages to raise their own nutritious foods. The announcement was made on Tuesday, February 25, 2015, at a press conference at the BBVA […]

From Darkness and Despair to a Life of Hope

Dhanalata Chakma is a mother of three girls in central the Chittagong Hills Tracts in Bangladesh. This region is home to ethnic and religious minorities that are among the most disenfranchised in the country. Most do not own land and have limited access to ethnic majority-controlled markets, agricultural training, and health services. When we met […]

Helen Keller International Briefing: Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone

As part of it’s ongoing Briefing Series, Helen Keller International and NewsCred hosted an evening of important information and insight about the impact the devistating Ebola epidemic will have on Sierra Leone’s already fragile health care system in the years to come. Emily Toubali, Helen Keller International’s Senior Program Manager for Neglected Tropical Diseases, joined remotely by Fatmata Sesay, […]

Children smiling while trying on new eyeglasses

Helen Keller Intl Eyeglass Dispensing Day

This video was produced by graduate students of Pace University’s Digital Video Field Production class and published on Hooplaha.com. The course assignment was to create a video featuring their favorite charity and things that make them happy. This group of students decided to make a video for Helen Keller International’s U.S. Vision program because they […]

The Two Sides of Borrowing Money by Low-income Families

According to US censor data, approximately half of the American population live in poverty – or is part of a low-income household. This means most families are struggling to meet their financial needs, let alone put food on the table. It comes as no surprise why many families have to resort to borrowing funds to […]

Education Access for Blind Children In Indonesia

Rachel was a very young infant when her parents left her at the doorstep of Yayasan Sinar Kasih, a children’s charity in West Java, Indonesia. She suffered from pediatric cataract, a condition rare in developed countries but all too common in the developing world, where oxygen is not regulated as well for premature infants in incubators. […]

Healthy Food and Opportunity in Cambodia

For more than 17 years, Helen Keller International has taught women in Cambodia to grow nutritious fruits and vegetables—many of them rich in sight- and life-saving vitamin A—for their families.

Our Sweet Potato Solution

Vitamin A is essential for children under five to support growth during critical development phases, as well as support young immune systems to fight common illnesses like diarrhea and measles.

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