Helen Keller Intl

If you weren't able to attend our side event at the 2025 AFS Forum, we're hosting a second session tomorrow! We hope you can join us. 💜🤍 📆Thursday, 4 September 2025 ⏰10:00-11:30 📍Investment Room - Hall A

Clear vision plays a vital role in a child’s education. 🏫 Helen Keller Intl partners with schools and community organizations across four states to provide vision screenings and prescription glasses at no cost to students or their families. 👓 By providing the right support at the right time, we can help give students the best chance at success in school and life. 🤓 Read more: https://vist.ly/45g9r

Monday motivation from our co-founder, Helen Keller, "One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar." 🪽 Helen was driven by her deep compassion for others to devote her life to helping them overcome significant obstacles to living healthy and productive lives. We're proud to continue her legacy. 💜🤍 #MondayMotivation #HelenKellerQuotes

📢 The 2025 AFS Forum starts today! 📆 Don't miss our side event, Fortifying and Cultivating Nourishing Futures, on Tuesday, September 2. Learn more about how you can engage with Helen Keller Intl at the forum. ⬇️ Shawn Baker Fatoumata Diouf Tom Van Mourik Ndèye Yaga Sy, MSc Habib Ndaw Assane Pam Mariama Mbodj DIOUF ITA SENEGAL ITA Olam Agri Maria Distribution #AFSForum2025

Meet Djeinam Toure, our Global Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research Advisor. 👋🏾 We recently spoke to Djeinam about new research, co-authored by a team from Helen Keller Intl, which aims to deepen our understanding of community health workers' roles, responsibilities, capacities, and training and support needs. 📰 Read more: https://lnkd.in/ePwZkwFg

#ICYMI Apoorva Mandavilli, writing for The New York Times, revealed how malnourished children have lost access to lifesaving treatments because of US funding cuts. 🍽️ Across the countries we serve, 21 million people – many of them young children – are now at increased risk of malnutrition due to reductions in US government funding. 💔 Read more: https://lnkd.in/eQz6Gb-R

Read this brilliant reporting by Trisha Mukherjee in More to Her Story from her trip to 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿, underscoring the transformational role of 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 (https://lnkd.in/eBRvFXcR). “𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠,” “𝙄 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙚'𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙨,” Helen Keller Intl, Helen Keller Europe, Community Health Impact Coalition, Exemplars in Global Health, Last Mile Health, Gates Foundation Africa, GiveWell, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Stronger Foundations for Nutrition, PMNCH, Paris Peace Forum, Micronutrient Forum, The World Bank Group, UNICEF, World Health Organization, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network, CORE Group, OFFICE NATIONAL DE NUTRITION

Helen Keller Intl staff are taking part in IUNS-ICN 2025 in Paris, France, this week, which brings together experts in nutrition from across the globe. 🌍 Staff will showcase Helen Keller's work and research related to child health and nutrition, multiple micronutrient supplements, maternal health, vitamin A, and more. 🎤 Read on to learn how you can engage with us during this exciting event. 💜🤍 Sarah Bouchie Shawn Baker Rolf Klemm Dan Fiedler David Doledec Jen Burns Akriti Singh, PhD Hou Kroeun Dissieka Romance Mohamed Lamine FOFANA Mai-Anh Hoang Vannary Hun Umu Hawa Jalloh Donya M. Melissa Baker, PhD Sasmita Poudel, DrPH, MPH Eric Nobela Micronutrient Forum Vitamin Angels Stronger Foundations for Nutrition #ICN2025 #GlobalNutrition #NutritionScience

In Madagascar, 41% of children are deficient in vitamin A. 🍽️ With support from GiveWell, our first vitamin A campaign in the country last year reached 2.9 million children under 5 with this critical micronutrient. 💊 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dz9R5356 Fundación Ayuda Efectiva Effektiv Spenden Giving Multiplier Giving What We Can Gi Effektivt #VitaminA #EffectiveAltruism

Providing breastfeeding support benefits both moms and babies. 🤱🏽 In Cambodia, Moul Saren was able to continue breastfeeding after returning to work thanks to a lactation room her employer established in partnership with Helen Keller Intl. 💜🤍 Read more: https://vist.ly/44935