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📢 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

  Helen Keller Intl is proud to be a partner of the 2025 AFS Forum, August 31-September 5 in Dakar, Senegal. 🌾   Please join us for the following events and sessions during the forum as we focus on food systems transformation to support good nutrition. We look forward to seeing you in Dakar! 💜🤍   💜 𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐡 August 31-September 4 | Exhibition Hall   💜 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 September 2 | 16:30-18:00 GMT Featuring speaker Shawn Baker   💜 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 September 2 | 18:00-19:30 GMT | Oval Room Organized by Helen Keller Intl with partners ITA SENEGAL ITA, Olam Agri, and Maria Distribution, this side event will explore how nutrition-focused innovations, standards, and policies can transform African food systems to better serve women and young children.   Featuring speakers Shawn Baker, Tom Van Mourik, Ndèye Yaga Sy, MSc, Ndeye Fatou Ndiaye, Habib Ndaw, Assane Pam, and Mariama Mbodj DIOUF.   💜 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 September 4 | 12:00-13:30 GMT Featuring speaker Fatoumata Diouf #AFSForum2025 #OurFoodOurFuture

Please join a group of esteemed colleagues from Helen Keller Intl, The Micronutrient Forum, WFP, UNICEF and WHO at the IUNS-ICN conference session sponsored by WHO on Advancing complementary feeding to tackle all forms of childhood malnutrition: Intervention guidance and evidence . You'll gain access to a repository of tools and evidence on what works to improve complementary feeding. This event will bring together members of the WHO and UNICEF-led Global Complementary Feeding Collective. Helen Keller Intl, Linda Shaker Berbari, PhD, Saskia de Pee, Sorrel Namaste, DrPH, MHS,Laurence Grummer-Strawn, Jeanette McCulloch, Eleonora Bassetti

📰 A new story from Apoorva Mandavilli for The New York Times highlights how US funding cuts have disrupted the global supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food, creating devastating consequences for malnourished children worldwide. 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. 🍽️ “We have seen the mortality rates in the hospitals increasing by the day,” says Nigeria Country Director Aliyu Mohammed. “This is the ugly situation that we are facing because of this funding cut.” 💔   Read more: https://lnkd.in/eQz6Gb-R Sarah Bouchie Shawn Baker Rolf Klemm Fatoumata Diouf Volkan Cakir Jennifer Vanyur Sara Hutchinson Helen Keller Europe UNICEF Micronutrient Forum Stronger Foundations for Nutrition Eleanor Crook Foundation The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement