Progress in the fight to end hunger by 2030 remains stalled according to the 2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report. 🛑 Released this week by FAO, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), World Food Programme, World Health Organization, and UNICEF, the report finds that 733 million people, or 1 in 11, faced hunger in 2023. 🌾 While there has been some progress toward ending malnutrition, the world is still not on track to reach any of the 7 global nutrition targets by 2030. 😔 The report emphasizes the need to increase financing and cooperation for food security and nutrition. 🤝 In the lead up to the 2025 Nutrition for Growth Summit, we're working with our partners to advocate for increased support for critical investments to combat global hunger and malnutrition. 💜🤍 Read more: https://vist.ly/3fxg7 #SOFI2024 #SDG2 #ZeroHunger #FoodSecurity #malnutrition #hunger #nutrition #N4G2025 #NutritionForGrowth
Helen Keller Intl
Non-profit Organizations
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Vision: A world where no one is deprived of the opportunity to live a healthy life – and reach their true potential.
About us
Helen Keller, our co-founder, envisioned a world without barriers to human potential. Guided by her fierce optimism, Helen Keller Intl has been working on the front lines of health and well-being for more than 100 years. We deliver life-changing health care to vulnerable families in places where the need is great, but access is limited. Our proven, science-based programs empower people to create opportunities in their own lives. Since we were founded in 1915, our work has evolved from providing assistance to soldiers blinded during their service in World War I. Today, our programs prioritize preventing and treating vision loss and blindness—as well as addressing major global health problems such as malnutrition and neglected diseases that threaten sight, productivity, and well-being. In the U.S., Africa, and Asia, Helen Keller International’s proven, science-based programs empower people to create opportunities in their own lives and build lasting change. We build the capacity of local government, non-profit and private sector systems and infrastructure, and promote the development of sustained, large scale programs that deliver effective solutions to preventable vision loss and malnutrition. Guided by Helen’s vision and optimism, we believe it is possible to eliminate preventable vision loss, malnutrition, and neglected tropical diseases and improve the well-being of millions of children and vulnerable families.
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https://helenkellerintl.org/
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- 501-1,000 employees
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- Global health, Blindness prevention, Neglected tropical diseases, Eye health, and Malnutrition
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📢 We are thrilled to launch the next phase of our work improving health and nutrition for women and children in Nepal through USAID Integrated Nutrition! Helen Keller Intl will lead a consortium of partners to tackle the causes of malnutrition in underserved and marginalized communities across 48 districts of the country over five years. 🥗 In close collaboration with the Government of Nepal we will also strengthen health, food, education, and other systems to support better health and nutrition. 🏥 The USAID Integrated Nutrition consortium brings together partners with a diverse range of expertise to drive positive change including FHI 360; The Center for Environmental and Agricultural Policy Research, Extension and Development (CEAPRED); Environment and Public Health Organization; the Nepali Technical Assistance Group; and Kaboom Social Impact. 🤝 The $72 million award builds on the foundation established by the Suaahara Good Nutrition Program, in which Helen Keller partnered with funder USAID and the Government of Nepal to enhance the nutrition, wellbeing, and resilience of 2.2 million households. 💜🤍 USAID Integrated Nutrition is made possible by the generous support of the American people through USAID. #HelenKeller #Nepal #GlobalHealth #nutrition #malnutrition
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As Paris prepares to open the 2024 Olympics, we look ahead to another global moment France will soon host: The Nutrition for Growth Summit 🌍 "This Summit comes at a critical juncture – we can either accept backsliding or slowing of progress, or we can catalyze efforts and accelerate action on the promises of good nutrition," writes Chief Program Officer Shawn Baker. 📈 Helen Keller Intl is proud to play a critical role in the 2025 Nutrition for Growth Summit. With Helen Keller Europe, we are working with partners to support the government of France as they shape their Summit plans and priorities. 🤝 We are also advocating for the US and other countries to build on their previous commitments to support critical investments to combat global hunger and malnutrition. 💜🤍 Read more: https://lnkd.in/ejFc_ThG #N4G2025 #NutritionForGrowth #Olympics #Paris2024 Brieuc PONT Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Paris Peace Forum USAID Special Envoy for Global Food Security Dr. Cary Fowler Kirk Humanitarian Micronutrient Forum
The Road to Nutrition for Growth
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The first 1,000 days from pregnancy to age 2 are critical to setting the nutritional foundation for children's future health. 👶🏿 Expanding access to multiple micronutrient supplements - or prenatal vitamins - can help support good health and nutrition for both moms and babies. 💜🤍 Read more: https://vist.ly/3fdva #ICYMI #MMS #HelenKeller#PrenatalVitamins #MaternalHealth #nutrition
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President and CEO Sarah Bouchie speaks to Alberto Lidji on The Do One Better Knowledge Hub and Podcast about how Helen Keller Intl is delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound nutrition and clear vision to help millions of people create lasting change in their own lives. 💜🤍
Strategic Advisor • Do One Better • Ex-Global CEO @ Novak Djokovic Foundation • Visiting Professor @ Strathclyde Business School, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship
Sarah Bouchie, CEO at Helen Keller Intl, joins us on The Do One Better Knowledge Hub and Podcast to talk about tackling #blindness and #malnutrition and improving global #health. Listen now https://lnkd.in/eSiwTpS9
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✔ Globally 1.2 billion women of reproductive age and 372 million young children suffer deficiency in at least one essential nutrient. ✔ In April this year 245 practitioners of large-scale food fortification gathered in Cape Town, South Africa and issued this Manifesto for Accelerated Action: https://lnkd.in/euU7a9GH Date: 16 July 2024 Time: ✔ Join us on Tuesday, July 16th at 14:00-15:30 CET (https://lnkd.in/gBiNCf_t) to learn from exciting country experiences in building advocacy alliances to accelerate action. ✔ Helen Keller Intl, Helen Keller Europe, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Global Fortification Data Exchange, Micronutrient Forum, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, TechnoServe
🔔 Webinar 🔔 Last year, the World Health Assembly resolved unanimously to accelerate national and global efforts to prevent micronutrient deficiencies through food fortification, but national and regional advocacy is needed to ensure that the resolution is implemented. This year brings another opportunity to push for accelerated progress to make fortified foods available to all. A diverse coalition of #fortification champions, committed to support and push duty bearers simultaneously, can affect significant change if their advocacy is persistent. Next week, join us for a discussion about the experience of advocacy coalitions in Bangladesh, Nigeria, Uganda and Ethiopia In this #webinar, we will learn from the experience of advocacy coalitions in Bangladesh, Nigeria, Uganda and Ethiopia. Moderated by Shawn Baker, Chief Program Officer of Helen Keller International. Date: 16 July 2024 Time: 14:00-15:30 CET Sign up: https://lnkd.in/gBiNCf_t
Fortifying Nations: Forging New Alliances for Food Fortification
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Meet Rose Fenged! 👋🏾 She's using her community leadership role to help fight malnutrition, especially among young children. 👶🏾 Through a partnership with Helen Keller Intl and UNICEF, Rose has helped expand access to health and nutrition services and healthy local foods. 🥗 Read more: https://vist.ly/3dn2f #nutrition #malnutrition #Cameroon
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When Patrice Messolo was a boy, his grandfather and uncle became very sick with what he would later learn was onchocerciasis. 🦠 Seeing what happened to his grandfather and uncle inspired Patrice to become a community drug distributor to help keep his community healthy. 💊 Read more: https://vist.ly/3dbjc #NTDs #BeatNTDs #onchocerciasis
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#ICYMI Dr. Alfred Sommer shared how researchers working with Helen Keller Intl in the 1970s discovered the crucial role vitamin A plays in strengthening children's immune systems. 💊 Since then, vitamin A supplements have helped save the lives of millions of children around the world. 💜🤍 Watch the video: https://vist.ly/3cwhn #VitaminA #EffectiveAltruism #HelenKeller #GlobalHealth
Speaking Technically: Dr. Al Sommer on the Surprising Discovery of Vitamin A
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July is Disability Pride Month! 🧏 During her life, Helen Keller overcame tremendous obstacles to her health and wellbeing – and helped millions of others to do the same. 💜🤍 #HelenKeller #HelenKellerQuotes #DisabilityPride
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