One in seven people worldwide is living with vision loss because they lack access to care. 👀 But a staggering 90% of vision loss is avoidable. 🤓 Last year, we supported 22.7 million people around the world with essential vision care to ensure clear vision and prevent blindness. 💜🤍

What are multiple micronutrient supplements? 🤔 They provide 15 essential vitamins and minerals to support healthy pregnancies. 🤰🏽 We're expanding access to help improve the health of moms and babies. 💜🤍

What is vitamin A? 🤔 This essential micronutrient helps protect children's vision, strengthen their immune systems, and can reduce child mortality by up to 25%. 💪 And it only costs about $1 a dose. 💵 Last year we distributed more than 94.4 million vitamin A capsules to children under five. 💊

Breastfeeding has incredible benefits for society, including: 🤱🏽Reduced child & maternal mortality 📈Stronger economies 🏥Lower healthcare costs We provide counseling, education & support to moms to help more women breastfeed for longer. 💜🤍 #WBW2026 @unicef.org @who.int

August is National Eye Exam Month. 👀 When was the last time you had your eyes examined? 🔍 Last year, we screened over 128,000 children and adults worldwide for vision impairment and provided glasses to more than 33,500 people.  🤓

The 1st 1,000 days are critical for growth & development. 🧒🏽 Luckily, 5 proven solutions can prevent malnutrition: 1️⃣ Prenatal vitamins🤰🏽 2️⃣ Support breastfeeding🤱🏽 3️⃣ Vitamin A 💊 4️⃣ Enrich & protect children's diets 🍠 5️⃣ Diagnose & treat malnutrition. 👩🏽‍⚕️ @1000Days

The 1st 1,000 days are critical for growth & development. 🧒🏽 Luckily, 5 proven solutions can prevent malnutrition: 1️⃣ Prenatal vitamins🤰🏽 2️⃣ Support breastfeeding🤱🏽 3️⃣ Vitamin A 💊 4️⃣ Enrich & protect children's diets 🍠 5️⃣ Diagnose & treat malnutrition. 👩🏽‍⚕️

Not breastfeeding costs the world US$339 billion a year. 🤱🏽 This World Breastfeeding Week, join us to learn about new evidence that makes the case for investment and what works to scale up support. 📝 🗓 4 & 5 Aug 2026 vist.ly/5d56c #WBW2026

1 in 5 pregnant women in the Philippines is at risk of malnutrition. 🍽️ For Suzette, multiple micronutrient supplements containing 15 essential vitamins & minerals helped support good nutrition during her last pregnancy. 🤰🏽 vist.ly/5cud6

Prenatal Vitamins Support Healthier Pregnancies for Moms and Babies

Many women and children in the Philippines suffer from a deficiency of at least vital one micronutrient. Helen Keller Intl, as part of the Transforming Lives Through Nutrition consortium, is providing access to new, comprehensive prenatal vitamins for pregnant women.

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One in seven people worldwide is living with vision loss because they lack access to care. 👀 But a staggering 90% of vision loss is avoidable. 🤓 Last year, we supported 22.7 million people around the world with essential vision care to ensure clear vision and prevent blindness. 💜🤍

What is vitamin A? 🤔 This essential micronutrient helps protect children's vision, strengthen their immune systems, and can reduce child mortality by up to 25%. 💪 And it only costs about $1 a dose. 💵 Last year we distributed more than 94.4 million vitamin A capsules to children under five. 💊

Cataracts made it hard for Florence to walk around her town in Sierra Leone & care for her grandchild. 👀 Then she heard about a free cataract surgery camp, hosted by Helen Keller Intl & Cure Blindness Project. 🏥 After surgery, she can see clearly & keep up with her grandchild again. 💜🤍

The 1st 1,000 days are critical for growth & development. 🧒🏽 Luckily, 5 proven solutions can prevent malnutrition: 1️⃣ Prenatal vitamins🤰🏽 2️⃣ Support breastfeeding🤱🏽 3️⃣ Vitamin A 💊 4️⃣ Enrich & protect children's diets 🍠 5️⃣ Diagnose & treat malnutrition. 👩🏽‍⚕️

What are multiple micronutrient supplements? 🤔 They provide 15 essential vitamins and minerals to support healthy pregnancies. 🤰🏽 We're expanding access to help improve the health of moms and babies. 💜🤍

A new paper from researchers at Helen Keller Intl examines the expansion of multiple micronutrient supplements in Nepal, including the requirements for successful scale-up and the persistent barriers to adoption. 💊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Feasibility and Readiness for Scaling‐Up Multiple Micronutrient Supplements in Nepal: A Qualitative Study Using the Expandnet Scaling‐Up Framework

Micronutrient deficiencies in pregnancy remain a critical public health issue in Nepal, where iron–folic acid (IFA) supplementation alone has not fully addressed maternal and neonatal risks. Multiple...

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At 86, Noé is still dedicated to improving children's health in his community. 🏘️ For over 20 years, he's helped distribute vitamin A to children in Cameroon. 💊 "Community health requires us to think of others before ourselves,” he says. 💜🤍 vist.ly/5c7ik

Bringing Good Health to the Next Generation in Cameroon with Vitamin A

Noé is 86 years old, but that doesn’t stop him from working day and night to protect the health of children in his community. Under his leadership, the local health committee has worked with Helen Keller Intl and the government of Cameroon to help all eligible children receive vitamin A supplements, at no cost to their families."Community health requires us to think of others before ourselves,” Noé shares.

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The new 2026 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report shows that we are making progress against hunger, but these gains are fragile and uneven. 📊 We're working to expand access to safe, nutritious & fortified foods so every person can live a healthy life filled with potential. 💜🤍

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The latest #SOFI2026 report shows global hunger declined for a third consecutive year — proof that progress is possible. ⚠️But conflict, weather extremes, and reductions in funding threaten to undermine progress. 🔗Get the report: https://ow.ly/QNoP50ZqFcv

Today, Jummai has a thriving business. 🌾 But life wasn't always so predictable. She struggled to support her family with her previous business. 😔 Training on entrepreneurship & home gardening helped her build the skills to start again. 💜🤍 @churchofjesuschrist.social vist.ly/5bxak

From Uncertainty to Predictability: How a Small Business Owner Learned to Thrive Again

Ongoing violence, climate crises, the rising cost of food, and funding cuts for global aid have put 35 million people living in Nigeria. Helen Keller Intl's program equips women with the skills, tools, and financial support they need to thrive.

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One in seven people worldwide is living with vision loss because they lack access to care. 👀 But a staggering 90% of vision loss is avoidable. 🤓 Last year, we supported 22.7 million people around the world with essential vision care to ensure clear vision and prevent blindness. 💜🤍

"We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough," Helen Keller once said. 💪 Helen inspires us to continue striving toward our vision of a world where every person can live a healthy life filled with potential. 💜🤍

What is vitamin A? 🤔 This essential micronutrient helps protect children's vision, strengthen their immune systems, and can reduce child mortality by up to 25%. 💪 And it only costs about $1 a dose. 💵 Last year we distributed more than 94.4 million vitamin A capsules to children under five. 💊

The 1st 1,000 days are critical for growth & development. 🧒🏽 Luckily, 5 proven solutions can prevent malnutrition: 1️⃣ Prenatal vitamins🤰🏽 2️⃣ Support breastfeeding🤱🏽 3️⃣ Vitamin A 💊 4️⃣ Enrich & protect children's diets 🍠 5️⃣ Diagnose & treat malnutrition. 👩🏽‍⚕️

Today, Jummai has a thriving small business. 🌾 But life wasn't always so predictable. She had struggled to support her family with her previous business. 😔 Participating in trainings on entrepreneurship & home gardening helped her build the skills to start again. 💜🤍 vist.ly/5b9zp

From Uncertainty to Predictability: How a Small Business Owner Learned to Thrive Again

Ongoing violence, climate crises, the rising cost of food, and funding cuts for global aid have put 35 million people living in Nigeria. Helen Keller Intl's program equips women with the skills, tools, and financial support they need to thrive.

helenkellerintl.org

What is vitamin A? 🤔 This essential micronutrient helps protect children's vision, strengthen their immune systems, and can reduce child mortality by up to 25%. 💪 And it only costs about $1 a dose. 💵 Last year we distributed more than 94.4 million vitamin A capsules to children under five. 💊

One in seven people worldwide is living with vision loss because they lack access to care. 👀 But a staggering 90% of vision loss is avoidable. 🤓 Last year, we supported 22.7 million people around the world with essential vision care to ensure clear vision and prevent blindness. 💜🤍

Lymphatic filariasis used to be a fact of life in Burkina Faso. 🦟 Today, young people learn about it in school instead of experiencing it firsthand. 🏫 This incredible progress is now at risk due to funding cuts, but we can prevent #NTDs from resurging. 💜🤍 vist.ly/5ag9h

Making Lymphatic Filariasis a Thing of the Past

Learn how lymphatic filariasis has faded into memory for many in Burkina Faso, and how we can keep it from resurging with mass drug administration.

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#ICYMI The incredible progress Nepal has made against child malnutrition is now at risk because of funding cuts. 🍽️ @katlay.bsky.social reports for @theguardian.com that a new survey found rates of child malnutrition have increased across Nepal. 📰 vist.ly/5a7dw

The Guardian: Decades of Progress Reducing Child Malnutrition in Nepal Under Threat

Despite significant challenges, Nepal has steadily reduced the number of children suffering from acute malnutrition in recent years. Yet, new data from a nationwide survey of children under five reveals that those hard-won gains are now under threat.

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July is #DisabilityPrideMonth! 🧏 During her life, #HelenKeller overcame tremendous obstacles to her health and well-being – and helped millions of others to do the same. 💜🤍

Nearly 1/2 of all childhood deaths are linked to malnutrition. 🍽️ But we know how to end hunger & malnutrition. 💡 We're proud to join 30+ partners at #HSC26 in calling for catalyzing efforts to end child malnutrition by 2030 through large-scale food fortification. 🤝 hsc.link/cta1000days26 #HSC26

Helen Keller once said, "I believe that the welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.” 💜🤍 You can join our community & help continue Helen's legacy by becoming a donor today. 🎁 Through midnight, all new donor gifts are matched, meaning your gift goes further. ✨ vist.ly/59iyn