This blog post by Jennifer Nielsen was originally published on Seed to Sight, Helen Keller International’s blog, for Breastfeeding Awareness Month. My job as HKI’s senior program manager for nutrition and health is, in some ways, not unlike that of advertising executive. I sell a product. In my case, the product is not fancy shoes
Addis Ababa University. Photo credit: http://placepics.triposo.com This blog post was written by David J. Olson, Global Development Communicator and Advocate for Olson Global Communications. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The most dramatic demographic divergence in Ethiopia in recent years has been an explosion in the number of young adults enrolled in post-secondary education. Ten years ago,
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As fall begins to unfold in all its chilly glory, we are all going to be seeking some hearty and nutritious food to get us through the cold nights – and nothing fits that bill better than the star of our campaign to end child malnutrition, the humble sweet potato. Photo caption: Sweet potato pancakes
Today is World Polio Day, a day to celebrate the amazing progress we’ve made in the fight to eliminate polio (we’re at 99 percent!), rally to get rid of that 1 percent, and honor those who have died from polio or are living with the disease. Our NGO partners are doing some pretty incredible things
Today is World Polio Day, and I would bet most Americans thinking about polio have a hazy recollection of a long-dead US president in a wheelchair, or else they have images of a more recent portrayal of a polio survivor such as the one in the new movie, The Sessions. But for survivors like me,
Photo credit: http://www.brecorder.com/ Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old student activist from Pakistan who was brutally shot by the Taliban on October 9, awoke from her coma last week. Doctors say that she has regained consciousness, but will need a significant period of rest and recuperation. She wakes up from her coma to a world very different
Suzanne Sterling, founder of Off the Matt, Into the World, uses the power of yoga to inspire conscious, sustainable activism and ignite grassroots social change. The practice of yoga is, for many people, a life-altering journey of change. It is a practice that asks us to experience and literally bring life to the un-investigated parts
David Bryden, Stop TB Advocacy Officer at RESULTS, shares new tuberculosis findings. “It would be a fatal mistake to ignore tuberculosis,” declared Dr. Mario Raviglione, Director of the WHO’s Stop TB Department, at a press conference yesterday in Washington, D.C., where he and a panel of experts released a new report on the state of
Another great blog post for World Sight Day by Klaus Kraemer and Howard Schiffer World Sight Day is a time to reflect back on the tremendous progress to date in addressing vitamin A deficiency, and to call on the global community to prioritize vitamin A supplementation so we can continue to prevent blindness and save
Big thanks to Jennifer Klopp, vice president of development and communications at Helen Keller International for sharing this piece with ONE for World Sight Day. Today is World Sight Day which is celebrated every year on the second Thursday in October to raise awareness about avoidable blindness and visual impairment. I’ve worn glasses since I
Earlier this year, a healthy little Bangladeshi girl named Morsheda celebrated her fifth birthday surrounded by her family and friends. The candles on her cake were a symbol not only of her personal celebration but also of the hope we can all have that malnutrition can be beat. Morsheda and her birthday are proof that
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