A Milestone in Vision Care

On February 4, Helen Keller International delivered its two millionth free U.S. vision screening at an after-school program run by our long-time partner Children’s Aid in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York[...]

2018 Year in Review

We welcome 2019 and all the opportunities it brings to strengthen our impact and accelerate our progress toward improving the health of the world’s most vulnerable[...]

Meet our visionaries

Young boy wearing glassesWe'd like to introduce you to some of the amazing VISIONARIES who are part of our mission to help people see new possibilities and realize their[...]

In the Spirit of Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving is a call to reflect on gratitude and community. Here at Helen Keller International, we are ever grateful for the legacy and example of our[...]

World Sight Day 2018

Recognizing the unmet needs for vision care among vulnerable, at-risk youth in the U.S., we are expanding our 24-year-old U.S. Vision program to reach children in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, starting in Saint[...]

Ensuring Clear Vision for Children in Vietnam

Ngoc couldn’t see clearly. When the eighth grader tried to read the board in class, everything was blurry. And even when her teacher let her sit up front, Ngoc struggled because of her poor[...]

Relieving the Pain of Trachoma

Halimata is 75 years old and was blinded many years ago by a bacterial eye infection called trachoma. Thanks to a village-based surgery campaign, Halimata was recovering from surgery on both of her[...]

Keeping the Road to Success in Focus

The solution to helping students see clearly is simple: properly prescribed glasses. But as the Helen Keller team in Vietnam will tell you, the road to success is often blurry. In rural Vietnam, one in five children don’t know that the blurry world they see[...]