Tonya Suer, New York Vision Program Manager, discusses how “stay-at-home” measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 will affect children’s ability not only to see, but also to[...]
For the past three years, community health volunteer, Moriame Sidibé, has served her community by going door to door to administer lifesaving vitamin A supplementation to children during biyearly campaigns. Now, the threat of Covid-19 has dramatically[...]
Mass door-to-door health campaigns could inadvertently spread COVID-19 infections and put children and health workers at risk. Helen Keller Intl and partners have issued guidance to governments for safe delivery of vitamin A supplementation programs during[...]
Today, Helen Keller International and Vision To Learn presented free glasses to more than 110 K to 8th grade Jersey City students at Frank R. Conwell Middle[...]
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[...]
Helen Keller International is proud to announce that we have been rated a “top charity” by GiveWell for the second year in a row for our vitamin A supplementation[...]
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[...]