Keeping the Road to Success in Focus

Young boy covers his eye during vision test with medical staff and other children in classroom setting.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[...]

On World Sight Day, Let’s Recommit to Ending Trachoma

Close-up of a joyful woman smiling, wearing a pink headscarf and green clothingAcross the globe, there are 200 million people at risk of trachoma, a preventable, blinding infectious disease.  More than three million people are in need of immediate surgery to avoid blindness due to trichiasis, a manifestation of trachoma that causes[...]

ChildSight’s Work with Homeless Youth Featured by Mashable

Girl with black hoodie and glasses smiling indoors, wearing a black leather jacket.ChildSight's Work with Homeless Youth Featured by MashableImagine looking at an eye chart and not even being able to make out the giant E at the top. Then imagine you’re homeless. Do you get care? A collaboration between US Vision and the Ali Forney[...]

Helping Homeless Youth Begin Again with Clear Vision

Close-up of damaged eyeglasses with a shattered lens resting on a blue cloth.For more than 20 years, Helen Keller International’s US Vision Program has provided in-school vision screenings and free prescription glasses to children in some of the poorest communities in the United States. In 2015, with support of The New York[...]