Meet our visionaries

Young boy with glasses smiling at camera in a bright room. Children sitting in background on chairs.We'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[...]

World Sight Day 2018

Two young girls wearing glasses closely looking at a round mirror in a large auditorium setting.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

Smiling young girl in bright jacket holding freshly picked tomatoes in a lush garden.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

Close-up of an elderly woman smilingHalimata 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

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[...]