Socially responsible retailer TOMS is best known for shoes, but their “One for One” philosophy also extends to glasses. For every pair of sunglasses purchased, money is donated to one of their Sight Giving Partners to restore the sight of a person in[...]
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[...]
Helen Keller International, a leading global nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting the causes and consequences of preventable blindness and malnutrition, celebrated a year of transformational work at the 2016 Spirit of Helen Keller Gala on Monday, May[...]
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[...]
US Vision Program Featured in New York Times "Well" BlogNew York Times personal health columnist Jane Brody features Helen Keller International’s US Vision Program in her latest “Well” blog. Put glasses on children who can’t[...]
World Sight Day 2015 - Briefing Call on TrachomaListen to a podcast of Trachoma: A Journey to Elimination Learn more about our work in treating and eliminating trachoma and other diseases of poverty. Stories of Impact Sight Impacting Life Thierno[...]
Christian is a scholarship student taking AP classes in Corona, Queens. He is also extremely nearsighted and requires new prescription glasses almost every year, something his family cannot afford. Here, he shares how ChildSight® has given[...]
Howard Cohn is an American ophthalmologist with a specialty in glaucoma, and a strong interest in international ophthalmology and blindness prevention. Dr. Cohn has been instrumental in re-establishing a European branch of Helen Keller Intl dedicated to[...]
Bisallia, pictured left, is in 5th grade and has never had glasses before, but has needed them since kindergarten. When we screened her in February 2014, her vision was 20/200 in both eyes. That means she could not read any of the letters below the large[...]
Helen Keller International set up the first modern cataract center outside Hanoi and HCMC in Nam Dinh in 1994; an easy 4 hour drive South from Hanoi, where electricity was relatively reliable and there were already skilled[...]
Socially responsible retailer TOMS is best known for shoes, but their “One for One” philosophy also extends to glasses. For every pair of sunglasses purchased, money is donated to one of their Sight Giving Partners to restore the sight of a person in[...] 
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[...] 
Helen Keller International, a leading global nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting the causes and consequences of preventable blindness and malnutrition, celebrated a year of transformational work at the 2016 Spirit of Helen Keller Gala on Monday, May[...] 
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[...] 
US Vision Program Featured in New York Times "Well" BlogNew York Times personal health columnist Jane Brody features Helen Keller International’s US Vision Program in her latest “Well” blog. Put glasses on children who can’t[...] 
World Sight Day 2015 - Briefing Call on TrachomaListen to a podcast of Trachoma: A Journey to Elimination Learn more about our work in treating and eliminating trachoma and other diseases of poverty. Stories of Impact Sight Impacting Life Thierno[...] 
Howard Cohn is an American ophthalmologist with a specialty in glaucoma, and a strong interest in international ophthalmology and blindness prevention. Dr. Cohn has been instrumental in re-establishing a European branch of Helen Keller Intl dedicated to[...] 
Bisallia, pictured left, is in 5th grade and has never had glasses before, but has needed them since kindergarten. When we screened her in February 2014, her vision was 20/200 in both eyes. That means she could not read any of the letters below the large[...] 
Helen Keller International set up the first modern cataract center outside Hanoi and HCMC in Nam Dinh in 1994; an easy 4 hour drive South from Hanoi, where electricity was relatively reliable and there were already skilled[...]