I’ve been working at Helen Keller International in the Operations department at headquarters since 2010, where my main responsibility has been making sure the office runs like a well-oiled machine on a day to day basis. I’ve often wondered what[...]
Helen Keller International recently celebrated its Centennial Anniversary. In addition to a host of exciting commemorative events taking place in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States, our global team members have taken on the challenge of sharing[...]
Selinee Gonzalez is a shy sixth grader who lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn with her two sisters. She struggled to read notes on the board. “When I move to the front of the room, I can see better,” she said. But Selinee isn’t always able to[...]
“I need glasses,” says Qian, an outgoing sixth-grader who emigrated from China at age seven to join her family in New York. Her parents work long hours to make ends meet – her father is a cook and her mother a cashier. “My parents don’t spend much[...]
On Sunday, January 25, 2015, the New Jersey-based Hopewell Valley Youth Chorale performed their winter concert to raise awareness and money for our U.S. Vision program in the greater Newark[...]