Helen Keller Featured in the New York Times
Helen Keller Featured in the New York TimesThe New York Times is taking a look back at the lives of leaders and visionaries and Helen Keller International’s co-founder and namesake Helen Keller was recently featured. The article paints a vivid picture of Helen Keller’s life as author, activist and humanitarian. Keller spent much of her life […]
Vitamin A Expert at the Forefront of Helen Keller Intl Work
Vitamin A Expert at the Forefront of Helen Keller Intl WorkHelen Keller International’s first foray into malnutrition work was through vitamin A supplementation (VAS). Now years later, the organization’s continued leadership in this area has been facilitated by a nutritional epidemiologist named Dr. Rolf Klemm. Research completed in the 1970s by Dr. Albert Sommer demonstrated […]
Honoring Ban Ki-moon and Desmond FitzGerald at Annual Spirit of Helen Keller Gala
Honoring Ban Ki-moon and Desmond FitzGerald at Annual Spirit of Helen Keller GalaNew York, NY — March 29, 2016 — Helen Keller International, a leading global nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting the causes and consequences of preventable blindness and malnutrition, celebrates a year of transformation with the 2016 Spirit of Helen Keller Gala on Monday, […]
Helen Keller: A human rights influence
Helen Keller: A human rights influenceHelen Keller believed that the poorest and most vulnerable among us deserve lives of dignity and the opportunities to fulfill their own potentials. “The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all,” she said. From an early age, Keller was outspoken and forthright in her commitment to […]
Carla Hall of The Chew Joins ChildSight at Covenant House in New York
Carla Hall of The Chew Joins ChildSight at Covenant House in New YorkHelen Keller International’s US Vision Program addresses the critical need for vision care among under-served youth by providing free, comprehensive services directly in schools in high poverty communities. In July 2015, ChildSight® introduced a new program to bring vision care services to homeless youth in […]
Giving Tuesday FRIENDraiser
Giving Tuesday FRIENDraiserOn Tuesday, December 1 — Giving Tuesday 2015 — Helen Keller International hosted a FRIENDraiser at SideBAR in New York City. View images from the event here. Dozens of friends and supporters came out to hear entrepreneur Ken Adams, CEO of GorillaKilla, discuss his journey to making a difference through his company’s partnership with Helen […]
You Know About Black Friday and Cyber Monday. What About Giving Tuesday?
You Know About Black Friday and Cyber Monday. What About Giving Tuesday?First there was the frenzy of Black Friday. Then local mom-and-pop stores made their claim on holiday shoppers with Small Business Saturday. And as online retail exploded, Cyber Monday deals started popping up, claiming another slice of consumers’ gift budgets. But it wasn’t until […]
Helping People See
Helping People SeeSoon after I graduated from the University of Nairobi with a degree in Ophthalmology, I worked in an eye hospital where I would see up to 100 patients a day and perform 100 surgeries a week. When I moved to Ethiopia, I worked for the government in Addis Ababa in challenging situations where there was […]
Wings to Fly
Wings to FlyI remember the four hour interview I had to go through to get my position in the Finance and Admin office, but I must say it was truly worth every second. Working for Helen Keller Intl in the Eastern, Central and Southern Africa regional office has been an escalation of both personal growth […]
Realizing My Passion
Realizing My PassionI am Chinese-Vietnamese American. During the Vietnam War, my family received aid from a number of humanitarian organizations, so I have always understood first-hand the powerful impact of international organizations that help families in need. Once the war ended, my family lived in refugee camps in the Philippines, Singapore, and Hong Kong before […]
