The 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,[...]
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 Stephanie Palmer, Program Manager for Integrated Control of NTDs, recently spoke with the Deseret News about the urgent need to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases, which impact many of the world’s poorest[...]
Helen Keller International's Elizabeth Zehner, project director for the ARCH child feeding research project, weighs in on The Lancet breastfeeding[...]
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[...]
This story was originally posted on End in Africa’s website on August 20, 2015. “My old shoes are worn out and I was thinking if my parents can afford to buy me another pair of shoes before the opening of school.” Fatmata, age 8[...]
A version of this blog originally appeared in the Huffington Post on June 11, 2015. I have never been one to shy away from a challenge. Whether taking the train into New York City by myself as a young teen to attend dance classes with Alvin[...]
This op-ed originally appeared in the Sunday Review Section of the April 5, 2015 edition of The New York Times. The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay Matt Wage was a brilliant, earnest student at Princeton University, a star of the classroom and a deep[...]