Today, Helen Keller International and Vision To Learn presented free glasses to more than 110 K to 8th grade Jersey City students at Frank R. Conwell Middle[...]
On February 4, Helen Keller International delivered its two millionth free U.S. vision screening at an after-school program run by our long-time partner Children’s Aid in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York[...]
We welcome 2019 and all the opportunities it brings to strengthen our impact and accelerate our progress toward improving the health of the world’s most vulnerable[...]
Thanksgiving is a call to reflect on gratitude and community. Here at Helen Keller International, we are ever grateful for the legacy and example of our[...]
I was shocked to hear that the State Board of Education had voted, preliminarily, to eliminate Helen Keller from the history curriculum. Helen Keller not only triggered a watershed change for underrepresented groups of people, she literally redefined our[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Halimata 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[...]