Helen Keller International
Helen Keller, our co-founder, envisioned a world without barriers to human potential. Guided by her fierce optimism, Helen Keller Intl has been working on the front lines of health and well-being for more than 100 years. We deliver life-changing health care to vulnerable families in places where the need is great, but access is limited. Our proven, science-based programs empower people to create opportunities in their own lives. Since we were founded in 1915, our work has evolved from providing assistance to soldiers blinded during their service in World War I. Today, our programs prioritize preventing and treating vision loss and blindness—as well as addressing major global health problems such as malnutrition and neglected diseases that threaten sight, productivity, and well-being. In the U.S., Africa, and Asia, Helen Keller International’s proven, science-based programs empower people to create opportunities in their own lives and build lasting change. We build the capacity of local government, non-profit and private sector systems and infrastructure, and promote the development of sustained, large scale programs that deliver effective solutions to preventable vision loss and malnutrition. Guided by Helen’s vision and optimism, we believe it is possible to eliminate preventable vision loss, malnutrition, and neglected tropical diseases and improve the well-being of millions of children and vulnerable families.www.helenkellerintl.org
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Oct 7, 2026
Verlin YowdHOST
They cover vitamin nutritional access across 12 countries, maternal and newborn care, water in Ghana, maternal care and immunizations in Sierra Leone and Zambia, agriculture and women's economic opportunity in Nepal.
Verlin YowdHOST
The named partners include Vitamin Angels, Helen Keller International, Save the Children, Catholic Relief Services, a very big one, IDE and Care.
Verlin YowdHOST
And according to Alyssa Gilford, the church's director of humanitarian services, she says working at this level of collaboration is different.
Richie SteadmanHOST
Hmm.
Lindsay Smith RogersHOST
[instrumental music] Part one: Too good not to be true.
Lindsay Smith RogersHOST
In 1976, Al Sommer had finished his degree in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, as well as three years of ophthalmology residency and clinical training, when an organization then called American Society for Overseas Blind, now known as Helen Keller International, reached out to ask him to serve on their advisory committee.
Alfred SommerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They had been established to make braille presses for the French, uh, blinded during World War I, but now had taken on larger roles of dealing with blindness in the developing world.
Alfred SommerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There was interest in blindness prevention, and essentially I got started working with them.