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Malnutrition and neglected diseases of poverty cause disability, chronic pain, and unmistakable barriers to learning and livelihoods.  No one should suffer the loss of their productive years simply because they do not have enough of the right foods to eat or lack access to low-cost medical treatments that prevent debilitating conditions.  Helen Keller Intl works to break cycles of poverty and disease, helping people to become agents of positive change in their own lives and communities — to overcome obstacles.

  • “Before, though I was strong, I had bad eyes.
    Now my eyes are healthy, so I’m happy."
    — Mamadou, surgery recipient, Burkina Faso
  • “We never used to plant vegetables in our gardens.  Then HKI
    came to our village, and now we eat vegetables every day.”
    — Alince, mother and homestead farmer, Indonesia
  • “I cannot imagine what would have happened to my daughter’s
    eyes if she had not received free treatment in our home.”
    — Mr. Lawan, father, Nigeria

How will you help?

$60 can provide two schoolchildren with free vision screenings and prescription eyeglasses. $130 can fund cataract surgery for two older adults, enabling them to see their grandkids for the first time. $240 can provide six people with surgery to prevent blindness from trachoma. $480 can provide vitamin A supplements to protect the sight and lives of 240 children for a year. $650 can provide skills and tools to two women, enabling each to create a small farm, grow nutritious foods and generate income. $1,000 can provide three children suffering from severe acute malnutrition with full courses of lifesaving treatment.
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  • Share and Celebrate

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Your Gift Can Help Provide
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Relief of suffering, restored sight

For millions of people living in poverty, the loss of sight means the losses of education, livelihoods and quality of life.  Helen Keller Intl relieves the suffering of people marginalized by eye disease — helping them to regain their productivity.  We give local surgeons in Africa and Asia the expertise needed to restore sight damaged by cataracts and infections like trachoma.

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Stronger families and food systems

Gardens and homestead farms don’t just produce crops.  They nourish families. In the places where Helen Keller Intl works, women spend as much as 90 percent of their earned income on household expenses.  So we help them transform themselves from subsistence farmers into entrepreneurs — leveling inequities and strengthening their families' futures.

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Protection from disabling disease

In many places around the world, wholly preventable diseases still cause serious disability and loss of life.  Helen Keller Intl works with governments and local partners to ensure that the right medicines are used to disrupt the cycles of infection in impoverished communities, which rob people of their ability to live healthy, productive lives.  The diseases may be neglected, but the people should never be.

FAQs

  • What are Helen’s Gifts?

    Simple and straightforward, Helen’s Gifts represent the various programs and tools that are a part of Helen Keller Intl’s broad range of work. Our mission is to help vulnerable people living in poverty around the world who suffer needlessly from preventable blindness and low vision, disabling diseases and malnutrition.

    Our three gift themes also express the profound legacy of our co-founder, Helen Keller. You can share your gift by sending unlimited e-cards that honor and inspire others to See Possibilities, Overcome Obstacles or Fulfill Potential.

  • How does it work?

    Choose a gift theme, make your donation, select an e-card design, and personalize with your message. Send your e-card to as many friends and loved ones as you’d like.

  • How will my gift be used?

    Your gift will help to support the full range of Helen Keller Intl’s work in 20 countries, including the U.S. It will be used where it is most needed, enabling us to deliver services with rigor, efficiency and compassion. Find out more about how we ensure that your donation goes where it's needed most to make the greatest impact at helenkellerintl.org/financial-accountability.

  • Is my donation tax-deductible?

    Yes. All gifts are deductible to the full extent allowable by law. Your receipt will be provided upon completion of your donation and you will also receive a gift acknowledgment by mail.

  • Why should I give to Helen Keller International?

    Helen Keller co-founded our organization in 1915 with the firm belief that every human life has equal value. More than a century later, Helen Keller Intl is still at work furthering Helen’s extraordinary legacy with landmark efforts that save vision and transform lives around the globe.

    83 cents of every dollar we spend goes directly to our programs. Helen Keller Intl is also a Charity Watch Top-Rated Charity and has been named a Top Charity by GiveWell.

Of every dollar we spend, 83 cents goes directly to help save the sight and lives of vulnerable children and their families.

Of every dollar we spend, 83 cents goes directly to help save the sight and lives of vulnerable children and their families.
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