Capsule biography of helen keller
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Keller, Helen &#; Story of My Life: Part 1
in: Blindness, People, Social Welfare Issues
Helen Keller&#;s Own Story of Her Life
Written Entirely by the Wonderful Girl Herself
&#;In the story of my life here presented to the readers of The Ladies&#; Home Journal, I have tried to show that afflictions may be looked at in such a way that they become privileges.&#;
by Helen Keller, Cambridge, April
AN EDITORIAL FOREWORD
AS THE feat may seem almost incredible, it may be in order to say at the beginning that every word of this story as printed in THE JOURNAL has actually been written bygd Helen Keller herself &#; not dictated, but first written in &#;Braille&#; (raised points); then transferred to the typewriter by the wonderful girl herself; next read to her bygd her teacher by means of the fingers; corrected; then read again to her, and in the proof finally read to her once more. It is the editor&#;s hope to be able to publish at the conclusion of Miss Keller&#;s own story a
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Our History
Our offices in New York City are destroyed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center; no employees are injured, although Helen Keller’s archives are lost.
Helen Keller Intl begins its leadership role in West Africa to promote food fortification. After the tsunami, we distribute multi-micronutrient Sprinkles® as part of the large-scale relief efforts. We also introduce programs that address the nutritional needs of people living with HIV/AIDS. The millionth dose of Mectizan® (ivermectin) is distributed in Tanzania, while our US vision program provides its one millionth vision screening in the United States.
The Helen Keller Visionary Award and Helen Keller Legacy Award are established in to recognize institutional friends whose generosity and innovations advance our mission and recognize the significant on-going support of an institution for the work of Helen Keller Intl, respectively. In , the is H.J. Heinz Company and William R. Johnson, Chairman,
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Keller, Helen
in: People
Helen Keller (June 27, – June 1, ) – Advocate for the Deaf and Blind, Author, Socialist and Suffragist
Introduction: Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, in a white, frame cottage called “Ivy Green.” On her father’s side she was descended from Alexander Spottswood, a colonial governor of Virginia, who was connected with the Lees and other Southern families. On her mother’s side, she was related to a number of prominent New England families, including the Hales, the Everetts, and the Adamses. Her father, Captain Arthur Keller, was the editor of a newspaper, the North Alabamian. Captain Keller also had a strong interest in public life and was an influential figure in his own community. In , under the Cleveland administration, he was appointed Marshal of North Alabama.
The illness that struck the infant Helen Keller, and left her deaf and blind before she learned to speak, was diagnosed as brain fever