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Deafblind activist Helen Keller touches a plane labeled "The Helen Keller" with a graphic overlay of a plane and dashed travel path.
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Helen Keller Keller at age 66.

Helen Keller International

international organization
Also known as: American Braille Press for War and Civilian Blind, American Foundation for the Overseas Blind, HKI, Permanent Blind Relief War Fund for Soldiers and Sailors of the Allies(Show More)
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Helen Keller International (HKI), one of the oldest international nonprofit organizations working to prevent blindness and fight malnutrition. Headquarters are in New York City. In 1915 the American merchant George Kessler and his wife, Cora Parsons Kessler, organized in Paris the British, French, and Belgian Permanent Relief War Fund. George Kessler had been aboard the Lusitania when it was sunk by a German torpedo. As a survivor, he vowed to help veterans in some way,...

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