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Helen Keller: Helen Keller Foundation
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The Helen Keller Foundation continues the work to which its namesake dedicated her life. The Foundation strives to prevent blindness and deafness by advancing research and education. The Foundation aspires to be a leader in integrating sight, speech and hearing research with the greater biomedical research community, creating and coordinating a peer-reviewed, worldwide network of investigators and institutions. For more information on the Helen Keller Foundation and a direct download of the short film, "Let's Talk About Floaters," go to www.helenkellerfoundation.org.
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The Helen Keller Foundation continues the work to which its namesake dedicated her life. The Foundation strives to prevent blindness and deafness by advancing research and education. The Foundation aspires to be a leader in integrating sight, speech and hearing research with the greater biomedical research community, creating and coordinating a peer-reviewed, worldwide network of investigators and institutions. For more information on the Helen Keller Foundation, go to www.helenkellerfoundation.org or view our recent multimedia release at: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/helenkellerfoundation/31254/.
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The Helen Keller Foundation promotes sight, speech and hearing research, carrying on the life's work of their namesake. The biography here is short, and the best reasons to stop by are the photos of Keller and the many luminaries she visited. These include Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplain, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt and modern dancer Martha Graham.
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In 1918 Helen, Anne and John moved to Forest Hills in New York. Helen used their new home as a base for her extensive fundraising tours for the American Foundation for the Blind. She not only collected money, but ... campaigned tirelessly to alleviate the living and working conditions of blind people, who at that time were usually badly educated and living in asylums. Her endeavours were a major factor in changing these conditions.
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[A]nother honor came to Helen Keller in 1954 when her birthplace, "Ivy Green," in Tuscumbia, was made a permanent shrine. It was dedicated on May 7, 1954 with officials of the American Foundation for the Blind and many other agencies and organizations present. In conjunction with this event, the premiere of Miss Keller's film biography, "The Unconquered," produced by Nancy Hamilton and narrated by Katharine Cornell, was held in the nearby city of Birmingham. The film was later renamed "Helen Keller in Her Story" and in 1955 won an "Oscar"--the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award as the best feature-length documentary film of the year.
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After college, Keller decided to help other blind and deaf-blind people. She worked for the American Foundation for the Blind and of the American Foundation for Overseas Blind. She gave speeches and wrote many books and articles. She started the Helen Keller Endowment Fund and asked for money from wealthy people to help the blind.
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