HALF HELEN FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
At half Helen, we believe clear eyesight is a basic human right. Our mission is to ensure every child and adult has the opportunity to see the world clearly.
About This Cause
In-school screenings revealed that Executive Director Chelsea Elliott was blind in her left eye and deaf in her right ear. In fourth grade, Chelsea learned about Helen Keller and surmised, “I’m half-blind and half-deaf; I’m half Helen”—a name that would come to characterize her life’s work! We estimate that 35,000 adults and 78,000 children in the Austin metro area lack access to basic vision care. Without clear vision, children and adults face significant challenges in their ability to learn, communicate, and contribute to our community. With your support, half Helen is transforming vision care so that all children and families have equitable access to diagnosis and treatment of their vision impairment. Our programs eliminate barriers to care by using optical Prime, Central Texas’ only mobile eye clinic, to bring vision care directly to patients at no cost to the patient.