What kind of causes and charities did Helen advocate?
Helen worked for a variety of causes during her life. She was an outspoken suffragist, an advocate of worker’s rights and an opponent of child labor, but she is best known for her commitment to improving the quality of life for people who are blind and deafblind. As a student at Perkins, she initiated and ran fundraising campaigns to establish a Perkins’ kindergarten for the blind and to pay for the education of Tommy Stringer, a poor, deafblind boy she met. As an adult, she lobbied for programs for the prevention of blindness, laws for the education and protection of the blind and deafblind, as well as state-assisted programs to help people with disabilities with job training and placement.
