Who Is Helen Keller?

Helen Keller is one of the most famous handicapped persons in the world, as many of you know Helen was Blind and deaf but she was not born blind and deaf but when she was a year and seven months old. She got a disease described as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", that eventually made her deaf and blind so even though she had some challenges she came to be a important person in life for example she was an advocate, she founded an organization and she met many Famous people.

by saying that she was an advocate I said that she worked for the people with disabilities and numerous other causes she tried to be a world-famous speaker and author and so she work for peoples right.

She founded an organization. Helen Keller and George Kessler founded The Helen Keller International organization. This organization is devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition. In 1920, she also helped to found the (ACLU) American Civil Liberties Union they consist defending and preserving the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the and laws of the United States.

According to (wikipedia) Keller met every US Presidents from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin, and Mark Twain.

Helen Keller was a very important person because even though she was, handicapped she did many thing in life she change many peoples lives, and she was known all over there world.


http://www.who2.com/helenkeller.html
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/helen_keller_bio.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller
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