RPInternational1972

RP International seeks to fund and develop the Institute for Degenerative Eye Disease. The Institute will be responsible for the funding and coordination of global research into degenerative blindness, and collection, evaluation and dissemination of information regarding its caused, treatment and availability of services. 

Helen Harris is the founder of RPI and also a longtime activist for the blind and vision impaired. Years ago, Helen Harris, then a housewife, painter, and young mother, learned that she was slowly going blind from the degenerative blinding disease, retinitis pigmentosa. She soon learned that two of her three sons had inherited her disease. In 1973, she began RP International to provide support and counsel to those who suffer from retinitis pigmentosa and other degenerative eye diseases, and to find a cure for those diseases.

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