Our projects
What we do
Helping Hands is mainly working with giving children and youth access to education i skolegang. We also want to help getting adults that are not working, out into the work force. The thought behind our projects has always been help for self-help – we want the people that we give opportunities to, to be able to manage on their own in the future. We don't want them to become dependant on us or on our help.
Many families that don't have the opportunity to pay the school fees for their children, get help by us. We meet children that don't have school equipment, like for example a backpack, school books, writing equipment and the right uniform. We make sure that these children get access to school the same way other children do. If they get through school, it's more likely that they get a job and become independent going forward in their life.
We don't want anyone to get passed by
We also meet people in emergent situations, and we don't want to pass them by even though our main purpose is education. If we meet people who struggle with disease and can't afford the necessary health care, we want to help these people. Again the idea is to get people well, so that they can get back into the workforce.
We also focus on family planning and birth control. We have had courses in family planning by local health personnel, where there has been given out information, free birth control and free HIV-testing. It's important to us that information about reproductive health is available to the women we meet, so they are better suited to make their own decisions for themselves and their lives.
Some of our sunshine stories