Our concept is simple. Early each year, Helping Hands chooses which Projects to sponsor and then we organize Events to raise money and Collections of goods (food, clothes, etc.) to donate to local organizations.
- A Project is the association/entity that Helping Hands sponsors (monetary or items donation or both). Each project has a Project Owner (PO)
- An Event is the source of our funds. Each event must be organized by a PO.
At the beginning of the next fiscal year, the funds raised are distributed amongst the projects according to the Project Owner’s contribution to the success of the year.
Our 2026 Projects
Projects in Europe
Centre Antoine Lacassagne (France) https://www.centreantoinelacassagne.org/
Centre Antoine Lacassagne is part of the 18 centers for fight against cancer in France. It welcomes 6300 patients per year without extra charge. It is directed by a doctor, assisted by a director assistant. It acts in prevention,care, research and teaching within the public service.
Everyone has a family member, a friend suffering, it gives Helping Hands the opportunity to support the center by various wellbeing actions such as contribute to the purchase of medical equipment the hospital cannot afford, and make patients life smoother.
- Helping Hands supports this association since 2024
Go Purple! (France) https://www.helloasso.com/associations/go-purple
Go Purple! are a team of athletes participating to multiple sportive events in order to promote the fight against leukemia, genetic disease, and more. The run in purple for different races, mobilizing colleagues and family to run in purple for promoting blood donation, organs donation and bone marrow transplant.
Supporting the Association Laurette Fugain for more than 10 years, thy’ve been running for the Association Princesse Paloma since they met Paloma’s parents in DEC.2022 and decided to extend their action to Paloma’s association. Paloma has neurofibromatosis type II, orphan disease. Her parents are also helping other families in the hospital (hair donation, ease access for sick kids providing specialized material,..)
Since 2025, they will also support the ARSLA – Vaincre la maladie de Charcot
- Helping Hands supports this association since 2021
La Croix Rouge – Biot (France) https://www.facebook.com/croixrouge.biot/
The local Red Cross in Biot works with homeless people by providing food, clothing, and items of 1st necessity. In addition to that the local team would like to go one step further accompanying these people, by financing actions that could help them, for example paying for a car’s control technique or mechanical problem.
- Helping Hands supports this association since 2022
Les Chiens Guides d’Aveugles de Provence Côte d’Azur Corse (France) https://www.chiensguides.org/
Main mission is to improve the quality of life, autonomy, and mobility of blind and visually impaired people by training and providing guide dogs for free. They also offer daily assistance by distributing electronic canes for free. Guide dogs help blind or visually impaired individuals navigate and reduce the fatigue caused by the concentration needed to move without assistance. They provide their owners with greater autonomy in their daily lives, whether at work or during leisure activities..
- Helping Hands supports this association since 2025
MJC l’ile aux tresors (Escale) (France) https:/www.mjc-ileauxtresors.fr
The goal of MJC l’ile aux tresors (Escale) is to finance children (kids and adolescents) leisure trips for families who are in very high financial difficulty, sometimes in social breakdown and isolation. It’s important for these children’s emotional and integral development to be able to go a short trip or vacation to escape from their reality and have joyful moments with peers.
- Helping Hands supports this association since 2014
Projects in Africa
Gabatcha (Madagascar) http://www.gabatcha.fr/
Gabatcha focuses on building and renovating of local schools, provide educational materials (e.g., pencil, notebook, etc.), build libraries, organize free medical visits to children in need. In addition, they sponsor several high school graduate’s native of Sainte-Marie by providing them with a monthly scholarship.
- Helping Hands supports this association since 2015
Kenyan Kids (Kenya) https://www.kenyankids.org/
Kenyan Kids focus on providing full time care and protection to fourteen girls (Familia girls project) who were rescued from continuing sexual and physical abuse and in one case, early marriage. They are given housing until they have finished their education and are able to support themselves.
Kenyan Kids give children the chance of an education, a loving home where they can be safe from harm; things, which our own children may take for granted.
- Helping Hands supports this association since 2010
Association NY FITIA (Madagascar) Association NY FITIA in Facebook
The purpose of the NY FITIA association is to combat poverty in Madagascar through education.
NY FITIA built a school free of charge for the poorest members of the community in Madagascar. Teachers are certified by the Ministry. Every year, a new class opens. Instead of spending a good part of the donations in rent for the classrooms, the project is to build two additional classrooms for CE2 and CM1.
- New project for Helping Hands in 2025
Women Education & Economic Center (WEECE) (Tanzania) www.weeceprojects.com
WEECE association help girls and women receive a quality education and empower them through participation in economic development, education and advocacy. WEECE strives to provide members especially women in the community with technical information on social and human rights, legal advice and reconciliation of disagreements with partners.
It is the only community-based organization in the Kilimanjaro seeking to empower women both educationally and economically. It uses an integrated approach at the grassroots level with the aim of decreasing gender discrimination and poverty.
- Helping Hands supports this association since 2025
Projects in America
Fe y Alegria Children Center (Uruguay) https://www.feyalegria.org.uy/
Fe y Alegria Children Center serves 25 vulnerable children and teenagers of the Montevideo neighborhood of Tacuarembó city in Uruguay. It hosts twenty (20) children between the ages of 6 and 12 who attend the neighborhood’s public school plus five (5) teenagers in their first and second years of secondary school, between the ages of 13 and 15, who go to high school.
Activities done include:
- Personalized tutoring (including computing), recreation, and food
- Workshops with psychologists for children, teenagers, and families
- Oral health promotion program in partnership with the Primary Health Care Network
- Educational and recreational outing
Activities are handled by a team of educators made up of 20 volunteers (several are retired Teachers and professors) who provide direct care for the children (tutoring, recreation, and food), management activities (organization, location, financing, accountability, volunteer support, etc.), and a person hired to serve as coordinator.
- New project for Helping Hands in 2025
BurgosMarka Educational center (Bolivia) https://burgosmarka/
Burgosmarka reaches out to children and young people from underprivileged families. The center currently houses 142 children and teenagers, ranging from age 1 to age 17. The care provided to our users is comprehensive in education, food, hygiene and medical care. A volunteering doctor treats health and medical issues.
Their objective is meeting the educational, nutritional, health and hygiene needs of young people from poor and dysfunctional families. It also offers guidance to families to improve the future prospects of socially disadvantaged boys and girls in the city of El Alto de La Paz in Bolivia.
- Helping Hands supports this association since 2022