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 2025 Projects

    Projects in Europe

    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 leucemia, 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

    L’Arche à Grasse (France) https://arche-france.org/

    L’Arche is a place where people with mental disabilities and their companions, employees or civic service volunteers live and work together. These medico-social establishments, mainly financed by the public authorities, are also “communities of life“.

    To respond to the legitimate desires of people with disabilities to lead an ordinary life, L’Arche offers them a life shared with people without disabilities, a condition for truly inclusive housing. People with mental disabilities co-construct their life journey with the educational team, drawing on their personal experience.

    • New project for Helping Hands in 2025

    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 amis de Lacassagne (France) https://www.amiscal.fr/

    Les amis de Lacassagne association supports regional fight against cancer for Center Antoine Lacassagne (a.k.a CAL). Their aim is to provide this center some wellbeing and help for people unfortunately suffering from cancer. Everyone has a family member, a friend suffering, it gives Helping Hands the opportunity to support the center by various wellbeing action.

    • Helping Hands supports this association since 2024

    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..

    • New project for Helping Hands in 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

        Coup de pouce humanitaire (Malawi) www.cdepouce.com

        The concept is that for 15 days, a team of around ten volunteers goes to help on a construction site, helping with the construction or renovation of schools, hospitals, social centers, etc. These projects are supervised by local partners, and are run by a site manager and his workers.

        Volunteers fully finance their own trip, however, there is still a need to raise funds to pay the local workers (who supervise the work during the mission) and to finance the tools and materials necessary for the construction.
        Our Helping Hands’ project leader will be part of the volunteers and will help from the 10th to the 25th of Feb 2024 to build a nursery and a canteen for the children. During the stay, they will also organise a “kermesse” with the children.

        • Helping Hands supports this association since 2024

        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

        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.​

        • New project for Helping Hands in 2025

        Projects in America

        AlasCinco: let’s beat the hunger monster! (Colombia)  https://alascinco.org/

        Alascinco is a social model seeking to interrupt the chain of poverty based on sustainability strategies and improve the conditions of the population with bad economic conditions.

        The association has a semi-industrial kitchen where organic Granola “MOLA Granola” is produced by the kids mothers. Most of these are single mothers struggling to find a job so this initiative provides a genuine income to the association, provide job to the children’s mothers and healthy food for the children and the community.

        • Helping Hands supports this association since 2022

        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