What are we doing?
hands assists with community development and relief aid.
Educational support activities include the renovation of rural schools and provision of equipment. Through our sponsorship programme children and young people benefit from an education that would otherwise have been denied to them.
Projects for villages typically include the provision of clean water supplies, latrines and food production. We also encourage and support the development of skills and new initiatives that will generate income for poor families and communities.
In certain areas along the border between Burma and Thailand we are seeking to respond to the suffering of men, women and children displaced by the brutal policies and practices of the Burmese military dictatorship. This includes the provision of basic necessities for people in desperate and urgent need; food, clothing, mosquito nets and blankets and medical help.
hands supports the protection of children at risk
In the same region hands works to combat the trafficking of children for the sex trade and sweat shops.
The provision of protection, education and greater awareness of the dangers young people in the region face are part of the range of responses that hands is involved in.
hands responds to emergency and disaster situations
Our focus is to help with the long term rehabilitation of those who have experienced the tragedy and suffering of disasters like the Tsunami. Where possible, the urgent and immediate needs of such situations are also responded to.