Program areas at Healing Hands International
DISASTER RELIEF ASSISTANCE. A drought in East Africa and Southern Africa created a critical need for food relief. Containers of food and food subsidies were provided to many countries in Africa. In 2023 HHI responded to disasters in: India, Israel/Palestine, South Sudan, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Haiti, and Malawi. WOMEN OF HOPE. Projects in many different countries are training, empowering, and aiding, women. Women receive training in basic business skills of budgeting, business planning and savings strategies. Revolving Loans and Savings Groups are making a huge impact. EDUCATION: The education program in Haiti has been suspended due to the continuing violence.
M.A.G.I. - (Making A Godly Impact) Christians from all over the United States pack shoe-size gift boxes to be delivered to children in need, both physically and spiritually. The MAGI gift box ministry has made a Godly impact in 8 countries around the world. The majority of M.A.G.I. boxes are given to local churches and missionaries to distribute in their impoverished communities. In 2023, 31,000 M.A.G.I. Boxes were shipped to children in Honduras, Zambia, Venezuela, Haiti, Ukraine, Texas/Mexico border and Dominican Republic. "Sponsor a Box," provided funds for in-country representatives to purchase products for the MAGI boxes locally, thereby supporting the local economy and saving on shipping costs
WATER DEVELOPMENT - Providing clean drinking water to people in under-developed areas of the world. Water Development Initiatives in 2023: 212 new Water Wells were drilled in 13 countries; 36 broken water wells were repaired and returned to a status of fully functioning. WALK4WATER: 68 Walk4Water fundraising events were conducted in 24 states with over 5,500 registered participants. The events generated funds to sponsor 155 new water wells.
AGRICULTURE - Healing Hands International provides agricultural workshops around the world teaching local church and community leaders how to provide for their nutritional needs. Over the course of two days trainees are taught survival gardening techniques using drip irrigation, raised garden beds, composting and mulching, seed transplanting and basic garden management. The goal is to empower these individuals to provide for themselves; to offer a more long-term solution by giving them a hand up, instead of just giving them a hand out. In 2023, HHI trainers completed 267 workshops training 17,535 people. Since its inception in 2000, over 84,500 people have received training in basic sustainable gardening techniques.