HELPING HANDS TOUCHING HEARTS
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Mission Statement
To empower the impoverished through sustainability with education, food, health and hope.
About This Cause
Since our Mission is to empower the impoverished, we concentrate on supporting education of the children in the villages where we work. We also relieve the suffering of the very poor by providing the basic needs (food, clothes, shoes, toiletries) for their lives, more specifically described below. HHTH has been operating for 10 years. We are guided by a Board of Trustees from a varied background of experiences (A Medical Doctor, CPA, Minister, Business Owners, and Management in a large corporation). HHTH works in South Africa and Zimbabwe and cares for 124 orphans at this time. HHTH provides food, shoes, tuition (where applicable); the children receive 4 distributions a year of 25 kg mealie (their staple), 2 liters cooking oil, box of tea bags, 2+ kg beans, sugar and salt (with variations). The guardians all receive a new traditional outfit each year. We support 4 schools with supplies or teachers' needs. We sponsor the food for the traditional achievement recognition day at Fethani High School. School children walk several kilometers to school and back. This year HHTH distributed 4 bicycles to ease this hardship. HHTH built a child care center, called the Palace of Mercy. it can house from 16 - 20 orphans. Other necessary projects (drill a well, water storage tiling the dormitory, and building a support structure for water storage tank, also used for storing maintenance tools, gardening implements, convert an existing building to a kitchen, fencing, etc.) to meet occupancy requirements for the South African Government have all been completed. HHTH starts families in small entrepreneurial businesses like chickens, gardening, and a sewing business. We hire local people to give them income for installing our projects. Under the support of education (this is their greatest opportunity to escape poverty), we started a new ministry this year of providing menstral age girls with washable, reusable sanitary pads. We work in remote places. Girls do not have access to sanitary pads, or if they did, they have no money to buy them. So the girls have to stay home from school every month during their "period." This year, we had Memory, (the lady we started in a sewing business with a sewing machine, serging machine, and a suitcase full of material), sew 200 pads. The girls of age got 3 pads each. We then had Memory sew 200 more so when we return in January, 2019, we will distribute those to more girls and again have Memory supply more. This not only helps the girls stay in school, but it helps Memory's small business flourish. She and her husband Mashonga are one of the couples who we started in a broiler chicken business. They have been very successful. With their profits last year, they hired tutors for their two children and raised them to the top ten in their class. Mashonga then took the rest of the profits and went back to school and acquired his own High School Diploma. Mashonga said, "because of our chicken business, we began to be successful, and I began to believe in myself and could see opportunities for my family." HHTH is in a great endeavor to support children's education in the 8 village are. It is a 44" X 55" STEM 7 VOCATION LAB. It will allow these children to go to university. The ones who do not choose academia and learn skills like baking, cement work, how to make bricks, etc. We produce a video each year on YouTube. This year it can be found under the name: A Day Without Poverty-HHTH This YouTube Video displays, with clarity, the work HHTH Charity does.