Health Help International aims to improve the welfare of the less fortunate in our world
Providing help to both individuals and communities, our work is currently focussed in India and Zambia. Our projects are wide ranging, concentrating on health and education – from supplying infrastructure for hospitals and clinics to supplying medical aid to individuals. Schools and training centres are supported across these areas for both adults and children who have disabilities.
Our work in the UK is undertaken by a small number of volunteers, who give their time, energy and resources to HHI’s work. This ensures all the money that is contributed by our supporters is spent on our overseas projects .
The severe drought in Zambia and consequent famine is ongoing and HHZ are very proud to report that the feeding programmes continue to help. We continue to pray for the rains in Zambia, which have begun but remain insufficient to alleviate suffering and for crops to be planted.
In India, following the recent monsoons similar needs have arisen and our partners in Kerala are helping to feed those so affected.
Our projects are only possible through your regular prayer and financial support.
A VERY BIG THANK YOU!
It is with great sadness that we have to report the sudden death of Tim Hatherall, one of our management committee. For seven years he made a huge contribution, funding the films, the dining room and kitchen at Nanga and many other projects as well as making our gift aid claims, processing stoma items, working on the website and Mailchimp and working in the office on everything that needed to be done. We always had a good laugh when he was in.
He will be greatly missed by all who knew him, and especially by Margaret his wife. We thank God for his life and witness, and praise God that we know Tim is now safe with Jesus.
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Well, well
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A moo-ving story
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Travelog update
Jute, Liz and Chris are in Zambia, at their own expense, visiting our projects. Follow their itinerary on a daily basis.
WHERE WE OPERATE
HEALTH HELP ZAMBIA RECEIVING RECOGNITION
Grace with sewing materials
Last month, HHI received a short, inspiring documentary which had been made by the Zambian National Information Service (ZNIS) and shown on national television. It focuses on the work which Health Help Zambia has managed to do, with our funding, to empower the disabled people in Monze.
Grace Mushiba is featured at the start of the documentary. She has been successfully trained by the HHZ tailoring tutors and is now income generating, supporting her family and contributing to the HHZ menstrual hygiene project. Grace is totally dependent on her wheelchair. She received a new sewing machine and a made-to- measure wooden worktable from HHZ when she qualified. She is hard working and an inspiration to the four other newly qualified seamstress also featured in the ZNIS documentary.
Dimuna, Nchimunya, Justina and Beauty are shown receiving their new sewing machines which were personally funded by one of our loyal Scottish supporters. They are about to start their income generating venture and follow Grace’s example. Dimuna and Nchimunya are physically disabled. Justina and Beauty are mothers to disabled children who need income sup
HOW HHI GOT STARTED
Our humble beginnings started with an extraordinary event. In 1997, a postman delivered a parcel – an All Bran box containing £12,025 in cash! Along with a cryptic note saying “For church, for chapel, for Newport, for India.” Our founder, Ron Prosser, checked that the money was legit and began distributing it as instructed.
Over 25 years later, we are committed to our ethos of running entirely with volunteer labour in the UK, ensuring we maximise the money that is sent out to support our work overseas. All projects are suggested by local people, and are carried out in co-operation with them. Some we have started from scratch, others have been started by our overseas partners and we have come on board later, providing financial assistance and other help so as to help them continue, run better and expand.
GOAT to the rescue
Lalitha with Rethish’s goat
One of the people whom we help in India is Rethish. 23 years ago he had a fever and a tumour on his back. The tumour was removed, but the operation left him paralysed from the waist down. His wife and daughter have abandoned him so he lives with his aged mother Lalitha who extracts coconut solids from shells for a living, something that does not provide an adequate income for the two of them, so we give him a little bit of money each month (Rs.1,000 / £8 – money goes a lot further in India than it does here in the UK). However, a better solution would be to help them become more self-supporting, so, on the recent HHI visit, we agreed to buy them a goat. This has now been done. The goat provides milk and will give them kids, bringing the prospect of a healthier diet and greater self-sufficiency as well as enabling them to lift themselves out of the poverty that currently traps them.
Thank you to the wonderful donor (you know who you are) who provided the goat!
