Health Environmental Learning Program (H.E.L.P.), founded in 1999 by an American doctor and an ecologist serving in the Himalayas, is an interdenominational Christian organization and community development program supported through donations. We use the model of Jesus’ ministry to meet both the physical and spiritual needs of the poor. Our focus is to equip the national church (Heb. 13:21), and through the church, to develop the community  (Gal 6:10).  Through Christian Community Development in the areas of literacy, animal husbandry, health, agriculture, income generation, and environment, we serve the poor of the Himalayas in Asia.

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HOW IS  H.E.L.P.  DIFFERENT?

Our mission is to empower nationals.  Virtually all donations go the field - we have no paid US missionaries, no USA office rent, and almost no overhead. The national missionaries receive pay for their professional work;  we pay no church or pastor salaries.  These committed Christians share the Gospel in a practical way while working in development. Full-time HELP national staff and volunteers  use their livelihoods to share Christ by loving and serving their neighbors.

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Students from Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian backgrounds come together to learn to read, write, and do simple math.  Women and children in many villages never have an opportunity to attend even basic school, continuing the cycle of poverty and ignorance.   

National believers are encouraged to love Christ first, and then love their neighbors as themselves.   Those that are unreached are hearing the Gospel, and indigenous churches are growing and planting more churches.

Graduating literacy teachers (above)) take the Gospel, with the gift of reading, to their remote villages, after receiving training from H.E.L.P

  

Sponsor a child in our Children's Home or educate and give one meal a day to a destitute child.

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Two former street boys and beggars now have food, love, an education, and knowledge of the God who loves them

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Samuel's mother, a deaf/mute woman in a small remote village, died shortly after his birth. Samuel and his half-brother would have died as well,  but H.E.L.P. national workers brought them to House of Light, where they are growing physically and spiritually.  Children who have known physical and emotional abuse experience healing with our unique program using music, art, nutrition, education, and  love to heal their hurts. You can give a gift, and nearly 100% of your donation actually  goes to the people in need due to HELP's bare-bones administrative costs.   Be a part of changing a child's life with less than you would spend on a nice meal!