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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 | |
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