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Artisans at Work
August 8, 2022Women Empowerment
Pictured here are the products created by the women at HHS’s ministry in Uganda. During the COVID-19 pandemic, HHS provided them with two sewing machines and $200 and these are the pieces they designed since then. These women are dedicated to creating beautiful artisanal crafts, however, are lacking the cliental to purchase their products. Supporting...
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Livestock Project
August 8, 2022Health And Nutrition
As part of our mission to reduce poverty in our communities, HHS is working to make sure our livestock project is successful. Pictured here are our technicians preparing the chicken coop. They are separating the large hens from the smaller ones and preparing their bedding in order for them to produce eggs. Our livestock project...
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International Women’s Day Video Series
March 8, 2022Women Empowerment
In DRC, like in all parts of the world, women in leadership must navigate sexist gender stereotypes when they are in positions of leadership. They carry the double burden of taking on most of the care-oriented work while being deemed less competent. In this video Mama Anastasie shares with us some of the challenges she...
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Supporting Community Members with Disabilities
February 25, 2022Uncategorized
The other day Gedeon, the hospital manager at HHS, was in Goma attending a wedding ceremony of a friend when he saw Mr. Sankara on a wheelchair in poor condition. He did not know Mr. Sankara personally, but was moved when he witnessed him struggling with his wheelchair. Mr. Sankara was being pushed by his...
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Our Mission

Helping Hand for Survivors, Inc. is dedicated to empowering women, girls, and children impacted by conflict and severe poverty. Through education, comprehensive support, and unwavering advocacy, we strive to nurture recovery and build pathways to self-reliance. Our vision is a world where marginalized survivors of war, especially women and children, lead their communities toward sustainable development and enduring peace. Our mission champions social justice, advocates for survivors of gender-based violence, and aims to create opportunities for every individual to thrive.

Our Vision

Helping Hand for Survivors, Inc. was founded in 2012 by Kashoro Nyenyezi and Dr. Jean Claude Luhere, who each survived atrocities committed by militias during the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Having endured the terror of these war crimes and eventually finding asylum in the United States, they were driven by profound empathy and compassion to build an organization dedicated to helping those who suffered as they did. Today, Helping Hand for Survivors, Inc. focuses on providing essential relief and mental health services to victims of rape and HIV, while also raising funds to support health, education, and family placement for children abandoned due to the violence. This mission reflects the founders’ commitment to restoring dignity, opportunity, and hope to those affected by conflict in their homeland.

Our Values

Helping Hand for Survivors values integrity, accountability, equality, honesty, and loyalty.

Improving the conditions of lives in poor communities, especially those suffering due to different conflicts in the world through acts of charity. That is how God will take pity on the weak and the needy and save the needy from death. Psalm 72:13

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Our Story

Who are we?

Helping Hand for Survivors was co-founded in 2012 by Kashoro Nyenyezi and Dr. Jean Claude Luhere . Each of the founders themselves are survivors of the atrocities by the militia during war in their home country of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Witnessing and living through the terror of Congolese war crimes………..

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OUR CAUSES

HHS partnered with WaterStep to provide clean water using the M-100 Chlorine Generator to disinfect water, making water safe for entire communities. HHS urges its beneficiaries as well as the community to use the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) policy that was provided to them to avoid continuous and preventable diseases. This policy is easy and simple to apply as it involves cleaning and washing hands accordingly. In South Kivu, cholera breaks out periodically….

Health, Nutrition and WASH

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Today Women empowerment is a very strong term. It refers to the ability of women to enjoy their rights, freedom and get control over the benefits they deserve. Women should be able to manage their work at their own risk. Women empowerment also states that they should be financially sovereign and have the aptitude to raise their economic status.

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Why Choose Us?

Helping Hand for Survivors exists to aid and expedite the recovery of victims in war torn communities. HHS focuses upon overall wholeness of the individual by assisting victims to regain strength of mind through teaching mental and emotional healing while simultaneously providing nutrition and medical services for their bodies……

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