Hands at Work - Their Mandate!

Hands at Work is a nonprofit organization which seeks to partner with local communities in several countries within Africa to provide care and support for their most vulnerable children and women. 

Presently they are striving to reach 100,000 orphaned and vulnerable children in some of Africa’s poorest places, ensuring children have access to basic health care, food, and education. They seek to do this by finding  leaders (usually church men) within those communities to raise up care workers from amongst them who go to homes, identifying which children are most at risk; and provide regular home visits as well as a basic meal and play time each day. These are all volunteers; folks living within their own poverty, who selflessly give of their days, 5 days every week of every month to work on behalf of those even more vulnerable. 

Most of these volunteers have their very own sad stories and Hands at Work comes alongside them to train and encourage them to help and give in ways that aid these children greatly. Many, if not most, of these vulnerable children are child led homes; meaning that they have no parents to provide or nurture them. Instead they rely on the daily meal and play time, and time away from the bleakness of their homes, that these caregivers provide in local care and feeding points.