The Helping Hands program brings together members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their neighbors to provide community service. These volunteers in their trademark yellow shirts help people whose lives have been affected by natural disasters and other emergencies. Helping Hands volunteers also partner with government and nonprofit organizations to support and improve the communities where they live.
The Helping Hands program reflects the desire of Mormons to follow the example of Jesus Christ by serving others. The effort receives resources from Church humanitarian services, and the projects are coordinated by local Church leaders.
- Hyde Park Stake perform Helping Hands
- Farnborough Helping Hands
- Some of our Saturday contingency.
- Helping Hands at Haven House Hospice
- The Helping Hands project at Tottenham
- Brian has his "helping hands" full
- Coventry congregation members clean up the streets of Warwick
- Women from the Northampton congregations sing for residents of Argyll House over the Jubilee Weekend
- Farnborough Helping Hands
- Wandsworth congregation members on the Jubilee Service project in South London
- Women from the Northampton congregations sing for residents of Argyll House over the Jubilee Weekend
- Just a few of the Helping Hands team around when the Lord Mayor arrived.
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The Helping Hands program was established in 1998, and since then hundreds of thousands of volunteers have donated millions of hours of service to their communities. The program started in South America but has since spread to nearly every corner of the world.
Volunteer Charles Adebayo of Nigeria summed up the feelings of many who participate in the the Helping Hands program: “We find real happiness when we think outside of ourselves. That is true joy,” he said.
Some of the previous news releases that cover Helping Hands projects in the UK are listed below:
Mormon Helping Hands Launches The London Mayors Clean Up Appeal
Hyde Park Stake members perform Helping Hands service for residents in Tottenham