Join the Helping Hands Family
Your Support Changes Lives
When you support Helping Hands Orphanage, you help provide much more than food and shelter. You help create a loving Christian home where young people can grow in faith, continue their education, discover their gifts, and prepare for a hopeful and independent future.
Why Your Support Matters
Every Gift Helps Build a Stronger Future
Helping Hands is much more than a place to live. It is a family where young people are surrounded by love, encouragement, Christian guidance, and the stability they need to grow.
Support helps meet immediate needs such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, and medical care. It also provides the mentoring, discipleship, and practical opportunities that prepare each student for life beyond Helping Hands.
By investing in the whole person, we help young people develop spiritually, emotionally, academically, and practically so they can enter adulthood with faith, confidence, and purpose.
A Safe Home
A stable and loving family environment where every young person is known, valued, protected, and cared for.
Daily Care
Nutritious meals, clothing, transportation, healthcare, and the everyday essentials students need to thrive.
Education
School tuition, supplies, tutoring, transportation, and encouragement to help every student reach his potential.
Christian Discipleship
Bible teaching, church involvement, prayer, mentoring, and opportunities to develop a personal and growing faith.
Entrepreneurship
Students develop creativity, business skills, financial responsibility, and confidence by creating and selling products.
Preparing for Independence
Life skills, work experience, mentoring, and practical preparation help students move confidently into adulthood.
Your support is an investment in a life.
It is helping shape tomorrow’s Christian leaders, parents, employees, business owners, and servants of Christ. Every gift helps create opportunities for God to continue transforming lives.
Become Part of the Family
There Are Many Ways to Make a Difference
Supporting Helping Hands is not limited to making a donation. You can strengthen the ministry through giving, shopping, prayer, and sharing our story with others.
Donate
Financial gifts help provide food, housing, education, transportation, healthcare, ministry resources, and the daily care our students need.
Shop
Purchase products created and selected by our student entrepreneurs while supporting their education, savings, and practical business training.
Pray
Prayer is an essential part of the ministry. Pray for the students, staff, leadership, educational opportunities, spiritual growth, and future needs.
Share
Introduce Helping Hands to your church, friends, family, business, or community. A simple conversation can open the door to new relationships and opportunities.
Every person can play a meaningful part.
Whether you give, shop, pray, or share, your involvement helps create opportunities for young people to grow in faith, education, confidence, and purpose.
Financial Transparency
Your Support Is Used With Purpose and Care
We want supporters to understand how their generosity helps the Helping Hands family. Donations support the ministry’s daily needs, while profits from the student store follow a clearly defined distribution plan.
How Donations Help
Gifts help provide the resources needed to care for, educate, disciple, and prepare the young people who call Helping Hands home.
- Housing and Daily Care A safe home, utilities, clothing, household supplies, and everyday necessities.
- Food and Nutrition Meals and groceries that support healthy growth and daily well-being.
- Education Tuition, school supplies, uniforms, transportation, and learning resources.
- Christian Ministry Discipleship, church participation, mentoring, and spiritual development.
- Transportation Travel to school, church, appointments, activities, and essential errands.
- Healthcare and Future Preparation Medical needs, life skills, job readiness, mentoring, and practical opportunities.
How Store Profits Are Shared
The student entrepreneurship program is designed to benefit both the student creator and the Helping Hands family as a whole.
After product and operating expenses are covered, profits from student-created store products are distributed according to the following plan:
Helping Hands Operations
Supports the ongoing care, housing, education, ministry, and daily operation of Helping Hands Orphanage.
Student Savings
Set aside for the student’s future, education, and transition into independent adulthood.
Student Earnings
Paid directly to the student entrepreneur as a reward for creativity, participation, and work.
Donations and store purchases support Helping Hands in different ways.
Donations help fund the overall ministry and its daily needs. Store purchases support the entrepreneurship program and are divided according to the 50/40/10 profit distribution shown above.
Generosity becomes opportunity.
Every donation and purchase helps provide care today while building education, savings, work experience, confidence, and hope for the future.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions About Supporting Helping Hands?
We want you to feel informed and confident when you support Helping Hands. Here are answers to some of the questions we receive most often.
Are donations tax deductible?
Helping Hands Orphanage is supported through Foster Street Wesleyan Church, a United States nonprofit ministry. Donors should retain their donation receipt for their records and consult a qualified tax adviser regarding their individual circumstances.
How are donations used?
Donations help provide housing, food, clothing, education, transportation, healthcare, Christian discipleship, household needs, and preparation for adulthood. Gifts support the overall ministry rather than the student-store profit distribution.
Can I make a recurring donation?
Yes. The Tithe.ly giving page allows supporters to select recurring giving when that option is available during checkout. Recurring gifts provide dependable support and help the ministry plan for ongoing needs.
Can I sponsor a specific student?
We are not currently offering a formal individual student-sponsorship program through this website. General donations allow the leadership of Helping Hands to direct support toward the needs of the entire family.
How can I pray for Helping Hands?
Pray for the spiritual growth, health, education, and future of every young person. Please also pray for Pastor Pedro, Mama Rebecca, Yeudy, the staff, volunteers, financial needs, and the ministry’s continuing work in Barahona.
Where is Helping Hands located?
Helping Hands Orphanage is located in Barahona in the Dominican Republic. The ministry provides a loving Christian family environment, education, mentoring, and opportunities for young people to prepare for adulthood.
How can my church or organization become involved?
Churches, businesses, and community groups can help by praying, giving, sharing the ministry, purchasing student-created products, organizing a fundraiser, or discussing other partnership opportunities with the Helping Hands team.
Can I visit Helping Hands?
Visits and mission-team opportunities must be arranged in advance with Helping Hands leadership. Please contact us before making travel plans so we can discuss timing, current needs, accommodations, and appropriate activities.
Looking for information about student products?
Purchases from the Helping Hands store are separate from charitable donations. After product and operating costs, store profits are divided between Helping Hands operations, student savings, and student earnings.
Still have questions?
We would be glad to hear from you. Contact Helping Hands and we will do our best to answer your questions about giving, visiting, partnering, or supporting the ministry.
Join the Helping Hands Family
Become Part of Their Story
Every act of generosity helps provide a loving Christian home, quality education, practical life skills, and opportunities that prepare young people for a brighter future. Together, we can continue building lives that honor Christ and impact generations to come.
Every Gift Matters
Every Child Is Known
Every Student Is Learning
Every Life Points to Christ
Thank you for investing in the lives of the young people at Helping Hands Orphanage. Your generosity becomes hope, opportunity, and a lasting testimony of God’s love.
Helping Hands Orphanage is a ministry of Foster Street Wesleyan Church.