Hands Around the World
Hands Around the World (HATW) is a charity which seeks to help vulnerable children around the world, encouraging enthusiastic and well-prepared short-term volunteers to offer practical help, skill-sharing, support and friendship.
Trustees and Officers
Piers Baker (Chairman)
Sous Le Bois,
Le Mont de Rozel
St Martin
Jersey, JE3 6AN
Tel: 448138(w) or 863640 (h)
Email: p.baker2@gov.je
Jillian Corbin ('Friends' link)
Ravenscroft
La Route de Noirmont
St Brelade
Jersey, JE3 8AJ
Tel: 499470
Email: circuit.office@jerseymail.co.uk
Michael Haden (Treasurer)
Les Deux Ruelles
Le Feuguerel
St Lawrence
Jersey, JE3 1FT
Tel: 441076 (w) or 861796 (h)
Email: m.haden@gov.je
Heidi Sydor (Secretary)
La Vallette
La Rue de la Vallee
Trinity
Jersey, JE3 5FA
Tel: 861858 (h)
Email: h.sydor@gov.je
HANDS AROUND THE WORLD was founded in 1994 by Dr. David Steiner, who for many years lived and worked as a doctor in general practice in Jersey. He became involved with the States of Jersey Overseas Aid Programme and became increasingly concerned for people in developing countries. Following a year with his family working in a rural hospital in Zambia, David and Lynda returned to England where they established the organisation.
HANDS AROUND THE WORLD seeks to help vulnerable children around the world, responding to specific needs by:
sending groups of volunteers on projects lasting about a month to places of need such as hospitals, schools and community centres.
sending individual skilled volunteers to such places, often in a training role, and hopefully followed by further input a short time later.
The projects aim to:
- show love in action;
- help people work side by side;
- relieve suffering;
- achieve something lasting and worthwhile;
- broaden the experience of the volunteers and to develop lasting links between communities.
Jersey Hands Around the World provides a network for past team members, present sponsors and future volunteers to keep supporting the work of the charity. A Jersey project team went to help build a multi-purpose education centre in a poor community in Mossoro (Brazil) in January 2008 and the next one heads for Muko School in Rwanda in the autumn of 2010 to help build classrooms for the ever-increasing numbers of children. This project needs to raise at least £20,000 before it leaves.
Further information on projects can be found on the website: http://www.hatwj.org.je/
'Our hands around the world may get grubby and blistered, they may need to hold a sick child or comfort a grieving parent, they may sometimes be asked simply to hold the hand of another, but there is always more to these hands than practical help alone.'