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.

NOW LOOKING particularly for short-term volunteers living in Jersey Channel Islands to help on a project in Rwanda in Autumn 2010.

Also a physiotherapist and an occupational therapist (preferably with some paediatric experience) and 2 primary teachers.

Please see WHAT'S NEW in the menu on the left.

If you would like to volunteer abroad, go to PROJECTS in the menu on the left.               

To see the blog of Chris Barrell who goes regularly to Zambia, please click here.

If you would like to support the fundraising efforts of one of our volunteers, click here.

If you would like to sponsor a child or young person at one of our partner centres, please go to DONATE in the menu on the left.

To send a donation online, please click here   Cheques made out to HANDS AROUND THE WORLD can be sent to P.O. Box 62, Lydney, Glos GL15 6WZ, UK. Thank you!

WOULD YOU LIKE A NEWSLETTER?   Telephone 01594 560223 or click here.

'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.'

'GIVING A HAND, NOT A HANDOUT'