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 particularly SEEKING teachers, occupational and physiotherapists. Contact us for an information and application pack - 01600 740317 or info@hatw.org.uk

To support our work and send a donation online, please click here.

Please see Updates and details of Upcoming Events in 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.

You can also post a donation cheque made out to HANDS AROUND THE WORLD to HATW, P.O. Box 62, Lydney, Glos GL15 6WZ, UK. Thank you!

To contact us by phone or post, click here or to email us, 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'