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Helping Hands & Making Smiles

Mission Statement

Helping solve poverty all around the world.

About Us

We're not a real non-profit, but if we were we'd be a 501c3. Helping hands, making smiles is a non-profit organization that helps people in poverty get a better life and make them happy. This organization also helps provide to the people who can’t afford food or water for them or their family. We also provide clothes to people who don’t have the appropriate clothes for the season to help keep them warm or cool. This organization also provides free tutoring and school for the kids who weren’t able to get an education. We also have little rooms so the older kids can get some of their own privacy. For the younger kids, we also have a playroom so they can play while the adults try to find jobs.

Facts About Poverty

• About 13% of of the world don't have access to electricity due to poverty.
• 15% of the world in extreme poverty in 2015.
• Due to extreme poverty, about 297,000 kids under five died.
• Since 1990, more than 1.2 billion people have risen out of extreme poverty.
• Covid drove 97 million people into extreme poverty.
• 689 million people live in extreme poverty surviving on $1.69.
• About 1 billion kids in the world live in poverty.
• Most kids who live in poverty are aged zero to twelve.
• In 2011, about 800 children died every hour due to poverty
• About 1.6 billion people don't have electricity due to poverty.
• In 2021 37.9 people were in poverty.
• People 65 years and older are more likely to be in poverty.
• In 2021 SMP child poverty rate dropped 46%.
• 12.9% of women live in poverty in the US.
• 10.6% of men live in poverty in the US.
• In 2018 16.2% of children lived in poverty in the US.
• 9.7% of seniors live in poverty in the US.
• 25.4% of Native Americans live in poverty in the US.
• 20.8% of Blacks live in poverty in the US.
• 17.6 of Hispanics live in poverty in the US.
• 10.1% of whites live in poverty in the US.
• 10.1% of Asians live in poverty in the US.
• Since 1990 1.2 billion people have gotten out of extreme poverty.
• 9.2% of the world lives off only $1.90 a day.
• COVID-19 brought 97 million people into poverty.
• When families get out of poverty their children’s health and well being improves.

Wiki Media Commons

Sources

• 11 FACTS ABOUT GLOBAL POVERTY
• Global poverty: Facts, FAQs, and how to help
• TOP 20 POVERTY FACTS
• Poverty Awarness Month
• Poverty USA
• National Poverty in America Awareness Month: January 2023

Our Locations

Helping Hands, Making Smiles is in over 25 countries all over the world. See the map below to see where we are located. If you don't live in one of the countries that we are located in then you can always call or email us.

Contact Info

We would love to talk to you and get to know you better! Call: 505-555-2648 Email: helpingpoverty@example.org