HELP International

HELP International is a charitable organization that works with government, charities, and other community and business groups to identify economic, environmental and social problems and develop solutions that will have a significant and long lasting impact. The head office is located on their City Farm in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. There is also an overseas office in Nairobi, Kenya.

History

HELP International was founded in 1994 by Rodney Sidloski, a former agricultural aid worker with ten years of experience in emergency and development programs through the United Nations, CARE, and WUSC.

Key activities

Education

Help International has hosted hundreds of school and university groups for full day and multi-day immersion programs at their Ecological and Development Theme Park. Educational activities have included traditional African house building, stone carving, fabric dying, solar cooking, manual vegetable oil pressing, manual water pumping, compression brick making, fibre board and hand-made papermaking, grafting and tree planting.

Environment

The focus of HELP International's environmental programming has been on phytoremediation, tree planting for the purposes of river protection and pollution control, and developing zero waste technologies and approaches for homes and communities.

External links

* [http://www.help-international.com/index.htm HELP International Home Page]