Project Helping Hands
HistoryProject Helping Hands (PHH) was started in 1994 by Jeff Solheim as an informal project to send teams of volunteers overseas to provide primary medical services and health education for people who lack access to health care. Over the past 20 years PHH volunteers have: Treated and provided preventive health education for more than 200,000 patients Provided health education and training for thousands of local health care providers Performed more than 100 surgical procedures Pulled more than 15,000 decayed teeth Fluoridated 80,000 more teeth Distributed more than 40,000 pairs of glasses Collected and distributed medical and pharmaceutical supplies valued at more than $10millionSpecialtiesProject Helping Hands is a non-affiliated, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing sustainable healthcare and education programs to people in developing countries, through culturally sensitive adventure.
