Helping-Hand Appeal 2024

Help us fight human trafficking in 2024

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The Helping-Hand Appeal is an annual collaboration between the Family Ministries Unit and International Development UK.

The focus of the 2024 Helping-Hand Appeal is Anti-Trafficking - working alongside communities to raise awareness and support survivors.

Helping-Hand 2024 Resources

Engage your corps and community in Helping-Hand 2024 using a selection of resources.

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Human trafficking is a crime which impacts people all over the world.

Traffickers often target those who are already vulnerable, socially isolated or simply in need of work. Often it is the promise of a better life or the chance to earn money which lures people away from the safety of the places they know and the people they love.

Through prevention, protection and partnership, The Salvation Army is working alongside communities to bring human trafficking to an end.

This year’s Helping-Hand Appeal is designed to help you and your community to pray, raise money and increase awareness about the issue of human trafficking, and to stand alongside survivors.

Together, we can raise awareness.

Together, we can support survivors.

Together, we can strengthen resilience.

Together, we can stop human trafficking!

Helping-Hand is primarily a fundraising appeal. Any money raised and donated during 2024 will be used to fund The Salvation Army's international anti-trafficking projects. Here are a few ways you could raise money for Helping-Hand 2024 either individually or as part of a team:

SPORTS TOURNAMENT: Challenge your friends, family or colleagues to some friendly competition. Whether it’s rounders, football, cricket or netball - choose a team sport which is popular with your group. Remember it is ‘pay to play’.

QUIZ NIGHT: An easy one to host, in a venue, church hall or at home. For an evening of relaxed entertainment, ask groups for an entry fee and find your quiz questions online. Show one of the Helping-Hand 2024 videos halfway through, or have a round all about the issue of human trafficking, to remind people why they are there.

SAVE AND GIVE: Donate what you would normally spend on getting the car washed / buying a coffee / getting a takeaway … and watch the pounds mount up!

GENEROSITY JAR: Keep a container/jar in your home or on your group's registration desk where people can pop in their spare change throughout the Appeal.

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The Helping-Hand Appeal was the inspiration of Colonel Olive Booth during the Second World War. Soon afterwards a regular pattern developed and the worldwide Home League began donating money to a variety of Salvation Army projects, particularly those overseas. The resources produced enabled funds to be raised in creative and challenging ways alongside learning something about the partner territory in which each project is situated.

This current collaboration between Family Ministries and International Development commenced with the 2001 Appeal ‘Living Water’ and has, since that time, raised in excess of £2.5 million. The Appeal supports The Salvation Army's international projects in the areas of anti-trafficking, clean water, food security, gender justice and income generation.