ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
HUMAN BETTERMENT DOES NOT HAVE TO COME AT THE EXPENSE OF FUTURE GENERATIONS
The environmental factors cut into virtually all development programs. In developing countries, people are trapped together with the environment in a downward spiral. The enormous uncertainty about transnational environmental impacts needs to be incorporated into decision-making. Current policies that subsidize environmentally harmful activities should be stopped. The global ecosystem is the sink for all the wastes created by economic subsystems and it is clear the sink has limited assimilative capacity. Land fill sites are becoming harder to find. Land degradation, desertification, urban encroachment onto agricultural land, blacktopping, soil erosion and pollution are all rapidly increasing.
The evidence of atmospheric carbon dioxide accumulation is pervasive and unimaginably expensive to cure if allowed to worsen. Global warning is the evidence that global limits have been exceeded. This is a situation that urges prompt corroboration and analysis of the implications.
The depletion of the ozone shield is not helping human health. The relationship between the increased ultra-violet radiation and skin cancers, depression of immune systems, and the development of tumors is well documented.
In order to reverse this destructive course, Helping Hands International will invite partnerships on projects such as: agro-forestry, reforestation, irrigation, soil conservation
Environmental Causes
Helping Hands International's programs engage citizens in challenging the unsustainable use of natural resources and in protecting biological diversity.
The centuries-old third world countries practice of cutting trees to make charcoal and cooking woods was creating a long ignored massive erosion and flooding problems.
Responding to the call to save some third world countries from deforestation, Helping Hands International promotes: tree planting, water conservation, pollution prevention, gardening, solar technology, beautification projects (urban, forest and beach).
Strategies are grassroots activism, monitoring the enforcement of environmental laws, public policy advocacy, collaborative opportunities, media outreach, and model or demonstration projects fostering sustainable policies and practices.
Environmental Education
Helping Hands International delivers hands-on environmental projects. The organization also works to encourage innovative programs that empower children and youth to work individually and collectively to solve environmental problems in their neighborhoods and communities.
