HELP, or Humans for Environment and Life Protection is a philanthropic nongovernmental not for profit initiative, aiming to help protect save and enhance the environment and human life. HELP creates worldwide programs and manages projects that are beneficial to the environment and the society, conducts awareness campaigns related to environmental and human wellbeing, works on enhancing and develop
ing moral values amongst the targeted audiences and promotes a natural balance between man and nature. This initiative was developped by the founder of HELP, Tarek Charaf, a Doctor of Management, who has extensive experience and knowledge of management, development, planing and sport, and who has been involved since young age, in development work, as well as charity and philantropy. HELPs' philosophy is to use minimal budgets for its projects, therefore turning to privateers and locals, instead of going through the hastle of bureaucracy and red tape when following normal funding requests. Any person, within their own power, can find many ways to HELP those in need. The main objective of HELP is to create a worldwide network of activists, philantropists and educators, who will spread HELPs' philosophy and teaching, and work on funding charity projects. HELP's Concept:
HELP has identified multiple areas of interest. It is subdivisied into various committees, each one in charge of one facet of the fields of involvement, mainly:
1- HELP Environment.
2- HELP Health.
3- HELP Community.
4- HELP Sport. These four areas of concern define the fields in which HELP has decided to focus itself on for now. Each branch within the organization works on achieving the goals outlined for it by HELP.
1- HELP Environment:
Nature and the environment is mans’ source of food, water and air, substances without which the human specie and any other life form as a matter of fact cannot live. The environment is therefore the primordial area of concern, as with the absence of a healthy environment life in all its aspects is at risk. HELP environment is a branch of HELP dedicated for the environment and ecology; its goals are:
- Advise whenever necessary and possible on environmental risks and issues and provide viable solutions.
- Create a healthier and safer environment for future generations.
- Work on protecting the Environment.
- Work on protecting the Wildlife.
- Work on developing a Sustainable Ecosystem.
- Boost the biodiversity the Ecosystem.
- Create awareness and action to address major environmental threats among the government, the private sector and civil society.
- Educate the population.
2- HELP Health:
Health, as defined by the World Health Organization “WHO” at the time of its creation in 1948, is "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". Health problems do not originate solely from physical illnesses, they are also issue from mental troubles such as stress, depression, anxiety and other, which in many cases emerge due to social problems. HELP Health main goals are:
- Work on finding long lasting solutions to equitable access to essential care.
- Provide consulting to health authorities.
- Provide cheap emergency medical care whenever possible using the network of affiliated Medical Doctors and hospitals.
- Work on promoting beneficial and healthy lifestyles.
- Promote health issues and risks and their appropriate long term solutions.
- Conduct researches and reports pertaining to recent health issues and risks.
- Advise whenever necessary and possible on health risks and issues and provide viable solutions.
3- HELP Community:
HELP Community comes in play at a very crucial time, where community work is much needed. Differences in social class, religion, race, gender and other aspects such as greed, hatred, violence etc, are all contributing nowadays to a large and very deep social fracture. HELP Community ‘s main goals are:
- Defend, support and promote human rights, such as but not exclusive to, the right to life and liberty, the right to freedom of expression, the right to equality before the law, the right to food, the right to work, as well as social and economic rights.
- Advocate for Gender and racial equity.
- Defend the rights of children.
- Promote acceptance and respect of the other, as well as freedom of choice and belief.
- Use all available resources and measures to promote peace.
- Promote and support the rights to education and culture.
4- HELP Sport:
HELP has identified sport as one of its critical areas of concern, as sport on a heatlh level, as well as a social and cultural level, brings many advantages to the beneficiary of this program. HELP Sports’ main goal, is to nurture and establish the following values and benefits:
- Healthy body
- Healthy mind
- Fair Play
- Acceptance of the other
- Patriotism
- Respect of the other, regardless of gender, color, race, religion, etc…
- A mean to stay away from drugs and crime
