Help Beyond Borders (HBB) started on the 25th of May 2009 as a Campus movement on Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria, Lead and Founded by Nosakhare Richard Osabuohien, with main aim of helping fellow student who could not pay for their tuition, feed themselves, get shelter and clothing by doing fundraisers and donations from friends and course mates to help. Years on, Help Beyond Borders (HBB) has grown beyond as s campus movement and now cut across communities in Nigeria and internationally helping citizens of the world get better life.. We’re people who are dedicated to ending all kinds of suffering and hardship worldwide. We’re a non-profit and much more. Our common ground is that we are all humans dealing with similar issues in our lives. Our group seeks to care for and support each other, provide tools to help each other in any way possible. We make sure to have personal commitment to the people we help by spending time with them and making them feel more appreciated. No matter your condition there is a solution somewhere and we will get it together. OUR VALUES:
• Professionalism: HBB value excellence, work systematically, set and keep high performance standards and highest standards of ethical conduct.
• Accountability: in its actions and in achieving results within our spheres of control.
• Transparency and openness: Integrity, transparency, and accountability at all levels and independence from business, government and party politics.
• Sensitivity: HBB believes that there is more than one way to look at the world and that the diversity of views, experiences, capabilities and beliefs enriches work.
• Participation and Inclusiveness: HBB values quality of decisions by actively involving youth and women in the decision-making process. It will also make sure that decisions are supported.
• Mutual respect and solidarity: with all youth and women worldwide.
• Resourcefulness: HBB will always strive to do more with less. OUR OPERATING PRINCIPLES:
1) Campaign constantly and fearlessly to change the social, political and economic status quo for the common benefits of the world’s most vulnerable, poor and excluded people in all facet of life Worldwide.
2) Promote a common purpose and interdependence among youth and women.
3) Collaborate with development partners by searching for synergies and promoting national and international solidarity.
4) Maintain a highly disciplined results oriented focus on maximizing impact for youth and women.
5) Carry out strong financial management and sound operating procedures.
6) Deliver high quality research to facilitate effective policy advocacy and dialogues.
7) Disseminates information through publications: policy briefs, books, websites, annual reports and conferences.
8) Forms partnerships with policymakers, civil society and scholars.
9) Prioritize problematic issues. WHAT WE DO:
Our activities epitomise the universal human values expressed through local and global citizenship - empathy and compassion, respect for community, social justice and equity for all, economic, environmental and social sustainability, and a belief that we can all make a difference
Our work seeks to create and sustain better futures by providing relief from disasters and conflicts, empowering women, fighting hunger, holding governments accountable, fighting HIV & AIDS, and making education accessible.
• HBB works with coalitions of poor and excluded people from around the world, bringing their perspectives to bear on policies that affect developing countries. We bring their voices into the Nigeria and Africa political arena and strengthen domestic support for changes in development policy.
• HBB works to improve the economic and social situation of the people by increasing access to income-generating activities and by providing required training to manage their activities
• Poverty is our problem. But we are hopeful. Our optimism comes from the people we work with every day. They are making change in spite of the odds they face. They are an inspiration. Together, we will end poverty once and for all.
• HBB work in partnership with communities and government, works to prevent and relieve poverty, combat distress and alleviate suffering in any part of the world regardless of race, gender, creed or political convictions
• Local access to water prohibits many children, particularly girls, from attending school as they must fetch water miles away. HBB’s Priority Project will build water and sanitation facilities for schools and communities
• To address these core themes, HBB provides solid research, targeted outreach, and timely advocacy activities, both to inform the Nigeria and International public and to build solidarity with poor and excluded people seeking to exercise their rights and assume greater control over their lives.
• HBB addresses the health and well-being of people, animals, and the planet. In Nigeria and any part of the world regardless of race, gender, creed or political convictions
• We listen to and learn from poor people to identify and help them fulfill their own needs, encouraging them to lobby decision-makers in their own countries, and campaigning and calling for change from those who hold power on the international stage.
