About HOPE worldwide

HOPE worldwide runs projects around the globe that aim to fight some of today's toughest social problems.

Here we look at some of the programmes and projects in which the charity is currently involved.

Homelessness
Two Step is an innovative and pioneering programme meeting the needs of homeless people. Working with volunteers and partners, Two Step has to date housed over 3,000 people. The volunteers 'host' homeless people in their own homes while the Two Step staff find them suitable long-term accommodation.

Drug and Alcohol rehabilitation
One Day At A Time (ODAAT), is a programme aimed at changing the lives of those addicted to drugs and alcohol. With its community-based approach mixed with 'tough love' and therapies, the programme has seen over 100 people pass through its doors successfully in recovery.

Leprosy
A leprosy sufferer in India (and their whole family) faces life without other human contact both physically and emotionally. 'The Village of HOPE' has over 800 families living in purpose built housing. The residents are given training and helped to start their own businesses while schooling is provided for their children.

Adoption
The life of an orphan is one of trying to make sense of the world without a family. At the Asharan orphanage in New Delhi, children are nurtured, trained and loved so that they can grow up and be happy, well adjusted people. Children are found loving homes where they grow up with confidence and prospects for the future.

Education
Children who grow up in slums or rural areas of underdeveloped countries are at an immediate disadvantage. Knowledge of computing is often the only ticket to escape the mire of poverty. Computer training schools as well as conventional schools have been set up in a number of different cities in India and Afghanistan and are giving children the chance to break out of the cycle of poverty. In Papua New Guinea, mobile libraries help isolated children access literacy.

Health Care
Empowering people with the knowledge to be able to understand health risks is crucial. TB clinics in India and hospitals and clinics in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Cambodia all serve to meet the needs of the sick.

Emergency Relief
The charity continues to respond with emergency relief to natural disasters around the world.

Our history

HOPE worldwide was founded in the UK in 1993 as a Christian faith based organisation in affiliation with sister HOPE worldwide organisations around the world. It adopted the already existing programmes of Two Step (housing homeless) and ODAAT (drug and alcoholic recovery) while also fundraising for programmes in the developing world. A significant focus of HOPE worldwide's work is to encourage volunteering - connecting those who want to help with those who need it.
The Two Step programme in London assists non statutory homeless people into long term accommodation. This has been strengthened by our Moving On mentoring programme which trains and supports volunteer mentors to help ensure those housed have the best chance of benefitting from their new opportunity. Two Step has housed its 3000th homeless person (October 2008) and is planning to replicate its success in other UK cities.

The ODAAT programme (One Day At A Time) provides a 6 month residential rehab environment based on the 12 step approach, supported by counselling and therapies to help people remain clean. It has a very good record for helping people for the long term and supports people for several years after they have left the residential care. This aftercare includes providing work experience and training to help men who have often never earned an honest living before.

Working with international partners such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS, the scope of the international work is vast. HOPE worldwide in the UK supports health and education programmes in Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Zambia as well as responding to many of the worlds natural disasters.

In addition to fundraising for overseas affiliates, HOPE worldwide in the UK has also started international programmes and managed them from the UK. In 2001, it started working in Afghanistan, opening the first rebuilt hospital after the war. It now employs 80 people, mostly Afghan, working in health, education and irrigation programmes and was registered as an Afghan NGO in 2006. Around this time HOPE worldwide started its Kupasa Banja programme in Zambia, supporting AIDS affected families - managed from the UK.

The charity believes the needs in the UK are often not as apparent as developing world needs but the work here is just as important. Plans are now afoot to start Two Step in other UK cities and to develop other volunteer programmes to respond to local needs.