12th Annual HELP International Celebration
12th Annual HELP International Celebration
This Saturday HELP International is hosting the Annual Brunch Celebration from 11:00am-12:30pm at the 8th floor of Zion’s Bank Financial Center in Provo. This is a time to celebrate the incredible growth and influence for good that was achieved this summer around the globe.
The banquet will include presentations by former volunteers and country directors. All 2011 volunteers and country directors will be honored for their service.
The keynote address will be given by Roger Dixon from the HELP International Board of Directors. Roger has spent many years working in Latin America and the Caribbean with the Pan American Health Organization, the regional office for the World Health Organization (WHO). He also worked with the USAID as Hurricane Reconstruction Project Manager for rebuilding health facilities and infrastructure in Central America and as a consultant with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is currently the Assistant Director of the Master of Public Health program at BYU. He works with the Kennedy Center at BYU to sponsor public health internships with NGOs and multi-lateral international organizations in Bolivia.
The mission of HELP International is to empower people to fight global poverty through sustainable, life-changing development programs. These programs allow the people we serve to become self-sufficient.
HELP International hopes to turn relatively inexperienced or mostly academically trained volunteers into social entrepreneurs who understand the complexities of poverty and who continue to innovatively tackle its endemic problems. Upon completion of our program, HELP participants often demonstrate the lasting effect of their experience. Our alumni have done everything from starting successful domestic non-profit organizations (furthering their projects internationally), to starting successful small businesses which sell products produced by community members they once worked with, and to whom they donate profits.
We encourage all HELP alumni to continue to serve internationally and in their communities. Progress only comes as we each follow the advice of Mahatma Gandhi “be the change you wish to see in the world.”
