Helping Hungry Hands

Helping Hungry Hands provides resources to children, their families, and their schools in South American countries to ensure students are well nourished when attending school. These resources include support for nutrition education, demonstration projects on growing their own food, gardening tools and seeds, start-up supplies for raising livestock, financial assistance, and individual student sponsorship. The students, families and school officials are assisted in the development of a self-sustaining community.

Helping Hungry Hands is a volunteer 501(c)3 nonprofit organization created in 2018 with help from Joe and Deolinda Wagner of Eastern Iowa, USA. As a Peace Corps volunteer Joe spent two years in Paraguay, where he met his wife Deolinda, a native Paraguayan. They have two children - Emily and Obie.

The Wagner Family has frequently traveled to Paraguay to visit relatives. Upon finding out that there were children in the country going to school hungry, it was decided a positive change had to be made. With support from family, friends, and many others, Helping Hungry Hands was formed to teach children and their families how to help themselves in order to create a sustainable healthy lifestyle free from hunger.

Testimonials

"We are so proud to be carrying on Deolinda's legacy in this way, helping her dream become a reality. It is humbling to be a part of." - Emily Burds, HHH Vice President