to provide compassionate service through food and assistance programs to individuals, families, and children to instill dignity and break the cycle of dependence.
Boca Helping Hands Provides...
Service: Boca Helping Hands provides services to benefit individuals, families, and children during times of need, emergency, or crisis.
Compassion: Boca Helping Hands serves with compassion in assisting people in need to help improve their lives.
Dignity: Boca Helping Hands fosters dignity, self-respect and self-esteem in everyone who seeks our services.
Independence: Boca helping Hands offers the resources necessary to help people in need gain independence.
History of Boca Helping Hands
In January, 1998, a group of 15 people from local congregations in the Boca Raton area, concerned with the growing needs of hunger and other problems in the community, got together to discuss solutions. As a result, Boca Helping Hands, a non-profit organization which offers help to the underprivileged, was formed.
Boca Helping Hands first opened as a Food Center in November, 1998, serving nutritious hot lunches 3 days a week and giving out bags of groceries to families. An after-school sandwich program started in March, 1999. Currently we serve 5 after-school programs for low-income children during the school year, making and delivering over 60,000 sandwiches annually to approximately 360 children.
The Food Program has expanded to five days a week and includes delivering home cooked meals to homebound disabled and elderly individuals. In 2005, we served nearly 25,000 lunches to an average of about 100 people per day and delivered over 7,000 meals to the homebound.
The Assistance Center was opened in April, 2002, and offers limited financial help in crisis situations. It also assists individuals in finding a job, preparing resumes and mentoring for job interviews through its Job Program.
Our support now comes from 35 Congregations in Boca Raton, the City of Boca Raton, the community of Boca Raton, and surrounding areas and various corporations and schools, along with over 250 dedicated volunteers.
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Donations to Boca Helping Hands will help in the following ways: $25 will help pay for up to 10 hot meals served in our Food Center.
$50 will supply up to 700 sandwiches to the low-income after school programs.
$75 will pay for prescription medicine for an uninsured client
$100 will supply 7 families with a bag of groceries.
$300 will help feed 6 weekend meals to a child for 40 weekends of the school year.
$1,000 will help feed 20 homebound clients for one month or pay rent for one family.
Volunteers are the backbone of Boca Helping Hands. The services we provide to the community are handled by the dedicated men, women and younger generation that so willingly give of their time and talents. We invite you to join our team. If you have a skill not listed, please contact us to see how we can best use your talents.Learn how you can help BHH at our Volunteer Sessions
Partners & Supporters Achievement Centers for Children & Families Foundation, All Things Possible, Boca Helping Hands, Boys & Girls Club – West Palm Beach Region, Caregiving Youth Project, Community Food Pantry/ C.R.O.S. Ministries, Florence Fuller Child Development Centers, Home Safe, Horses and the Handicapped, In the Pines, It’s Just 4 Kids, Kids @ Home, Kids In Distress, Let's Grow Well Together, Pearl City C.A.T.S., Peter Blum Family YMCA of Boca Raton, Reaching Potentials, RCMA Farmworkers Child Development Center, The Haven, The Milagro Center, Youth Activities Center.
