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Mission
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Values We believe providing aid that corresponds to the needs of people living in poverty enables people to take control of their lives, gives hope and asserts dignity.
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The SimplyHelp Foundation (SHF) seeks to aid people living in poverty throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America, Caribbean and the U.S.. Established in 2000 as a 501 (c) (3) organization, SHF has among others received Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC of the United Nations. Since its inception in 2000, SimplyHelp has distributed more than 102 containers of food, clothing, shoes, computers, and other goods to 18 developing countries. The organization maintains a minimal administrative average—ensuring that the poor receive 90 percent of all donations. SHF follows the principle that education fortifies charity work so that recipients learn to break out of the cycle of poverty.
SimplyHelp supports educational programs that teach recipients how to develop small businesses and provides basic vocational training programs to students.
SimplyHelp utilizes multiple channels for collecting and re-distributing resources to the needy worldwide. The foundation collects funds from benefactors, purchases goods in a cost-effective manner, ships the items duty-free, and arranges for their distribution to the people living in poverty through NGOs and charity organizations in 18 countries. To help accomplish this, SHF has forged a spirit of cooperation between NGOs in the United States, as well as NGOs in the developing countries.
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Distribution
Housing
Education
Disaster Relief
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Tina Bow, founder of SimplyHelp, was born to a military family in Taiwan, and grew up in a subsidized military housing project. When she was a child, people in Taiwan still suffered from the scars of World War II, and could only hope for the basic needs in life to be fulfilled. Toys were scarce and considered a luxury even though every young girl dreamed to have at least one. Due to the hardship in her childhood, her life long ambition was to become wealthy. She spent four years in a university and majored in business administration. After graduation, she worked as a stewardess for China Airlines. During her career, she had a chance to see the outside world and dreamed of life overseas. After four years as a stewardess, she married into the family that owns Chung Hsin Textile Corporation, one of the largest textile groups in Taiwan. She later immigrated to the United States to begin her new life there. After marriage she discovered that the opulent life did not provide the fulfillment she desired, and she started a new career. Tina got involved in the real estate business in Beverly Hills, and for the next ten years, she devoted her life to selling houses for the rich and famous. Her financial reward was plentiful. The motivation for the single-minded pursuit of material wealth was based on the experience of a poor childhood. The tradition from "rags to riches" story did not end there as wealth brought along with it the desire for more. Tina needed fame. She got deeply involved in the political world, hoping that success in this domain would uplift her social status and provide new opportunities. In the world of politics, she saw how ugly politics could be and how greedy human nature really was. She even witnessed the damage done to her friends who were intertwined in the Chinese Donation Scandal. After the disillusionment of the political ordeal, she had a new insight. She profoundly realized the pursuit of material worldly success in the end did not bring personal fulfillment. She regretted that she did not spend time with her children when they really needed her. She felt sorry that she had never even been to a baseball game with them. As her process of self awareness evolved, Tina started looking inward for spiritual cultivation and the true inner satisfaction that had eluded her. She traveled alone to remote villages in the poor areas of Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam and Tibet. During her year of travel, she lived a simple life, avoiding the comforts of five star hotels. She put all of her belongings in several suitcases and kept them in storage areas at the airport. To make her journey easier, she carried only one bag. Tina talked and lived with the ordinary people in the villages and shared their feelings about their life. Soon a great sense of peace and happiness that she never experienced before began to emerge from within her life. Upon returning from these travels, Tina realized that material success was not the solution to her true happiness. She decided to sell her five-bedroom house and moved into a one bedroom condo. She went to college to attend a class for self development. One of the projects in her class was to help the needy with second hand goods. During this time, Mario Rivera came into the picture. Mario was working for a company that performed maintenance work on the properties Tina owned. Tina soon noticed that Mario hardly knew anything about maintenance work, and she called the contracted company for an explanation of why Mario was hired to do the job for her. The company said that Mario had a family to support and needed a job. Later on, she found out that Mario was not only a hard worker; he was also a preacher and was in the process of building a church. After she learned more about Mario and his world, she discussed the community project with him and requested his assistance for the project. Mario came from El Salvador and lived in a poor neighborhood. He was very familiar with Latino families in L.A., Central and South America. The aim of the project was to gather donated used goods and deliver them to the needy. Tina bought a used truck for pick up and delivering. After she completed her project, she saw the tears and joy from the villagers when she delivered the goods to them. Tina's heart was bleeding! She remembered the feeling when she wanted a toy so bad as a child and could not have one. She then realized that there were still so many impoverished people in this world. From this realization, she was determined to continue her efforts to help the poor people by collecting and delivering the second hand goods directly to them. She found a true calling in life that brought with it great happiness. She swore she would do charity work forever! Tina and Mario founded a charity organization called "SimplyHelp Inc" on July 6, 2000.
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The SimplyHelp Foundation is able to do its important work is because of the support it receives from it's partners. Below you will find a growing list of international entities that share in the same vision to empower people living in poverty through providing education, vocational training, food, shelter, accessible potable water and disaster relief, in order to facilitate sustainable development. Our Partners Are Listed In Alphabetical Order:
Comite De Proyeccion Social El Salvador
ECOSOC
Una Techo Para Mi Pais: Gracias Colecta
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