Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled is a national nonprofit serving quadriplegic and other people with severe spinal cord injuries or mobility-impairments by providing highly trained monkeys to assist with daily activities.
We raise and train these monkeys to act as live-in companions who, over the course of 20-30 years, will provide the gifts of independence, companionship, dignity and hope to the people they help.
Helping Hands also educates thousands of young people annually through the Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program (SCIPP). SCIPP teaches preventive measures for safety awareness, heightens sensitivity to the challenges of being disabled, and promotes understanding of the human-animal bond.
Through the generous support of donors and volunteers - just like you - our monkeys are placed at no cost with disabled people and their families.
Now isn't that wonderful?
Just amazing! I'd never think that monkeys can be trained so well as to take care of the disabled people - especially those who have no one else to take care of them.
Posted by: Sophia | Tuesday, 08 November 2011 at 12:54 PM
Never heard of this organization before. Sounds like they are doing a great job!
Posted by: Alexia M | Tuesday, 08 November 2011 at 12:27 PM
It is , indeed, wonderful! I've heard of Helping Hands. They are wonderful people and train monkeys to perform various tasks for the disabled - such as pick up the phone when it slips off a disabled person's lap, take food out of the freezer and heat it in the microwave, turn the pages of a book, scratch an itch or simply be funny and cheer up the disabled person. It's amazing what animals can do for the human race. So, let us protect them and care for them and love them. Great post!
Posted by: Anastasia | Monday, 07 November 2011 at 09:45 PM