covers the tuition and materials for a leader in our Lead Like Jesus course. Leaders run through five months of training, focusing on developing a definition of leadership and creating an action plan. Leaders learn in a relationship-driven program to help them move from where they are to where God wants them to be.
Help further the work of the gospel. This gift helps to cover the cost of one-on-one training and mentoring for a chaplain on our staff. They will gain solid foundations in biblical training, church leadership, lay ministry, and more.
Give a Bible
Bring light into spiritual darkness. Lives are transformed when the Good News is expressed in people's native language. Audio Bibles are loaded with the Old and New Testaments and other Biblical teachings in Creole. This gift puts
Secure Family Package
a Farming Family
Equip a local family to provide for themselves. Many families in Haiti have the ability, but not the means, to grow their own food. Your gift will give them what they need to ensure a plentiful harvest, including seed, tools, and farming support.
Teach people to grow their own food. Local agricultural knowledge has been lost over the generations. Partnering with local organizations, we help expand the agriculture knowledge base through various training. Your gift helps give Bahamians access to training, including backyard farming, hydroponics farming, and raised garden bed farming.
Family Garden Care Training
Give knowledge and education to dedicated Haitian farmers, helping them support their families in the future. This gift pays for a parent in our programs to learn how to properly care for and attend to a garden, giving them the skills they need to provide for themselves.
Construct
Give a Chicken
Give a Goat
Provide a source of stability. A goat provides a stream of income and food for a family in need. This gift provides a pregnant goat to a family.
School Ag Training
Expose
Teach a Student
Give the gift of math. Equip our teacher through our Academic Recovery for Kids (ARK) program, designated to bring at-risk students back to grade level in math. This gift covers a portion of the monthly salary of the lead teacher.
Character Development Program
Help a child meet their potential. Cover the cost for a student to develop their life and leadership skills. Through our bi-monthly Character Development program, we work with children in Abaco to curb school violence and build healthy communities.
Library Books
Give the gift of reading. This gift puts five books into our Academic Recovery for Kids (ARK) program library. In partnership with the Central Abaco Primary School, we provide access to reading resources to over 600 students.
God is calling us to move into the next phase of our vision, multiplying our efforts into the community of Murphy Town, Abaco. Gifts on this page will help us establish our First 1,000 Days program, reaching families desperately in need of support. Your generosity is critical to making this happen.
1,000 Days of Support
For a dollar a day, provide 1,000 days of support for a mother and child going through the First 1,000 Days program in Abaco. This program provides children and families nutrition, health care, education, and support. Your support helps us walk daily with those in the greatest need over an extended period.
Provide Support $1,000
Standing on the Shoulders
Preorder the new book from Tim Brand
Allow someone to stand on your shoulders for a season by purchasing CEO Tim Brand's new book, Standing on the Shoulders: A Legacy Story of a Father, a Son, and Life's Greatest Gifts. Guiding us through this inspiring true story of love, hope, and redemption, Tim shares his father's journey through the last months of life. Life's greatest gifts are revealed, exploring the deeper questions of what it means to live a good life and how to leave a legacy for future generations. This book will ship in mid-January, with a portion of this gift helping mothers and children in need.
Preorder Standing on the Shoulders $25
“After Tim tells you Denny’s story, you too will stand a little taller and your life will never be the same.”
- TOMMY SPAULDING New York Times bestselling author
Launch a Program
Become a foundational supporter to launch the First 1,000 Days program in Abaco. Your gift will allow us to open a new program in a new country, reaching under-resourced new mothers and children to start strong lives.
Launch Program $250
“Having grown up with Tim and Denny, this story was deeply inspiring. Blessed is the son who will stand on the shoulders of a good, Good Father.”
- KYLE KORVER
NBA All-Star & Assistant General Manager, Atlanta Hawks
PROCEEDS SUPPORT OUR FIRST 1,000 DAYS PROGRAMS
Family & Community
Mobility Cart
Give the gift of mobility to people with disabilities. For people in Haiti who can’t walk independently, a Mobility Cart gives independence back by breaking their isolation and allowing them to be a part of their community. This gift covers the cost of delivering an assembled Mobility Cart to a person’s home.
Stretch Out Your Hand
Go beyond the reach of our daily programs to provide for the basic needs of individuals and families in the communities we serve. Through the Stretch Out Your Hand initiative, our staff identifies urgent or critical needs and addresses them. Your gifts will provide much-needed resources such as food relief and medical care.
Our Your Hand $75
Medicine for a Month
Provide children with the gift of health. Medicine is hard to afford in Haiti, especially when families struggle to buy food. This gift covers the cost of antibiotics, fever reducers, and other needed medication for 50 children for one month.
Feed a Family
Give hope to those who are hungry. One in three Haitian children is stunted or irreversibly short for their age due to malnutrition. This gift of a month’s worth of meals, including rice, beans, cooking oil, and a bag of spices, helps break that statistic while giving parents hope and their children a healthy future.
Newborn Care
Come alongside a mother and her new bundle of joy. Provide the essentials necessary for a new mother to care for her child. This gift provides medical assistance, food support, vitamins, education classes, and home visits to remind new mothers that they are not alone.
Emergency Care
Provide critical emergency care for children and families. With no access to healthcare or insurance, many in Haiti cannot get emergency aid or care, with some losing their lives in the process. This gift supports those who need immediate medical attention.
Sports Camp
Develop the physical, mental, and social health of the community. At these events, we bring people together, with participants gaining a sense of belonging through team building. Players also receive mentoring from local positive role models. This gift covers the cost of space, equipment, coaches, and food.
Camp
The following products were made by new Vi Bella artisans trained on the Many Hands campus in Pignon thanks to a combined partnership. Nine Haitian women were offered full-time employment with Vi Bella after showing good skill and attention to detail during training with seasoned Vi Bella artisans. The following items were made by these women and can be
Many Hands is an Iowa-based nonprofit creating local and global life transformation. Established in 2008, the organization aims to ignite generosity, grow community, and take people on IMPACT journeys to carve a new, better path to life. Each year, the organization reaches at least 30,000 people through its operations in the Caribbean, Impact Trips serving in Abaco, Bahamas, and Many Hands Thrift Markets located in Iowa.
Many Hands is called to transform together, to be love in action, in a broken world.
