Mormon Helping Hands Service Project~Togolaise TV Station~Covered in Weeds

The Mormon Helping Hands program brings together members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their neighbors to provide community service. 

These volunteers in their trademark yellow shirts help people whose lives have been affected by natural disasters and other emergencies. Mormon Helping Hands volunteers also partner with government and nonprofit organizations to support and improve the communities where they live.   

The Helping Hands program reflects the desire of Mormons to follow the example of Jesus Christ by serving others. The effort receives resources from Church humanitarian services, and the projects are coordinated by local Church leaders.

"I cut some stuff up with a machete, and I burned a bunch of sticks! So that was fun. Where we would load up and take it to the dump, they pile it up and light it on fire! Haha I think that I like that better. I think that we should just burn our trash in our backyard from now on! That sounds like a better plan then the dump."

The Mormon Helping Hands program was established in 1998, and since then hundreds of thousands of volunteers have donated millions of hours of service to their communities. The program started in South America but has since spread to nearly every corner of the world.