Winter 2011
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Greetings! 
We hope that this newsletter finds you happy and ready to celebrate the upcoming holiday season. It does not feel like winter here in Boston yet, but we know that the snow and ice is coming!
Watch your mailbox for our printed Winter Newsletter that will feature an interview with a recipient celebrating 5 years with her monkey helper. Remember it is supporters like you who make placements like this possible!
Don't forget to check out our Monkey Helper Merchandise section for great holiday gift ideas!
Helping Hands, like so many charities, is in the midst of our year-end appeal - please help us reach our goal of $75,000 by donating $25, $50, $100 or any amount that feels comfortable to you. Your contribution today will make our 2012 goals possible. From our family to yours - we wish happiness, health and joy for you this holiday season! |
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Training Highlights
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Imagine that you are home alone and you drop your cell phone on the floor with no way of picking it up. Not a problem for a Helping Hands Monkey Helper - one of the most important tasks our monkeys are taught is Fetch.
Using a laser pointer, the trainer points at an object and says "Fetch". The monkey then brings the object and places it in the lap of the trainer.
The importance of Fetch to a recipient cannot be stressed enough. In our new short film, Judy and Sophie's Story, George tells us about his wife: "Judy is immobile in her chair - when she goes for the phone and it slips out of her hand and drops to the floor - it's 18 inches away, but it might as well be 18 miles away."
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Looking Ahead
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As we approach the end of the year, Helping Hands would like to take a moment to share some of our most important hopes and goals for 2012.
First and foremost, we will continue to provide highest quality care for all our monkeys - in foster care, placement homes, and here at the Monkey College.
We are also looking forward to adding new recipients to our family.
We will continue to strive to support our active placements and increase awareness of our program so that even more people can benefit from the gifts our service animals bring. The staff and volunteers of Helping Hands take great pride in working with incredible new and longstanding recipients - witnessing and nurturing growing relationships.
Whether it be supporting our active placements, making new matches, or continuing to train and provide care for all of our Helping Hands monkeys - we know we could not do this without you. Thank you for your support.
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Monkey Grams - Still time to order!
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Celebrate this holiday season with a very special kind of giving- a Helping Hands Monkey Gram. For a $10 per card donation, we will personalize and mail a holiday card to friends or family.
Order yours today by selecting Holiday Monkey Gram from the Program Area drop-down or email Erica with any questions. In order for cards to be sent in time for Christmas, they must be ordered by December 15th.
*Please indicate that your gift is in honor of someone by checking the box in the donation form, then enter the name(s) and address(es) and we will make sure your cards are sent!
Interested in ordering a 12-pack of holiday cards for your own use? Contact Erica for more details. |
About Us
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Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled, is a national 501 (c) 3 organization and member of Independent Charities of America. We place specially trained capuchin monkeys with individuals living with severe mobility impairments. Relying on private contributions, Helping Hands provides our service animals and their lifetime support free of charge.
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