WELCOME

Welcome to the Helping Hands Clinic
of Gainesville, Florida.

Since 1989, a group of volunteers have been providing care for the poor and homeless through a weekly evening clinic. Please browse through our site, and consider sharing in any way you can as we strive to serve those in need

Click Here for an article from
the Gainesville Sun on 10/06/09

Click Here for a 7 min video on the Helping Hands Clinic
(a 25Mb flv file)

                 


A Special Request to You

The Pepsi Refresh Project is giving away 20 million dollars to fund ideas that will “refresh the world.” This grant program awards 1.3 million dollars each month in $5,000, $25,000, $50,000, and $250,000 increments to the project ideas that receive the greatest number of votes.  Individuals can vote for 10 ideas each day.

The Helping Hands Clinic, Inc. has been chosen as a participant in the Pepsi Refresh Project. We are competing for $50,000 to “Prevent Strokes among Homeless Day Laborers” during the month of September 2010, and we need your help!  All it takes to win the $50,000 is coming in in the top 10 on Sept 30.  So your votes and spreading the word to others is important.

You can help us by registering and voting each day in September, forwarding this message to others, posting this information (on facebook, your blog, twitter, etc.), and encouraging others to support us by casting their vote!  Registering to vote will not bring you any spam from Pepsi.

Basic Voting Instructions:

Go directly to the link below:

http://www.refresheverything.com/helpinghandsclinichypertensioncontrol

Resist the urge to immediately click on the large “Vote for this Idea” button.  You have to sign in first.

At the bottom left of the page, quite small, are two choices:

 SIGN IN / JOIN PEPSI REFRESH

If you have not yet joined, i.e., voted a previous day, select Join Pepsi Refresh.  It will take you through a brief sign up process.  Once you have signed up and gone through the password and verification process, it should take you right back to the Helping Hands page.  THEN you can click Vote For This Idea, and you’ve done it.  (At the bottom of the page it shows how many votes you have left for the day; it should change from 10 to 9 if it registered your vote.)

If you DID already join, at the bottom of the Helping Hands page at link above, just click “SIGN IN.”  The sign in page will pop up, and once you have signed in for the day, it will pop right back to our page.  THEN you can click Vote For This Idea.  At the bottom of the page it shows how many votes you have left for the day; it should change from 10 to 9 when it registers your vote.

Once you have voted for the day, the Vote for this Idea block will change to Thanks!  if you try to go to it and vote a second time.  Although the website says you can vote 10 times a day, you can only vote for any one idea once a day.  Thank you for your help!!!

 


Mission Statement:

To improve the physical and mental wellbeing of the homeless and nearly homeless by:  delivering comprehensive health care, sensitizing providers to the special needs of the homeless and engaging the community in meaningful contribution.

There will always be poor people in the land.

Therefore, I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land. 

—Deuteronomy 15:11


 

Who are our clinic patients?

57% are Alachua county residents
65% are homeless
65% Male, 35% Female
35% have substance abuse problems
16% suffer from mental illness


Questions, comments or concerns
or to request a newsletter via E-mail?

E-mail us at helpinghandsclinic@gmail.com

We are a not-for-profit 501(c)(3

 

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