In the field of humanitarian aid, the World Help Fund supports people and organizations which commit themselves to improving the standard of living in third world countries.

Annually, thousands of people escape from third world countries to the rich west in search of a better living. In their own countries, many people die because of hunger or war. The World Help Fund wants to help people by creating a better life in their own countries, reducing the necessity to flee their homeland. By providing education in the field of agriculture, livestock-farming and healthcare, people in third world countries have hope and the opportunity to improve the standard of living in their own country.

The World Help Fund regularly examines which organizations provide the largest contributions to improve the standard of living in third world countries. The following organizations are momentarily supported by the World Help Fund:

• Habitat for humanity
• Humana
• World Vision
• Unicef
• Funds for Hope

For this reason the World Help Fund supports those organizations and people who contribute to develop the activities mentioned below in third world countries.

• Offering education to motivated young and elderly people. Education gives, as it happens, a feeling of self esteem to people and opens perspectives. Because of this people are formed to make a contribution to the development of their own country.

• Giving information concerning alternative techniques in durable agriculture and livestock-farming to the local farmers.

• Providing a better access, to farmers and small entrepreneurs, to the markets on which their products are traded. Only if they can participate under equivalent conditions to those markets they can succeed in obtaining better prices, improving the quality of their products and contracting durable relations with their buyers.

• Stimulating farmers and small entrepreneurs to learn to think more market focused, so that they can acquire a stronger position on the market.

• Stimulating cooperation between small farmers and local processing companies (Contract Cultivation). Farmers are in this way better protected against practicing middlemen and buyers.

• Stimulating poor people to, wherever possible, use influence on political decisions that influence their own environment.

• Equipping people to limit the impact of natural disasters.

• Giving information and resources to the local population so that they can moor water wells themselves and maintain them.

• Giving information about health issues.