Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled is a national
non-profit serving quadriplegic and other people with severe spinal cord
injuries or mobility-impairments by providing highly trained monkeys to assist
with daily activities.
Helping Hands raise and train these monkeys to act as live-in companions who,
over the course of 20-30 years, will provide the gifts of independence,
companionship, dignity and hope to the people they help.
Helping Hands also educates thousands of young people annually through the
Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program (SCIPP). SCIPP teaches preventive measures
for safety awareness, heightens sensitivity to the challenges of being disabled,
and promotes understanding of the human-animal bond.
Through the generous support of donors and volunteers - just like you - our
monkeys are placed at no cost with disabled people and their families.
