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SimplyHelp has Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). What is ECOSOC? |
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Mission
The SimplyHelp Foundation is dedicated to the mission of empowering people living in poverty through providing education, vocational training, food, shelter, accessible potable water and disaster relief, in order to facilitate sustainable development.
Purpose
We work to empower people living in poverty in order to enable people to sustain themselves and their families in their own environment.
Method
• We address structural causes of poverty.
• We work through local accountable representatives, organizations and high level
administration.
• Our programs address gender inequalities and other diversity issues.
• We enable people to meet their needs through education and vocational training.
• We distribute food, clothes, medicines and other supplies to areas hit by natural
disasters.
• We distribute donations to people living in poverty.
Values
We believe that empowering people living in poverty through providing basic human rights like food, shelter, accessible potable water, education and vocational training results in sustainable development.
We believe providing aid that corresponds to the needs of people living in poverty enables people to take control of their lives, gives hope and asserts dignity.
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The SimplyHelp Foundation (SHF) seeks to aid people living in poverty throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America, Caribbean and the U.S.. Established in 2000 as a 501 (c) (3) organization, SHF has among others received Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC of the United Nations. Since its inception in 2000, SimplyHelp has distributed more than 102 containers of food, clothing, shoes, computers, and other goods to 18 developing countries. The organization maintains a minimal administrative average—ensuring that the poor receive 90 percent of all donations. SHF follows the principle that education fortifies charity work so that recipients learn to break out of the cycle of poverty.
SimplyHelp supports educational programs that teach recipients how to develop small businesses and provides basic vocational training programs to students.
 
SimplyHelp utilizes multiple channels for collecting and re-distributing resources to the needy worldwide. The foundation collects funds from benefactors, purchases goods in a cost-effective manner, ships the items duty-free, and arranges for their distribution to the people living in poverty through NGOs and charity organizations in 18 countries. To help accomplish this, SHF has forged a spirit of cooperation between NGOs in the United States, as well as NGOs in the developing countries.
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Distribution
SimplyHelp Foundation works directly with churches, schools, charity organizations, non-governmental groups, with our SimplyHelp local NGO and First Ladies in many of the countries we serve. We ask what is needed, then supply the requested items. Most shipments are allowed to enter the countries duty-free due to pre-existing agreements made with the governments of those countries. This direct distribution method helps ensure our operational costs at their minimum.
Housing
In developing countries thousands of families lack adequate shelter. People often live in shacks made with scraps of wood, plastic, and cardboard. This type of shelter offers little protection from the elements As a result of these poor living conditions, illness and disease run rampant, especially among those who are most vulnerable: the young and the elderly. SimplyHelp Foundation partners with “Un techo para mi país” (UTPMP), an NGO in Latin America that has branches in 10 countries. Together we work to provide families in these communities with healthy living conditions. Additionally, SimplyHelp built a 9000-square foot senior center in Los Santos, Panama and two senior housing projects in El Salvador. They provide an invaluable service to this community by ensuring that their senior citizens will have a comfortable, safe place to live out the rest of their days.
Education
Education is crucial in breaking the cycle of poverty, and provides long-term and sustainable solutions to poverty. SimplyHelp Foundation sees our dedication to education
as a means to bring about permanent change in the communities where our classes are offered. To support schools, SHF ships school supplies, desks, computers, and other needed items to classrooms across Latin America, Southeast Asia and China. SHF also provides a variety of vocational training classes like computer training, tailoring classes, carpenter classes, beauty school classes and English classes in five countries around the world.
Disaster Relief
Whenever tragedy strikes, SimplyHelp is ready to send immediate assistance to those affected by natural disasters. In 2005, SHF shipped out three 40’ containers of relief aid
to Sri Lanka for the tsunami disaster. In September 2005, SimplyHelp donated $30,000 to Hurricane Katrina refuges in Texas. In December 2006, SHF donated 20 houses to the earthquake victims in El Salvador. For the recent China Earthquake SHF had a tent donation program in 2008.
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Tina Bow, founder of SimplyHelp, was born to an impoverished military family in a Taiwan still suffering from the scars of World War II. After completing her degree in business administration Tina first worked as a flight attendant for China Airlines. Four years later she married into the family that owns Chung Hsin Textile Corporation, one of the largest textile groups in Taiwan, and immigrated to the United States to begin her new life.
Despite fulfilling her childhood dream of rising from poverty to wealth, Tina began to wonder if opulent life was providing the self-fulfillment she had hoped for. Broadening her quest she started a new career as a Beverly Hills realtor resulting in significant earnings and yet Tina found she still wasn't truly satisfied or content. Tina then took on politics. But growing success in this domain failed to leave Tina truly fulfilled as she became disenchanted with the darker side of politics where human greed often reared its ugly head.
Disillusioned, Tina sought spiritual growth and began traveling alone to remote villages in Burma and Cambodia avoiding the once familiar creature comforts of five star hotels and modernization and living and eating amongst the indigenous peoples. These experiences had a profound effect upon Tina leading her to conclude that material success was not the key to personal happiness. She sold her luxury home and returned to college where she began taking classes on self-development. One of class projects was to help the needy by distributing second hand goods.
It was during this period of her life that Tina met Mario Rivera - a maintenance worker whom she discovered was also a pastor in the midst of building a church that values helping the poor. Tina and Mario soon found themselves working together on an outreach project that focused on Mario's impoverished roots in Central and South Americas. Making good use of Mario's familiarity with peoples of the region, the two managed to collect and deliver second-hand goods to poor families. When the project resulted in tears of joy from the villagers, Tina's heart and soul were profoundly and forever affected by the experience and she discovered that she was, at last, fulfilled and content.
Tina and Mario founded a charity organization called "SimplyHelp Inc" on July 6, 2000.
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The SimplyHelp Foundation is able to do its important work is because of the support it receives from it's partners. Below you will find a growing list of international entities that share in the same vision to empower people living in poverty through providing education, vocational training, food, shelter, accessible potable water and disaster relief, in order to facilitate sustainable development. Our Partners Are Listed In Alphabetical Order:
Comite De Proyeccion Social El Salvador
ECOSOC
The United Nations Economic And Social Council
County Of Los Angeles
Una Techo Para Mi Pais: Gracias Colecta
 See the Gracias Colecta Video!
Viva Panama Organization
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