Open Hands, in the last 38 years, has supported and provided initiative for many special projects. While we know that it takes many, many hands to complete big tasks, please feel free to reference the works we have participated in, which are listed below.
Individuals who have used the services of Open Hands in the past because of personal life situations are not listed here.
Active public projects supported by your donations are in blue.
Hospice of the Piedmont
Inepe, an alternative school in a barrio of Quito, Equador
Ian Robertson Fund
Tibetan Resettlement Project
Wintergreen Ski Adaptive Program
Creative and Healing Arts Institute
Nursing Students without Borders
A pilot Adult Day Care Center at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Blue Cliff Society, a Buddhist education group
Centrum, a multi-disciplinary health care experiment
The Prometheus Project, counseling for trauma survivors
Joshua Tree Stress Reduction Center
Heaven on Earth, a book on Waldorf-inspired early childhood education
The Maitreya Loving Kindness Tour in Charlottesville
Compassionate Clowns in Charlottesville
Creating Coherence, a pilot program providing scholarships for underserved populations to learn transcendental meditation
3-year renewal project for the helping professional, the Atum Workshops
Nepali for Nepali, an NGO providing earthquake relief
Blue Ridge Sufi Community
Mapuche Project, shoes for children in Chile
Shoemaking Project, Sierra Leone
Bahamian Bush Medicine (formerly San Salvador Ethnobotanical Project)
Honduran Hurricane Relief
Rocky Mountain Eco Dharma Retreat Center
Nepal School Supply Fund
Nepal Education Fund
McIntire Botanical Garden
Mission Statement: Our interest is in serving:
- people who are challenged by a life situation, illness, old age, or dying
- the care of the health care professional
- the activities of volunteers
- education and research in related areas