Helping Orphans Worldwide HOW), Inc.

Helping Orphans Worldwide, HOW's (HOW) mission is to continue to build a global community committed to providing hope,
health and education to underprivileged children and families in need.

HOW has many programs:

Helping Orphans Worldwide founded the Starfish Program in April of 2010 to provide comprehensive care to children in need. Since then, hundreds of children have benefited from life saving surgeries, routine clinical care, wound care, nutritional support and educational services.

Starfish members typically face a long road to recovery; on average care lasts approximately one year but can extend to as much as three years. During this time, HOW is responsible for any nutritional needs, medical and educational services. HOW cares for the little Starfish until they are strong and healthy.


​The HOW Gift Of Life Program provides HIV/AIDS & Tuberculosis (TB) patients with necessary medical care and further educates the wider community against the stigma of these potentially deadly diseases. ​Helping Orphans Worldwide funds life saving medications, surgical procedures, medical equipment and educational tools for distribution across Vietnam.


Based in Quang Tr​i, HOW provides families with a gift that keeps on giving; our Perpetual Giving program extends beyond the basic gift of livestock to teach impoverished families how to become "livestock farmers." Recipients receive livestock, including cows, goats, chickens, ducks and pigs as well as guidance on livestock nutrition, disease and basic care to afford financial security for generations.

Our Hunger Relief program supplies food and nutritional supplements to undernourished children and adults living in poverty across Vietnam. Local volunteers make personal deliveries, making every dollar count. As an independent program, Hunger Relief supports children and families in desperate need of nutrition.

As one of our most successful programs, your contributions have funded thousands of hungry children and hundreds of families each year. HOW would like to extend a special thanks to your ongoing support as well as to our volunteers who are well versed in the illnesses of third world countries and make the extra effort to provide the nutrition and feeding support they need, and introducing clean farming for sustainability.

​An educated community is a prosperous community. Education provides the necessary foundation for economic growth, sustainability and at its most basic level, survival. HOW is very passionate about the educational needs of children worldwide and believe that ensuring their future benefits all of us around the globe.

Costly tuition consumes most family budgets for education, leaving little to no money for supplies such as backpacks, pencils, crayons, notebooks, calculators, etc. READY 2 LEARN is HOW's latest program geared towards education. HOW supplies children in need with the educational supplies necessary to succeed.


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HOW has responsible volunteers (including the founder) on the ground to follow up and research each recipient and follow up with each program.

We have a videographer (board member) who documents each and every donation, in order to show our wonderful donors exactly where each cent of their donation is helping.

HOW has ZERO paid staff and no offices. 100% of our donors money goes directly to each program.

Thanks to HOW's transparency donors have been kind enough to reach out to us, through social media and keeping our donors informed.
We answer all questions directly and instantly.

Each program has grown and progressed but the detail is far too involved to go into detail as each program changes and grows with experience and time.

We began in 2007 and up until now (2019) we have educated doctors, and nurses about Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), provided several hundred cows, pigs, goats, ducks, pigs, school supplies, surgeries, nutritional needs, wound care supplies, medical equipment, clothing, tutors, and the list goes on.

The next big plan for HOW is to address clean water in Central Vietnam. We would like to not only provide clean water but we are working on getting the community involved to make sure each dollar of profit goes back into this program to assist in providing employment and clean water in Quang Tri, Vietnam.