It is the mission, duty and purpose of the Hunger Initiative of Helping Others Obtain Destiny is to address, educate, coordinate, and provide aid and relief to eradicate chronic malnutrition and hunger on a local and global level.
It is our duty to be available when we are capable to provide one of the most important yet basic human rights to ordinary people during times of extraordinary tribulation by trying to help them to secure their humanity through the provision of food.
The right to food is a human right derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The United Nations Special Report in 2002 defined it as follow: “Right to adequate food is a human right, inherent in all people, to have regular, permanent and unrestricted access, either directly or by means of financial purchases, to quantitatively and qualitatively adequate and sufficient food corresponding to the cultural traditions of people to which the consumer belongs, and which ensures a physical and mental, individual and collective fulfilling and dignified life free of fear.”
The right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, have the physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement.
Helping Others Obtain Destiny provides education on chronic malnutrition and hunger through the dissemination of facts, charts, graphs, and statistics. We provide this information by presenting live media interviews, lectures and slideshows and written literary articles,” at schools, libraries and other public venues. These presentations focus on the causes, current efforts and solutions to chronic malnutrition and hunger. They also highlight the geographical, economical, and social aspects of chronic malnutrition. Examples of said presentations that have been given are at Tree of Life International Ministries in Chicago Illinois, Castle Motorworks Company in Broadview Illinois, other offices and public buildings around Illinois. We take advantage of various social media outlets such as discussion forums, blogs and social networking sites. Some of media outlets that have conducted and featured Helping Others Obtain Destiny. All media interviews can be viewed on the corporation’s website: www.helpingthehood.org
We also chronicle our efforts and activities on the corporation’s website. One feature that will be incorporated into the website is an educational essay written by professionals such as public health administrators, dietitians, physicians, and activists in the same or related field(s). By offering educational events as well as our publications and website, Helping Others Obtain Destiny is educating the public on subjects useful to individuals and beneficial to the community and is advocating and defending human and civil rights secured by law.
Helping Others Obtain Destiny aims to provide disaster relief aid in the form of food and water to the severely disadvantaged who are affected by either a lack of existing community resources or a lack of funding and supplies to existing local infrastructures in the time of need. Helping Others Obtain Destiny operates and focuses its resources locally and globally to communities who meet the aforementioned criteria regardless of their geographical location.
Examples of the severely disadvantaged populations would be similar to those affected by natural disasters and the displaced victims of sectarian and ethnic violence such as the devastating results of the Hurricane Katrina in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi and the refugees of Rwanda civil war in Africa.
We provide disaster relief aid through organizing volunteers to serve in affected areas by coordinating and carrying out the distribution of food and water. The provisions will be derived from our general fund and public support.
We do not fundraise for any specific organization and Helping Others Obtain Destiny is not organized solely to contribute or fundraise for any specific entity. However, at the discretion of the board of directors we may at times, choose to contribute to other organizations who share a similar mission and only if the contributions further our exempt status, with the objective to eliminate and alleviate chronic malnutrition and hunger.
One example of an organization which we may contribute to is the “Greater Chicago Food Depository” which is a U.S.-based, nonprofit, nonpartisan 501 (c)(3) tax exempt charitable organization. The Food Depository has a bold plan to meet the growing and changing needs of our community. Our Nourish Campaign includes upgrades to our existing facility, a new prepared meals kitchen and more.
Helping Others Obtain Destiny may exercise its right under law to contribute to non 501 (c)(3) organizations only on the condition that Helping Others Obtain Destiny retains control over the use of the funds and maintaining records showing that the funds are used for exclusively charitable purposes in accordance to our mission.
At times, per the discretion of the board of directors, we may provide internships or volunteer opportunities which will provide opportunities for involvement in outreach activities and programs in order to have a greater impact for change. One of the activities that volunteers may be involved in is basic education on topics such as nutrition, diet, agricultural techniques, livestock growing, and water treatment in order to promote sustainability. Such activities shall always be free of charge to participants and will not include compensation to the volunteers.
It is our goal to bring awareness from every medium possible and this does not exclude documentaries and photos of our activities, projects, programs and expeditions. By documenting and reporting our efforts we intend to broaden our outreach. These multimedia features will be recorded by our volunteers during the aforementioned activities and will be available to the public.