About Helping Hands USA
Helping Hands USA was founded by Siddiga Ahmed in late 2021 at the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic as an all-volunteer organization. Siddiga emigrated to the United State in 1998 from Sudan with her husband and two children. Like many immigrants, her accounting degree earned in Sudan was not recognized in the United States. Based on her experiences as an immigrant, Muslim woman in a post-9/11 United States, Siddiga decided to pursue a career in Social Work. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in 2016 from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and continued her studies to earn her Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work from the Joint UNCG-NC A&T Clinical Social Work program. She is now a licensed Clinical Social Worker Associate. Her objective is to provide accessible mental health counseling to immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking individuals and other under-served and marginalized person.
Helping Hands USA partners and collaborates with many community-based organizations in the Triad area, actively engaging with them in support of common needs and objectives.
Mission
Through providing support services, wellness initiatives, counseling, workshops, and programs. We strive to increase the overall well-being of individuals, families, and communities. We focus on immigrants, refugees, and other underserved communities to achieve self-sufficiency and success.
Helping Hands USA is a community-based, non-profit organization that serves refugees, immigrants, and under-served families and guides them towards the achievement of true self-reliance. Helping Hands US aims to ease these families' struggles by addressing their evolving needs. The organization will empower them through education and life skills and nurture leadership within themselves.
Vision
Providing a place where displaced and marginalized people can come together to create a safe space, where they feel secure to voice their shared fundamental needs that are a result of their status, seek, finds, and receive the needed help to satisfy those needs and achieve fair and equitable access to society’s resources.
