Overflowing Hands Inc

Overflowing hands supports various local programs and ministries in our local neighborhoods and around the globe to help children receive basic daily needs, including meals, clothing, health and medical services, protection from abuse and neglect, access to organized sports, training, youth development and activities that promote healthy lifestyles and mental wellness. The overall goal is to facilitate children, teenagers and young adults to thrive and reach their highest potential. In 2024, small groups and connection groups were funded so that children could gather weekly for leadership training, youth development, youth group activities and receive snacks and meals. Camps were funded for kids and teenagers to help them get connected and gain confidence. These activities were funded in the u.s., bahamas, madrid spain, nicaragua and panama. Overflowing hands partnered with university of kentucky dental students to send a mission team of 30 volunteers to rio grande, puerto rico, providing more than 500 children and families with dental care. Kitchen equipment was installed in a feeding center in rio grande, puerto rico that prepares meals for 200 families each week. Overflowing hands sent its first mission team (14 volunteers) to panama to support a new ministry that is serving poor and underserved communities. Meals and program services are provided weekly to nine (9) communities, serving more than 2,000 children. A grant was also provided to fund research for mental health for youth, focusing on child and adolescent anxiety and mood disorders.

Overflowing hands partners with kids around the world by providing funding for healthy meals to be distributed in hope center communities in nicaragua. "hope centers" are buildings that are transforming communities and the children they serve. A hope center can be used as a community center, a feeding center, a youth center for after-school activiites, a foster home and a church. Kids living in third-world countries go the hope centers to be safe, to play, to study and learn, be encouraged and receive hot meals. A total of (18) hope centers have been funded in the managua, nicaragua area. In 2024, 240 volunteers gathered in raleigh, nc to pack 120,000 meals in 24 hours. The packages are onemeal, formulated by kids around the world, to deliver sustaining nutrition to impoverished children where food insecurity is a daily reality. Overflowing hands funded the cost of the meals and then the packages were shipped to nicaragua from the u.s. The empowered dreamers team distributes the meal packages each month. Kids are coming to their local hope center to learn, eat and play which improves the children's chance of success in school and daily life. These meals will serve more than 5,000 children.