Our achievements

We've made strong progress in the past year.

Together with our partners, we're helping millions of older people lead more dignified, active, healthy and secure lives.

Some examples of what we achieved this year include:

Annual review 2012

Read our latest Annual Review on Flipbook below or download a pdf (1.4mb).

Making change last

Over the past year, we have continued to influence governments and international institutions to address older people's issues and promote their rights.

For example, we were active in seeing older people health needs included in the UN Summit on Non-communicable Diseases, and we continued to call for a UN convention on the rights of older people through the UN Open-ended Working Group on Ageing.

We have put ageing at the centre of the development agenda through our research, technical training to governments and other agencies, and support to our network.

This helped to secure incomes for older people, provide pensions and include older people in humanitarian assistance. We also raised awareness of ageing issues to 50 million people through our global Age Demands Action campaign.

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• Daniel samwel (20th March 2013)

  Itake this opportunity to thank Help Age Internation to support olders

• amanuel della (16th December 2012)

  i really support the work of helpage for their highly valuable contribution on breaking the yolk of poverty from the shoulder of old people. I like to support your action as a volunteer...!!! But currently I am working on the area of Young people empowerment through education, formal and informal training for all young and capacity building for street business entrepreneurs specially in shoe shine business. May God bless You all!!!

• amanuel della (16th December 2012)

  u are doing a great job with in the generation and it will pave the way for many volunteer workers to do such works in social, economic and humanitarian works ...i believe u really will bring a change in our continent in near future,May God bless u!!

• PAUL SAGNA (19th September 2012)

  I really like this organisation. Older people need our assistance and our attention.Age is a gift from God and all of us wish to live as longas possible. In Africa, there are many needs for the older people and there are many actions for them, above all in West and Central Afrca, please do the best to implement activities in that area. Thank you.

• Hodan (11th September 2012)

  Many old persons lost their family member in war, when they are unable to work anymore to earn a living, they are exploited.

• Berhanu Girmay (31st July 2012)

  I appreciate help age International.I am interesting in working social protection of older people. So would you mind you tell me how can I start the operation and How can I find sponsor in the world?
  Thank you!

• Behafta Abreha Haftu (31st July 2012)

  It is nice information doing in the age helping.
  We need to be your partner.
  There are so many vulnerable older people in our region and town currently we are working and supporting them.Every one will have an appointment to be older,Age is not a disease but gift of nature.
  Thank you!

• ocan godfrey (24th July 2012)

  i like the work of helpage international

• sheer abbas (16th July 2012)

  its very noble work which helping age is doing and i really appreciate feelings of humanity to give courage,respect,care,love to old people because one day each and every person will have to come at at this age.i silute helping age for great human being giving due privilege to olds

• Norman Mombeshora (21st May 2012)

  I find it morally inspiring that this organisation has uniquely focused on standing up in solidarity with the elderly. Is overwhelming to note how the organisation has made gigantic strides in championing the health, social and economic rights of the elderly. Keep up the sterling work and continue to spread your wings wider. In this day of HIV/AIDS, political & civil strife and economic upheavals, our elderly need more help than ever before.

• Mr Sakwe Maurice Itoe (2nd May 2012)

  I appreciate the work of the organization which is centered on improving the health,social and economic conditions of the aged.Fighting loneliness,social discrimination adds dignity and hope to them.
  In cameroon,our organization is promoting health and positive living among the aged by organizing functional adult literacy at the level of the communities.This is just one of our activities among others.Literacy has a transformation power in the older people.I suggest that,Aged International should support Adult Literacy programs which will liberate older people from ignorant,mental bondage,economic,social and political slavery.Literacy opens the doors to information,communication,empowerment,knowledge,skills etc and the results are poverty Alleviation,jobs creation through vocational knowledge and skills.Expect more of my comment.I am willing to work with you to realize the good objectives you have for the Aged in the world.

• anurag sharma (23rd March 2012)

  i hope you do very well work i pray to god do best. but i know you do work in india

• Navdha (28th December 2011)

  Hi Zena, Thanks for writing. Please contact our office in Kenya for more information on how you can support our work. Here are their details-Email: helpage@helpage.co.ke
  Tel: 00254 20 263 7854
  Thanks, Navdha.

• Zena (23rd December 2011)

  I am a kenyan and runs an organization in kibera on the plight of the senior citizens.I would like to NetworkI

• Harriet Abalo (14th November 2011)

  Yes,I totally support the efforts help age international has taken to support older persons claim their rights and have a more meaningful and dignified living when they retire from active work.This is because most often than not older persons are seen as burdens or dependents who have little or no contribution to the family or community in which they live yet and sadly forgetting their invaluable contributions made while in active work that built the today we are living in and enjoying!We"younger persons" do this forgetting that we are growing and will be old at some one time in life and will need support from those who will be young! Few governments in sub-saharan Africa have come up with welfare support systems for the age whether they could have been in formal or informal employment and when the men and women grey they do not have any concrete stand point to fall back to.Even for those who could have been in formal employments,they either die before getting their benfits in terms of pensions or gratuity depending on how it is called elsewhere or get it on a piece meal basis which makes it not very useful to them.
  It is high time governments come up with clearly streamlined policy statements that can attract programming for the older persons and budget as a means to providing social protection for the older persons.Let us join hands and support the older persons to grey gracefully!