Our achievements
We help Rhoda receive a small income each month. Our support has inspired her to champion older people's issues.
(c) HelpAge International/Benedicte Desrus
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.
Practical solutions
At least 750,000 older people and their families accessed our health, emergency and finance related services on 1.4 million occasions
We've also trained 25,000 professionals and 16,000 community members - including the older generation - to provide healthcare, legal advice and financial support for older people.
And we supported 2,700 older people's associations to enable older people to come together to find solutions to the problems they face.
Watch our Annual Review video
From promises to policies
Through our global network of affiliates, project partners and older people's groups, we are playing our most influential role ever in making change happen. Pension provision, for instance, is increasing across the world.
Overall, we estimate that policy changes influenced by our affiliates and partners could help up to 9.5 million older people.
This is spurred by our Age Demands Action campaign, which is led by older people and in 2011, this grew to 59 countries.
Key achievements
Here are some examples of what we achieved last year:
- We helped 2 million older people claim their first pension payment - or receive an increased sum.
- 360,000 older people and their families were helped to get through life-shattering emergencies.
- We supported 50,000 older people to fight abuse and discrimination cases with the help of 300 specially-trained older people's groups.
- 48,000 older people now receive basic healthcare.
- 5,000 older people received voluntary HIV counselling and testing service.
- Ten more organisations have become HelpAge affiliates and joined our global network.
Read more
- Find out more about older people, like Rhoda, who we are empowering around the world to champion older people's issues at the highest level.
- Download our Annual Review (1.5mb) for more on our impact and achievements in 2011.
Comment on this page
Comments submitted for this page
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!
