While potable water is available in most areas in Nepal, many people still face three challenges: access, quality, and affordability. For rural areas, the cost of building and maintaining clean water sources can be prohibitive. Without private water taps in homes, people are forced to travel to public taps to fetch water. This impacts women in particular as they spend significant amounts of time collecting and transporting drinking water.

Aware of the need for dependable clean water in doTERRA Wintergreen sourcing areas in Nepal, doTERRA Healing Hands partnered with CHOICE Humanitarian to provide a solution. Now two villages have easy access to affordable, safe drinking water with over 200 homes receiving private water connections. Additionally, reservoirs were constructed, increasing available water in the area and further improving access. These projects are not the first time doTERRA Healing Hands and CHOICE Nepal have partnered to provide clean water. Together we are truly empowering Nepalese communities to be healthy, safe, and self-reliant.

In Kenya, it’s not uncommon for individuals to depend on surface water, shallow wells, and/or handpumps to provide water. Not only can these sources be unreliable, but they are also time-consuming and have safety concerns. Oftentimes, children are the ones sent to retrieve water, when they should be in school.

Working with Fairoils in the doTERRA Tea Tree and Lemon Eucalyptus sourcing area in Kenya, doTERRA Healing Hands was able to provide a reliable source of drinking water to the Mwamose Primary School. Funded by the doTERRA Europe Market, this reverse osmosis system provides desalinated water to 1,250 school children. Additionally, community members also have access to the water source, providing much-needed safe drinking water.

We love the energy you have brought to the 25 Collective! We have been working hard to keep the momentum of this program going and to maximize incentives so we can help even more people. With that in mind, we are thrilled to announce some exciting changes to the 25 Collective.

Follow the link to learn more!

2023 was an amazing year for doTERRA Healing Hands. Because of your support, students in Nepal received educational scholarships, farmers in Honduras took steps out of poverty, communities in India received expanded medical care, and many other humanitarian projects improved lives for people worldwide. Thank you for making 2023 a memorable year of impact! Check out our latest quarterly report to learn more about how your donations are empowering people worldwide to be healthy, safe, and self-reliant.

In 2023, we empowered 1,556,963 people with sourcing jobs and impacted 1,546,872 people through charitable projects in our sourcing areas!

“dōTERRA was born from the belief that pure essential oils have the power to change lives—both those who use the essential oils and those who create them. The heart of dōTERRA® has always been to source the best essential oils in the world and help the most along the way. For over 15 years, this mission has not changed. The more we grow, the more global good we can accomplish through our relentless pursuit of positive impact.”— Emily Wright, dōTERRA President, Founding Executive

Read the full report at pursuit.doterra.com on March 1.

Donations to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation from January to March 2024 are going towards projects like the expansion of the Fakhry School, a supplemental education program in Gharbia, Egypt.

Several essential oils are sourced near Gharbia—including Jasmine—and we want to enrich lives in our precious sourcing communities, starting with education. While basic education is available in Gharbia, it doesn’t always satisfy the growing love of learning.

Our sourcing partner in Egypt currently provides supplemental education through the Fakhry School in a temporary structure, providing intellectual enrichment for 450 children, many of whom are children of Jasmine farmers. With support from the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation, Fakhry Aid Foundation will construct a permanent school building and fill it with supplies for current and future students. Watch the video.

You can support this project and others like it by checking the donation box with your next dōTERRA order.

On the Incentive Trip in March 2023, the Cō-Impact Sourcing® team and Wellness Advocates saw firsthand the need the children at Mwamose School had for more space. The head teacher (like a principal) of the school, Madam Esther, explained kids were being crowded eighty to a room.

dōTERRA Healing Hands funded an expansion. Attendees of the November 2023 incentive trip got to see the newly laid foundation. The new building is expected to be completed in 2024, once the rainy season is over.

This school is in the area of Kenya where dōTERRA sources Tea Tree and Geranium essential oil and allows the kids of many local farmers and distillers who produce those oils for dōTERRA to get an education.

See the full dōTERRA Healing Hands Q4 report HERE.

Imagine what your life would be like if you couldn’t read or write. You wouldn’t be able to read these words. You’d have no way to understand the signs in your neighborhood or respond to texts from friends and family members. You likely wouldn’t be able to pursue career goals or personal dreams.

Reading and writing are essential, yet so many people go through life without learning these important skills. Silver leaders Chris and Tiffany Garvin knew this issue was affecting people in Nigeria and decided to do something about it. Working with Spell Africa International, they completed a doTERRA Healing Hands Match Program project with the goal of increasing literacy among adults in Lagos.

Click here to learn more about the Garvins’ project and how they impacted lives in Nigeria.

On 10/25 we published a fundraising request for a match funded project in Israel. The post mistakenly referenced Israel’s Defense Force (IDF). This was a genuine error. The project supported families in Israel who had lost loved ones through conflict. These families were provided with food, clothing, and emotional support.

On 12/12 the incorrect information on the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation’s fundraising webpage was brought to our attention and amended. We sincerely apologize for this oversight.

As a result, we have conducted a full review of doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation’s grant making and communications procedures and implemented additional checks and balances to ensure this type of event does not occur in the future. We are committed to continuously learning as an organization to best support our incredible Wellness Advocates.

We thank our Wellness Advocates for their generosity in supporting people, families, and communities through our match funding program.

Check out the latest from doTERRA Healing Hands with the 2023 Quarter 3 Report! Learn about recent projects and the impact you’ve made possible.

The beautiful Hawaiian island of Maui was tragically struck by wildfires on August 8, 2023, which devoured the land and claimed too many lives from this beloved community.

dōTERRA is working with Kealakekua Mountain Reserve (KMR) and local residents to raise $100,000 toward replanting 10,000 trees all over the island. You can “grab a shovel” and help plant these trees by donating to the cause during Giving Tuesday—a global generosity movement—and throughout the holiday season from November 13 to December 31, 2023.

These trees are essential to Maui’s ecosystem, and by stretching your wallet just a little wider, you can help save and restore more than just greenery to the island.

Every $10 plants a tree, and each tree will stand as a symbol of strength and healing.

Click here and donate today!

Have you seen the doTERRA Impact Guide? Launched at Becoming | doTERRA Convention 2023, the guide provides tips and tricks to help you, our Wellness Advocates, build your business with giving back in mind.

Today’s consumers care more about corporate social responsibility than ever before. The information in the NEW Impact Guide can help you build a more purpose-driven business that resonates with your customers. With the Impact Guide, you don’t have to choose between doing well in your business or doing good in the world. You can have it all.

Get the guide. https://www.doterra.com/US/en/empowered-success/impact

Check out our 2023 Quarter 2 Report for information about how we’ve been impacting the world.

The doTERRA® Hope action plan recently participated in the Parliament of the World’s Religions. This global platform dates back to 1893 and is a place to explore critical issues such as human trafficking and exploitation.

doTERRA VP of Philanthropy, Missy Larsen, coordinated with Larry Eastland of the John A. and Leah D. Widtsoe Foundation and moderated a panel as part of the Hope action plan with some of the nation’s most respected experts, including:

• Dawn Hawkins - CEO of the National Center of Sexual Exploitation

• Jerome Elam - Survivor of child sex trafficking and CEO of Trafficking in America Task Force

• Sandra Morgan - Vanguard University’s Global Center for Women and Justice

• Melissa Yao - Executive Director of the National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance

The session focused on igniting change across the world in the fight against human trafficking. Additionally, it highlighted research findings, education platforms, prevention tools, policy solutions, public-private engagement, and most importantly, survivor perspectives.

This was a great opportunity for Hope to participate in the global dialogue about human trafficking, learning about solutions and building key relationships.

To stay up to date on the Hope action plan and to learn more about what you can do to prevent human trafficking, complete the form at: https://www.doterra.com/US/en/hope-parent-trainings

Since 2016, doTERRA Healing Hands® has been combatting human trafficking. Hope is our answer to prevent modern slavery before it begins, support responsible professional rescue efforts, and help restore dignity for survivors. We recognize that rescue efforts are best left to professionals who have the training and expertise needed to rescue victims and arrest traffickers.

Unfortunately, many taskforces and agencies are underfunded which leads to critical needs for education, equipment, and technology to conduct successful investigations and prosecutions that keep predators away from children and other victims.

The Hope action plan offers law enforcement trainings to support the development of skills and tools needed to identify victims, conduct sound investigations, and effectively prosecute trafficking criminals. Recent trainings have taken place in Mesa, AZ; Atlanta, GA; Hartford, WI; Anchorage, AL; and Lubbock, TX – just to name a few!

Hollywood has led many Americans to believe that human trafficking only happens in impoverished communities or in foreign countries. While this does happen, exploitation and trafficking can take place within the walls of our own homes. With the prevalence of technology, social media, and gaming sites, predators have found ways to access children via the Internet. Because of this, many of our law enforcement trainings are centered around undercover chat techniques.

Cyberchat investigations require an in-depth understanding of predator tactics and highly-specialized technological skills. Led by the Chief Ops Director of the doTERRA Hope action plan Jon Lines, Hope-sponsored law enforcement trainings are taught by top-tier officers with decades of experience in their respective fields. We take pride in ensuring our trainings adhere to federal, state, and local standards so that officers can establish sound investigations that lead to the best possible outcome. When an online predator is caught, children who have already been exploited can be identified and provided resources to begin the restorative process. Stopping just one Internet predator can prevent countless children from being victimized in the future.

To learn more about the Hope action plan and our efforts to combat human trafficking, visit: https://doterrahealinghands.org/hope

Join us in supporting those who have been displaced by the Maui fires with emergency necessities, supplies, and accommodations, as well as in rebuilding the communities. All donations will be matched up to $100,000. As always, 100% of donations go directly to aid. Donate

Check out our Quarter 4 report for information about our latest projects and updates.

As part of the doTERRA Healing Hands global Hope action plan, we are supporting Ukraine Child Rescue. Since 2005, Ukraine Child Rescue has rescued neglected children, protecting them from human trafficking. Today they offer comprehensive services for women and children who have suffered from sexual abuse and exploitation. The organization’s CEO recently served as Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of Ukraine. Through their presence in schools and professional settings, they have become well known throughout Ukraine. They regularly receive cases from other nonprofit organizations, the Prosecutor General’s office, and child services.

Stay tuned for more updates from Ukraine Child Rescue and other organizations we’re working with through the Hope action plan.

At the end of March, dōTERRA Healing Hands® welcomed participants of the Sheltered Conference 2023 to dōTERRA campus! This annual conference is run by the National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance (NTSA), a network of service providers focused on improving services and increasing access to care for survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Over the course of the conference, participants attended various courses and networked with like-minded individuals working to provide healing for those impacted by human trafficking and victimization. The dōTERRA Healing Hands Hope booth was a great place to stop as attendees were able to learn about the Hope action plan, experience essential oils, and receive an AromaTouch Hand Technique.

In February, Utah hosted the NBA All-Star weekend. This exhibition game welcomed tens of thousands of people in a celebration of basketball. Due to the large crowds, this type of event is a marketplace for human traffickers. This is a problem that plagues large events and that law enforcement is constantly working to address. On February 17 and 18, doTERRA Healing Hands® through the Hope action plan was able to be part of the solution.

doTERRA Healing Hands joined forces with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Salt Lake County Unified Police Department, Utah County Sheriff’s Office, the Utah Attorney General’s Office, and the Utah Statewide Information and Analysis Center in an operation focused on victims of human trafficking involved in the commercial sex trade (CST). Through this operation, law enforcement used undercover chat platforms to interact with 11 commercial sex workers. Nine of those individuals chose to leave CST and accepted either financial, mental health, or chemical dependency assistance through service providers. Additionally, victims provided law enforcement with enough information to initiate criminal cases against several individuals.

On February 6, 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, heavily impacting the individuals and communities in the area. doTERRA Wellness Advocates responded quickly and are now rallying support to aid those communities. Your donation to their Match projects will be matched by doTERRA Healing Hands so you can give confidently knowing 100% of your donation will go directly to help those impacted by the earthquake. Please consider donating to one, or all, of the following projects or submit your own project application today.

The mission of the Renand Foundation is to create sustainable communities across Haiti and eradicate child slavery. The Renand Foundation aims to accomplish their mission by providing education, quality healthcare, secure housing, and vocational skills training.

This mission resonated with Wellness Advocate Andis Tamayo, who reached out to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®️ and its Match Program to create a larger impact. Andis raised a total of $40,900, which constructed a school in Lamandou, Haiti, allowing 300 students to attend and providing 25 jobs to local Haitians.

Thank you, Andis, for engaging in good, supporting children, and letting doTERRA Healing Hands assist you in your humanitarian efforts.

Check out our Quarter 3 Report for information about how we’ve been Engaging in Good.

A child who doesn’t have access to food is often significantly impacted in other areas of life, affecting education, safety, and obviously health.

Ocotillo Foundation focuses on providing daily rations, as well as other supplies for children in India. Wellness Advocate Kat Brown was moved by the organization’s mission and wanted to get involved. Her project focused on providing rations and supplies to Afghan refugees. To expand her efforts and impact, she completed a Match Program project through the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®️.

According to the UN, over 20,000 Afghan refugees are living in India. Kat’s project impacted over 1,000 refugees.

Thank you, Kat, for engaging in good.

Wellness Advocates recently had the opportunity to help with Farm Up Jamaica on our recent incentive trip.

They aimed to help Jamaica reduce its food imports, increase exports, create jobs, increase agri-entrepreneurship opportunities, and help reduce crime and poverty by putting idle hands to idle lands. Farm Up Jamaica achieves this by educating youth and distressed farmers in Organic Climate-Smart Agriculture, transitioning them into partnerships with local farmers and diaspora landowners, and creating agri-entrepreneurship by guaranteeing markets for them to sell to. The long-term effect will create micro-economies island-wide, which will have macro effects for the country.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® provided funds that enabled Farm Up Jamaica to expand its pineapple farm. doTERRA® Wellness Advocates and staff provided volunteer labor to kick-start the project.

At doTERRA®️ Leadership Retreat 2022, we displayed the mobile crime unit doTERRA Healing Hands®️ helped fund to fight trafficking in the Mesa, Arizona area. A mobile crime lab maximizes law enforcement’s ability to arrest and prosecute traffickers, uproot those producing and distributing child abuse materials, and more. We have the opportunity to fund a retrofit in Oregon for $100,000! Please donate.

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doTERRA®️ leaders Kindra Adair, Lindsey Elliott, and Cheri Evans recently returned from a humanitarian trip to Belize. Kindra reports, “We had an amazing experience in Belize and plan to go back every year forever to keep growing what has been started.”

These amazing women each hand-carried 100 Emergency Hygiene Relief Kits to Belize to distribute as part of their service project. They also presented scholarships to the school children. Without the scholarship fund, families of these children would not have the means to pay school tuition.

Derrick Pitts—the Belizean host and leader over this project—said the beneficiaries have received many hygiene kits from other groups in the past, but ours from doTERRA were by far the best they’ve ever had!

Sri Lanka is famous for its tea. Nuwara Eliya especially has many tea plantations. Tea plucking is traditionally done by local Tamil women, who were brought to the island as indentured labor and are both overworked and underpaid. Because of this, most of their families live in poverty, with restrictions on education and housing.

The Eliya Association aims to put an end to such practices, and Wellness Advocate Mallory Brown is working with them to do so. When she connected with doTERRA Healing Hands®️, we were eager to be part of this project.

Through the Eliya Association, the women who pluck the tea were able to go through an apprenticeship program in organic farming. With this certificate, they can pursue a more stable income and help bring their families out of poverty. Many of these women are the first in their families to leave the plantations.

Because of Mallory Brown and generous donations from you, one full class of the Eliya Association’s apprenticeship program was funded. This included daily transportation, organic seeds and planting tools, lunch, and a work stipend to cover income loss. With your help, we assisted 26 women, who can now rise and better their lives.

With the new year well on its way, we wanted to take a moment to thank you again for your generosity during doTERRA®️ evolve | connection 2021. Our Wellness Advocates raised over $145,000 in donations for the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®️—with 100% of those contributions directly aiding those in need.

This is just a small glimpse into the impact for good you made possible through your donations in 2021.

doTERRA Healing Hands®️ is proud to work with Wellness Advocates to empower people and communities around the world. Recently, Wellness Advocate Tiffany Province completed a Match Program project to support communities in Haiti.

Tiffany saw the immense need Haitians have for secure housing and raised a total of $23,749.25. These funds empowered five women in Haiti to build and repair their own homes.

Thank you, Tiffany, for engaging in good and allowing doTERRA Healing Hands to be a part of your humanitarian efforts.

With struggling economies, supply chain challenges, increased unemployment, and health concerns, families across the world have fought to meet their daily needs. In India, many individuals faced food insecurity even before the pandemic, with more and more now struggling. Food for Life has been working to combat food insecurity for over 15 years, and with the help of Wellness Advocate Nousha Salimi they made a large impact on the people in Vindravan, India.

Through the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®️ Match Program, Nousha doubled her impact and raised $20,335. These funds were used to feed 800 families for an entire month.

Thank you, Nousha, for allowing doTERRA Healing Hands to be part of your humanitarian efforts.

It costs $5,000 on average to rescue one person from a human trafficking situation.

Funds are required to professionally train task forces and law enforcement on how to safely and responsibly perform rescue operations, investigate tips, identify victims, and extract survivors. But even after survivors are safely separated from traffickers, significant expenses are needed to help with arresting traffickers, reuniting survivors with family, and repatriating them to their home countries when applicable.

Because rescue operations are expensive and demand extensive and intensive training, the best way you can support this part of the fight against human trafficking is by donating.

Every penny you donate to Hope goes directly toward fighting human trafficking. Your support ensures lives are saved, perpetrators are deterred, and predators are disrupted.

A grim reality of human trafficking, especially child sex trafficking, is it can and does happen frighteningly close to home. The stories often go like this: a child meets a “friend” online, developing a friendly or romantic relationship. The “friend,” who’s actually a trafficker, manipulates the child into participating in sexual activities with them and other adults. And crucially, the trafficker convinces the child to keep it all a secret from parents. This predatory relationship can go on for years without anyone knowing.

Prevent modern slavery before it begins. Just $5 can train a student to protect himself or herself from human trafficking. Every donation makes a difference, no matter the amount.

Donate Today!

Hope is our action plan to end modern slavery. We fight human trafficking and victimizing from all angles. Everyone deserves the freedom to hope. Advocates of Hope—people just like you—are taking action in three key ways. Prevent: Prevent modern slavery before it begins. Rescue: Support professional, responsible rescue efforts. Restore: Help restore dignity for survivors. Each of these aspects is critical in ending modern slavery and victimization. Visit https://loom.ly/JeFh_mI to learn more.

Slavery isn’t a ghost of the past. Right now, more than 40 million people—children, women, and men of all ages—are enslaved into labor, military service, or prostitution.

Since 2016, doTERRA Healing Hands®️ has collaborated with public and private organizations to eradicate modern slavery.

Hope is our action plan to fight human trafficking with three steps: prevent, rescue, and restore.

Join the fight to end modern slavery by visiting https://doterrahealinghands.org/hope today.

For over four years, doTERRA Healing Hands®️, Co-Impact Sourcing®️, local community members, the Ministry of Health, and development agencies have been working to open the Sanaag Specialty Hospital, a nonprofit regional hospital in the city of Erigavo.

The Sanaag Specialty Hospital is the first functioning healthcare provider of its kind, providing amazing services to tens of thousands of people living and working in the heart of Somaliland’s frankincense resin harvesting area.

Join us this December as we raise $2 million for the lifesaving work being done by the Sanaag Specialty Hospital.

This month, when you place any 200 PV loyalty order, doTERRA®️ will give $5 of your order to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®️, which will go to the Sanaag Specialty Hospital! Enjoy 5 mL bottles of Frankincense, Myrrh, and Holiday Love for free as you empower positive, sustainable change in Sanaag.

Visit doterrahealinghands.org/sanaag to learn more and start your 200 PV order.

As you think about giving back this holiday season, you can trust that your generous donation to doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®️ will empower others! Building the underdeveloped, healing the unwell, educating the ambitious, protecting the innocent—your gift represents the pure love of humanity.

100% of your contribution goes directly to aiding those in need because doTERRA®️ covers all overhead costs. Thank you for your continued support in empowering people and communities worldwide and making a positive difference. Visit https://doterrahealinghands.org/donate to donate in honor of Giving Tuesday.

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The mission of HELP International is to empower people to fight global poverty through sustainable, life-changing development programs. We’re lucky to be partners with HELP International in the fight against poverty and the empowerment of people. Your donations support this mission.

HELP International and doTERRA Healing Hands®️ have common values, such as being globally responsive, partnering with local organizations, and co-creating change, while also respecting what doesn’t need to change.

The PRASAD Project Inc. supports vulnerable communities in India. They asked doTERRA Healing Hands®️ for assistance with a project to help a community of 300 families who had been heavily impacted by COVID-19. Because of your donations, we were able to offer food, water, cleaning products, and medical equipment.

PRASAD Chikitsa introduced an affordable water filter to more households in several villages, providing clean water to the residents and preventing waterborne diseases. They also set up a seed bank to conserve seed varieties and diversify the families’ diets, as well as provide quality fruit tree saplings and any needed resources to protect them. Cleaners and disinfectant were given to the hospital, along with masks and gowns, PPE kits, a new fogger machine to disinfect rooms, and other supplies.

It’s thanks to you that we can help with projects like this. Every donation you make, every bottle of doTERRA Hope®️ Touch or doTERRA®️ Spa Rose Hand Lotion you buy, goes directly to important causes. Please continue helping us in our mission, and thank you for all you’ve helped us accomplish so far.

doTERRA Healing Hands®️ has always been committed to empowering individuals and communities to help themselves, their families, and their communities. Through efforts like microcredit lending, mentoring and education programs, and partnerships with Co-Impact Sourcing®️, we’re helping people build better lives for themselves and those around them.

Follow us this month as we highlight ways you can get involved with initiatives supporting self-reliance, as well as what you can do in your own home!

Looking for ways to #engageingood?

Volunteer in your community by signing up for CERT: Community Emergency Response Team. This FEMA program is designed to educate volunteers (you!) about disaster preparedness and trains response skills such as fire safety, search and rescue, and team organization. Some cities even offer the program for teens and kids. For those living outside of the USA, look for similar programs in your country.

Gather your teams, families, or friends and search for ways you can make an impact and support disaster relief efforts!

The Fuller Center for Housing frequently constructs homes internationally. In the US, they largely do home repairs, under their Greater Blessing program. In 2020, the Fuller Center of Utah County completed 16 smaller “encouragement” projects. About half the people who benefited from these projects were referred by one person named Jeanne.

When the Greater Blessing program returned, it made sense that their first project would be for Jeanne, who’s known as a generous woman loved by all her neighbors. doTERRA®️ supported this project, sponsoring the day and providing many volunteers. Together, the team and the volunteers repaired and replaced Jeanne’s unsafe steps and front porch.

Projects like this one benefit both the receiver and the volunteers who contribute their time and efforts. The volunteers from doTERRA felt immense benefits that day and were thrilled to help such a generous and well-loved individual.

We need Wellness Advocates to help distribute or connect us with trusted organizations in communities to give out much-needed 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits.

This is an excellent way to serve as doTERRA®️ teams. Each kit was previously purchased and donated by people like you.

Click here to get involved!

In the aftermath of Hurricanes Iota and Eta, clean water was in short supply. Working with doTERRA Healing Hands®️, villagers in Cahabon, Guatemala, got access to clean water. In addition, 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits and Days for Girls Kits were provided to them. Over the course of two days, almost 800 women were educated with Days for Girls curriculum.

We can’t help with projects like this without you. Together, we are changing lives for the better.

Every year, natural disasters kill 90,000 people and affect nearly 160,000,000 worldwide. Each time a fire, hurricane, tornado, flood, earthquake, or other crisis happens, individuals and families find themselves in dire need.

In these moments when communities are in their worst moments of crisis, your hands make the difference!

Wellness Advocates worldwide are completing Match Program projects to support children.

Wellness Advocate Mariah Page and her family completed one such project in 2020. They partnered with Imani Milele Children in Uganda, an organization dedicated to rescuing and educating orphaned and vulnerable children. Thanks to donations, they opened and furnished classroom blocks, as well as funded bathrooms and on-campus housing for teachers and their families.

You can support projects like this by donating to a Match Program project geared toward supporting children. When you donate, the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®️ matches your donation, doubling your impact.

Did you know it only takes $428 for a family to move from poverty to self-reliance? That’s $42 a month or $1.17 a day.

Every dollar donated to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®️ creates about $5 of economic impact for a family in need.

If you want to assist a family working toward self-reliance, consider giving a monthly gift through the Loyalty Rewards Program. You could make all the difference in the lives of a vulnerable family, particularly in Co-Impact Sourcing®️ areas.

One of the seven areas of impact for doTERRA Healing Hands®️ is self-reliance.

A foundational principle of doTERRA®️ and the ultimate goal of doTERRA Healing Hands is to empower people to help themselves, their families, and their communities. To accomplish this, mentoring, education, microloans, and other kinds of support can make all the difference.

Join doTERRA Healing Hands and inspire those on a path to self-reliance. Your donations, projects, and inspiration might provide the motivation for someone to better his or her life.

In 2019, approximately 5.2 million children under five years old died, mostly from preventable and treatable causes. Together, we can make a difference.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®️ supports multiple Match Program projects every year, such as Wellness Advocate Mira Binzen’s efforts to support Mind Body Solutions in their mission to use yoga to help people living with disabilities, terminal illness, chronic pain, trauma, and more.

Thanks to projects like this, people around the world are finding health solutions.

In rural parts of Nepal, a tradition called chhaupadi is practiced. It teaches that menstruation is unhealthy and unlucky. Because of this, menstruating women and girls are banished during their monthly cycle—often in unheated sheds, where they’re exposed to the elements and other dangers.

In Kailali, Days for Girls and doTERRA Healing Hands® are working to educate communities on healthy female functions, with the goal of ending practices like chhaupadi. Over 400 individuals attend their training and received Days for Girls Kits, with reusable supplies to help these girls and women better manage their periods.

With your support, we can continue spreading education and brining an end to dangerous traditions such as chhaupadi.

Are you looking for ways to empower women worldwide? We make it simple: purchase doTERRA® Spa Rose Hand Lotion. 100% of the purchase price goes to the cause, so you know you’re having a real impact.

In 2021, donations to the. doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® supported the construction of a new MamaBaby Haiti midwifery school in Cap-Haïtien.

Because of purchases and donations, we can support organizations like MamaBaby Haiti, a nonprofit birth center and health clinic that provides a safe place for Haitian women to receive natal and maternal care.

doTERRA Healing Hands® teams up with you and other collaborative partners to empower people worldwide, making positive and sustainable change.

On World Charity Day, September 5, we thank you for engaging in good with us!

Donate today—every penny of every donation goes toward help someone in need.

Uganda is experiencing its third lockdown because of COVID-19, causing problems for many residents and delays for important updates like clean water wells. Wellness Advocate Lisa Cozzi has been donating clean water wells for over eleven years. She teamed up with doTERRA Healing Hands® to build a well in the village of Nabulezi.

People need clean water to drink, cook, bathe, clean, and support the basic functions of life. Because of donations from you, we helped provide a source of clean water to this village. It’s helped over 5,000 households, including a local orphanage. This well will be the gift that keeps on giving and support the residents of the village for years to come.

Support for projects such as this one is impossible without you.

One of seven areas of impact for doTERRA Healing Hands® is clean water and sanitation.

The need for clean water is universal. Unfortunately, access to dependable clean water is limited for much of the world’s population. Having a source of clean water in a community changes everything. It reduces or eliminates many diseases and illnesses. It means people—primarily women and children—don’t have to spend hours each day hauling water and are free to earn wages or attend school. Clean water may even mean previously unavailable industries and jobs can become a reality.

You can make a difference in many lives by supporting clean water and sanitation projects by donating.

Yellow Mandarin essential oil, when taken internally, soothes the nervous system, supports healthy immune response, and promotes digestion.*

For a limited time, both Yellow Mandarin and Red Mandarin are give-back offerings from doTERRA®! You can enjoy 5 mL bottles of each, and 100% of the purchase price will be donated to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®.

Give back through your purchase of Yellow Mandarin and Red Mandarin here!

One of seven areas of impact for doTERRA Healing Hands® is anti-human trafficking.

doTERRA® ensures small-scale farmers and harvesters are treated ethically—minimizing the risk of labor trafficking—doTERRA Healing Hands supports a range of domestic and global organizations and projects to prevent, rescue, and provide aftercare for those who have been sexually exploited.

Your donations support these efforts to protect, rescue, and rehabilitate survivors. Join us in fighting human trafficking with the doTERRA Healing Hands comprehensive HOPE model.

For a limited time, Red Mandarin and Yellow Mandarin are give-back offerings from doTERRA®! You can enjoy 5 mL bottles of each, and 100% of the purchase price will be donated to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®. Act now, as these will go fast.

Together, we’re empowering positive, sustainable change worldwide!

doTERRA® has woven ethics and sustainability into the fabric of its business through Co-Impact Sourcing® and doTERRA Healing Hands®.

Providing the world’s highest quality essential oils isn’t an easy proposition. However, with its mantra of “sourcing the best and helping the most,” doTERRA found a way of addressing the root cause of poverty issues—not just symptoms. By generating jobs with fair and on-time payments, safe labor conditions, and long-term partnerships, we’re empowering people to address their circumstances and problems.

When necessary, we also offer a hand-up—rather than a handout—by implementing community-driven solutions donated by generous Wellness Advocates through the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation. We treat the people we assist as stakeholders rather than as beneficiaries because every person has a role to play in protecting the planet and humanity. doTERRA knows it starts with driving positive, sustainable change across the business and within the local community we’re part of.

Thank you for being part of doTERRA and helping us create maximum positive impact!

July 30th was World Day against Trafficking in Persons. We have a responsibility to raise awareness about human trafficking victims and their situations, as well as promote the protection of their rights. We need your support.

100% of the purchase price of doTERRA Hope® Touch and all donations to HOPE go directly toward fighting human trafficking.

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This remarkable oil blend not only has an uplifting aroma, but it also has an uplifting purpose. Use doTERRA Hope® Touch proudly, knowing your contribution is making a difference in the world.

The full purchase price ($20.00) of each bottle of doTERRA Hope Touch is donated to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® ,* which supports efforts against human trafficking worldwide.

A harsh truth is human trafficking lurks in every community, in every nation, and at every level of wealth. Victims can be any age, race, gender, or nationality. They’re forced or coerced by traffickers—who use false romance, violence, manipulation, or empty promises of well-paying jobs—to entrap victims.

Now you can join the fight to end exploitation and all forms of human trafficking through HOPE! This July, follow doTERRA Healing Hands® to learn more. Then share on your social media, make a donation, educate others, or volunteer your time. We want to know how you’ll #engageingood.

And don’t forget, join us on July 30—World Day against Trafficking in Persons—by sharing how people can get involved.

The doTERRA Healing Hands® comprehensive HOPE model includes aftercare as a collaborative impact platform for victims of human trafficking. This means once rescued, survivors of sex trafficking have access to safe, trauma-informed resources to heal. Rapha International provides safe houses for survivors in high-impact areas worldwide, where survivors can recover and learn life skills that make the integration back into society easier.

doTERRA Healing Hands and Rapha International will unveil a beautiful new aftercare facility in Haiti in the coming months. Your support is critical in making projects like this one possible!

Dahlia’s Hope was inspired by one of our own at doTERRA®! Faith started working at doTERRA after surviving sex trafficking. Her courage (and support from law enforcement) led her to her escape and prosecution of her traffickers. You can support Dahlia’s Hope through the doTERRA Healing Hands® comprehensive anti-trafficking HOPE model and help survivors like Faith receive trauma-informed services on the road to recovery.

Dahlia’s Hope offers critical aftercare services for survivors of sex trafficking by providing holistic, individualized care in safe residential and outpatient treatment environments, bridging the gap between institutionalized care and independent living and leading to happy, fulfilled lives.

Your support ensures that sex trafficking survivors have a safe place to heal and receive the support they need on their paths toward independent living and self-reliance.

Healing journeys for those who have been trafficked require trained experts and aftercare campuses with a clear understanding of diverse cultures, effective resources, and certifications in comprehensive trauma-informed care.

Join us in supporting those who help survivors regain lives of sustainable freedom and independence. Follow us this week to learn about ways you can join us in the fight against human trafficking through aftercare.

Do you know how it feels to freeze under pressure? Empower yourself emotionally and physically as you build confidence and healthy boundaries through Smart Defense—brought to you by the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, a collaborative doTERRA Healing Hands® HOPE partner.

Smart Defense is a self-defense training course designed specifically for women and girls ages 12 and up. Working closely with highly trained mixed martial arts experts and law enforcement professionals, the Elizabeth Smart Foundation customized the Smart Defense curriculum by handpicking self-defense techniques and skills. Their objective is to give women and girls the best chance to either stop a potential threat or escape an attacker.

The Ute Mountain Ute-White Mesa Community is one of Utah’s eight federally recognized tribes. They’re located south of Blanding in Grand County, which has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19. doTERRA Healing Hands® shipped 500 masks and 200 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits fir distribution in the tribe.

We at doTERRA Healing Hands can only make a difference in communities like this one with your help. If you’d like to make a positive impact in your community and are aware of a need, connect with doTERRA Healing Hands to distribute emergency kits at https://doterrahealinghands.org/get-involved/distribute.

The reality of human trafficking is scary to acknowledge. It can feel overwhelming—like it’s too big of an issue for an individual to make a difference. However, that’s not true.

Being aware and acknowledging there’s a problem in need of fixing is a great first step. And here are five other things you can do in your home and community to fight human trafficking through prevention!

How will you #engageingood?

doTERRA Healing Hands® created the Hope to Belong initiative to address one of the root causes of trafficking and exploitation. Children in the foster care system are incredibly vulnerable, with a 60% chance of being trafficked.

You can help children find loving families so they can thrive and grow in protected, permanent homes. More than 50% of children who have the opportunity to share their story in a professional video find their forever home within six months. Help protect them from homelessness and exploitation.

Visit http://americaskidsbelong.org/doterra/!

Most human trafficking victims are children. More than half of survivors report they met their trafficker online, often never meeting in person. It’s time to change the patterns that makes it possible for children to be targeted like this.

The first step in creating change is building awareness by sharing information. Many are unaware of the dangers that await children online or what signs to look for. By educating children (and their families) about rights and the dangers of human trafficking, children are less likely to be manipulated or coerced. Sharing images, statistics, graphics, and videos takes only a moment, but it can go a long way in the fight against human trafficking.

Missy Larsen, doTERRA® vice president of philanthropy, and Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie discuss the Anti-Slavery Collective and how she supports change-makers like doTERRA Healing Hands®. Follow us this month as we prepare for the global movement on July 30, which is World Day against Trafficking in Persons!

Remember, 100% of the price of doTERRA Hope® Touch and all donations to HOPE go directly toward fighting human trafficking.

To view the live event visit: https://www.facebook.com/doterrahealinghandsfoundation

Many people either lost their homes or were evacuated for extended periods of time in the aftermath of the fires in the state of Washington. Working with Wellness Advocate Jessica Clark and her team, doTERRA Healing Hands® donated 100 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits to firefighters and wildfire evacuees in the Longview, Washington, area. Jessica’s team distributed the kits to displaced families, first responders, fire crews, loggers, and others working to clear debris left in the wake of the fires.

We at doTERRA Healing Hands love seeing how our kits and Wellness Advocates are making a difference for these communities.

For 29 years, Save the Children in Romania has been fighting to create safer, friendlier environments for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Many struggle to obtain even basic human needs. Because of your donations, doTERRA Healing Hands® was able to help. Together we provided necessities like coats, shoes, backpacks, school supplies, and food for these children.

Because of these supplies, many children can leave the house in the winter to go to school and play outside. A lack of warm clothing and shoes made this difficult in the past. Now, they have better access a normal life.

doTERRA Healing Hands® is always glad to find other organizations that share our ideals when it comes to supporting the well-being of children.

June 20th, 2021 was World Refugee Day. Approximately half of the refugees in the entire world are children. Refugees are vulnerable and in great need. They have few, if any, possessions and are often at the mercy of the elements and foreign government agencies. All this can be even worse for children, who don’t always have the resources to continue their education and can have a difficult time finding medical services when they’re needed.

doTERRA Healing Hands® is determined to support children in need around the world, including refugees and their families. We’re always looking for ways to help these vulnerable communities. However, we can’t do this without your help. It’s only with your generous donations and willingness to be a part of our mission that we can make a difference.

If you’d like to be part of our community or want to see how you can help refugees around the world and vulnerable children in your own community, visit https://doterrahealinghands.org/how-we-empower/people-communities/supporting-children

In a number of communities along Cancun’s outer regions, people live in incredibly poor circumstances, and their kids go to school without even proper shoes and still must walk long distances to find transportation. Many children are unable to attend school because of these and other unfortunate circumstances.

This year, during the doTERRA® Incentive trip, qualifying Wellness Advocates participated in an impactful initiative to help improve this situation in El Porvenir, Mexico. They helped build 48 bikes, providing them to the school children in the area, along with 300 backpacks stuffed with school supplies. ​The bikes and supplies encouraged higher school attendance.

Thank you for choosing to engage in good and empower communities around the world with us!

After the La Soufriere Volcano began erupting on April 9, residents of the island of St. Vincent were forced to shelter in place, in schools, in private homes, or wherever they could go to avoid falling debris and ash. On April 13, WHO reported that between 16,00 and 20,000 islanders had evacuated. The entire island was left without clean water and electricity.

doTERRA Healing Hands® sent 200 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits to the occupants of the island. The airport was closed because of ash in the airspace, so a shipping company in Miami was integral to getting the eight boxes of kits to the St. Vincent port. Kits were distributed to many of the evacuees in need.

Connect with doTERRA Healing Hands to help distribute emergency kits at https://doterrahealinghands.org/get-involved/distribute if you know of a community that’s in need.

Children with disabilities are often stigmatized in Rwanda, Africa. This stigmatization, along with lack of mobility, often prevents children from attending school and interacting with their peers. There’s an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 disabled children under 18 who have no laws to protect or assist them.

With your generous donations and constant support, the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® has assisted Angel Rider with providing wheelchairs to disabled children, ages ranging 5–18. These wheelchairs are specifically designed for rough terrain—without sidewalks or paved roads. Since 2015, Angel Rider has given hundreds of wheelchairs to children in need.

What an incredible cause we’re engaged in together! We’re empowering positive, sustainable change in the lives of these children in Africa.

Thanks to donations large and small, children across the world are receiving medical support, attending school with books and computers, learning how to manage their changing bodies, and even finding their forever families through videos. These are just a few of the ways doTERRA Healing Hands® is working with you to support children.

Are you passionate about supporting children worldwide? If so, visit this link so that, together, we can empower the children of today to become the leaders of tomorrow.

Hear a special message from Missy Larsen, VP of Philanthropy and Community Impact here!

Because of you, doTERRA Healing Hands® was able to support the Flying Kites Mobile Library and Remote Learning Program which provided educational resources to 67 teachers and 3,312 primary school students.

When schools in Kenya closed because of the pandemic, thousands of students had no way to continue their education, with the most vulnerable of these students already facing significant learning barriers. Falling behind in school would have furthered the disadvantages and life setbacks. Partnering with 67 primary school educators, the Flying Kites team launched the Remote Learning Program to help these students stay in school.

Because of your support, doTERRA Healing Hands® helped build a school in Cambodia. As of March 12, 2021, the school is officially open to the community. Right now, 50 children between the ages of five and seven will be starting school for the first time, and they’re excited to do so!

This school will open up new opportunities for the community by educating the children. Most of the parents in the area are illiterate and have no formal education. Giving their children a path forward is incredibly important.

doTERRA Healing Hands® is committed to supporting children. We invite you to join us throughout the year in protecting, educating, mentoring, rescuing, and sustaining children throughout the world.

Follow us on social media this month as we highlight ways you can be involved with initiatives supporting children, as well as what you can do in your own home!

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As COVID-19 spread around the globe, frontline medical staff everywhere were overwhelmed and needed support. In Taiwan, Wellness Advocates saw that many frontline workers’ hands were cracking and peeling. Across the country, Wellness Advocates mobilized to hold a charity event, donating doTERRA® Spa Rose Hand Lotion to medical staff.

Through their successful fundraising efforts, Wellness Advocates donated 6,300 bottles of Rose Hand Lotion to 80 hospitals around Taiwan, engaging in good in their communities.

Hawaii has a large population of homeless people currently. In response to great need, Wellness Advocates Jennifer Swalwell and Norm Sun requested 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits from doTERRA Healing Hands®. When they realized most nonprofits were closed because of COVID-19, they decided to distribute the kits themselves. They delivered 101 kits to homeless camps near Wai’anae, Oahu. Going the extra mile, they even returned to deliver dog food and supplies that they purchased at their own expense.

The humanitarian efforts didn’t end there. The Sun family stopped in Denver on their way home, where they distributed products to a homeless shelter in Aurora, Colorado. Once they were back home in Washington DC, they distributed more kits to homeless camps there. They have plans to distribute more kits to homeless populations in Baltimore and other places.

Jennifer also made essential worker bags for healthcare workers. The bags and AromaTouch® sessions were provided to about 950 local nurses throughout March and the beginning of April.

If you’re aware of people who are in need in your community, connect with doTERRA Healing Hands to distribute 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits at https://doterrahealinghands.org/get-involved/distribute.

Sam lost both of his parents when he was only six years old. Suddenly without guardians or even a home, he was forced to survive on the streets of Kambala, Uganda.

But all that changed when he found sanctuary at the Little Denmark shelter. The shelter currently cares for 50 homeless people who have leprosy or polio. Many who are alienated from society find relief, protection, and care at this shelter.

With support from doTERRA Healing Hands®, repairs and additions to the shelter were made, allowing the shelter to continue helping people get the care and education they need to lead more successful and comfortable lives—including Sam. Twenty years after losing his parents, he’s moved out of the shelter and is employed.

doTERRA Healing Hands® has helped people worldwide improve sanitation, get access to clean water, expand education, and improve health practices. Knowing this reputation, Hands on Hope reached out to doTERRA Healing Hands for assistance in helping a family in Baja, Mexico. The family of five lived in a one-room space without an indoor toilet or kitchen facilities. Every time it rained, they had to worry about flooding.

Hands on Hope focuses on one family at a time, consulting with them when determining what will most help the family progress and create better health, which has been shown to help break generational poverty. Working together, Hands on Hope and doTERRA Healing Hands provided this family with a simple yet safe and sanitary home. It has a concrete floor, small kitchen, and indoor bathroom. They’re now able to grow their business and invest in educating their children. The peace of mind and confidence of having stable and secure housing has had and will continue to have a powerful, lasting impact on this family.

We at doTERRA Healing Hands feel lucky to have had the opportunity to assist this family as they improve their lives and futures.

When a family member is enduring cancer treatments, it can be difficult for everyone involved. This hardship is heightened when the person going through treatments is a single parent.

Michelle’s Love is an organization that provides meals for the families of single parents who are going through cancer treatments. The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® recently donated to help its members with their mission. Michelle’s Love was then able to provide more meals for families in need, as well as help pay for gas cards, utility bills, rent or mortgage, and other necessities.

doTERRA Healing Hands is always looking for opportunities to assist people who are struggling and was thrilled to help Michelle’s Love with the good they do.

The Marie Curie NICU is the best in Romania, with the most difficult cases in the country sent there. In a given year, the NICU cares for 400 or more newborns. Its breast milk bank is the only one in the country, exclusively serving the unit’s patients. However, decreased donations because of COVID-19 have made it difficult for the unit to purchase necessary supplies, like single-use bottles to feed the babies.

That’s where the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® stepped in to help. Through a Match Program project, sufficient funds were raised to provide sterile single-use bottles for the entire 2021 year. Now more than 400 babies in the unit will have access to better care and have a better chance of survival. doTERRA Healing Hands is glad to have helped make a positive impact in the care of these precious newborns.

A fire in Medora, North Dakota, destroyed an apartment building, displacing 74 people. doTERRA Healing Hands® sent 100 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits that were distributed to the evacuees. The leftover kits were given to occupants of a domestic violence shelter.

You can help support vulnerable individuals in need of help. If there’s a need in your community, connect with doTERRA Healing Hands to distribute emergency kits at https://doterrahealinghands.org/get-involved/distribute

Accessing basic healthcare resources can be a challenge for many around the globe. From building medical clinics in Somaliland to increasing access to physical and mental health resources in the developed world, doTERRA Healing Hands® is dedicated to serving rural areas and domestic communities in need worldwide.

Since 2010, the focus of doTERRA Healing Hands has been to serve those in need. With your help, we’ve been able to serve thousands of people in 88 countries and 45 states.

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to see how doTERRA Healing Hands and others are engaging in good in global health initiatives around the world.

“You are the sunlight in my day.
“You are the moon I see far away.
“You are the tree I lean upon.
“You are the one that makes troubles be gone.”
—Champagne S. Baker

Happy Mother’s Day to all who love and support children throughout the world as mother figures! We’re grateful for you as you empower others to build positive, sustainable lives and communities.

Around the world, we need to help and support one another as we work to find effective health solutions.

Air pollution, mental health issues, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, malaria, and dengue fever are just a few of the major health concerns facing our world. You can become a voice of support and an advocate of change by better understanding global health concerns.

You don’t need to travel to faraway places or create a new organization to make a difference. You just need to start with a desire to be healthy, take steps to realize that desire, and share your health with those around you—in your home and community.

To hear a special message from Missy Larsen, VP of Philanthropy and Community Impact, click here!

Nearly a dozen yoga studios and 170 people came together to raise money for the Hospice Casa Sperantei Foundation, an organization that offers free medical support for terminally ill patients in Romania. Each medical center under the foundation’s banner provides physical, mental, and spiritual support to adults with cancer diagnoses and children with degenerative diseases. The goal is to create communities that are supportive of those in need.

With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic came a greater need for disinfectants. A lack of such supplies meant the adult day center could be open fewer hours of the day, which negatively impacted patients psychologically.

With money raised by participants and the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®, enough disinfectants were purchased for the clinic in Braşov, Romania, to last the entire year. These supplies allowed usual activities at the center to be sustained and patients to receive the support they require.

Because of insufficient services and resources, women in Haiti die in childbirth at a higher rate than anywhere else in the western hemisphere. This unfortunate truth is why Wellness Advocate Jennifer Gallardo started MamaBaby Haiti, an organization that provides a safe place for Haitian women to receive compassionate and attentive care from skilled midwives.

A doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® grant funded an updated mobile clinic vehicle and ambulance to transport expecting mothers. The grant also supplied a generator for the birthing center, which will provide adequate power. doTERRA® proudly facilitated these updates for MamaBaby Haiti, as its members are saving lives with their work.

Brigham Young University Athletics recently completed a service project for the Utah Valley Refugee Center. They collected items from the community for refugees. As part of this service project, doTERRA Healing Hands® donated 150 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits to the cause.

doTERRA Healing Hands is always happy to help meet the needs of a community when we can. If you’re aware of a need in your community, please connect with doTERRA Healing Hands at https://doterrahealinghands.org/get-involved/distribute to distribute kits.

Access to clean water and appropriate sanitation practices change lives. People who once had to fetch water for survival can pursue new prospects. Clean water and sanitation help prevent disease, create education possibilities, increase job opportunities, and much more.

doTERRA Healing Hands® understands the downstream effects of clean water, which is why it’s one of the seven areas of impact that we focus on to create lasting change.

doTERRA® means “gift of the earth.” doTERRA Healing Hands® is dedicated to giving back, and you can also make positive, sustainable change as a wise steward of the earth in your own home and community.

In honor of Earth Day, doTERRA Healing Hands is emphasizing clean water and sanitation this month. Take a few minutes with your family to be part of the solution by reviewing these simple ways to conserve water in your lives and home.

1. Turn off Faucets: Never let water fun needlessly as you was or rinse dishes, wash your hands or face, brush your teeth, or shave.

2. Use Every Drop: Learn to repurpose water. One easy way is to capture the water you use to rinse fruits and veggies and deposit it in the garden. Do the same while you wait for your hot water to come on.

3. Shorten Your Showers: use a kitchen timer to time your showers. Aim for five minutes or less.

4. Water by HandL Consider watering by hand if you have a small garden area. Those who manually water with a hose typically use 33% less water outdoors compared to those who use an automatic irrigation system.

5. Be Smart with Dishwashing: Scrape dishes instead of rinsing them before loading, and you’ll save up to 10 gallons a load.

Follow us on Instagram to see how others are engaging in good and how doTERRA Healing Hands is creating positive, sustainable change.

Did you know a school in Haiti had to close early so the kids could go retrieve water? But by putting a well nearby, now the school can stay open longer and the kids can get the education they’re needing because they don’t have to walk two hours every day to get water for their families.

We sit down in this podcast episode with Rob Young, doTERRA® Founding Executive, to talk about why he’s passionate about clean water projects and learn more about how doTERRA Healing Hands® works to bring clean water to communities in need.

Click here to listen to the episode!

Communicable diseases are responsible for a greater number of deaths in many countries than nearly anything else, which means, as simple and basic as it seems, proper sanitation and hygiene save lives.

Through their Latrine Training Program, Engage Now Africa—with the support from doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® —is working toward the goal of eradicating open defecation. As part of this effort, they build public latrines and handwashing sinks at open marketplaces, serving thousands of people per day.

Additionally, their training and education about hygiene and sanitation has resulted in thousands of families building their own latrines.

The wildfires in Oregon left significant devastation in its wake. To expedite the healing process, doTERRA Healing Hands® donated and sent out 160 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits. These kits were distributed by Colectiva de la Comida in Portland, Oregon.

doTERRA Healing Hands is always looking for ways to help people recover from disasters and help begin the process of recovery.

For more information on how you can engage in good in the doTERRA Healing Hands disaster relief program visit: doterrahealinghands.org/get-involved/distribute

Infants born with congenital heart disease often experience developmental delays. These babies thus have to spend a lot of time in the ICU.

In Arizona, Molly King, Wellness Advocate rank Silver, stepped up to help. Molly teamed up with the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®, completing a Match Program project to purchase and provide 10 therapeutic play mats to the CVICU, specifically infants and children recovering from life-saving open-heart surgery. Having access to play mats gives these little ones therapeutic playtime, which can help with developmental delays.

Did you know children in so many places worldwide have to travel for miles every day, foregoing education and childhood joys, to retrieve as much water as they can carry for their families?

Clean water and sanitation are often taken for granted. To hear a special message from Missy Larsen, VP of Philanthropy and Community Impact, click here!

Follow our social media pages as we highlight ways in which you can support global clean water and sanitation projects, as well as things you can do in your own home!

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Water is the essence of life. But people in developed nations often take this precious, life-giving resource for granted. Children in so many places worldwide have to travel for miles every day, foregoing education and childhood joys, to retrieve as much water as they can carry for their families.

This problem is solvable, and we can all be part of the solution! Follow us on social media as we highlight ways in which you can support global clean water and sanitation projects, as well as things you can do in your own home!

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Sommaya Thing, a diligent and hard-working farmer, was struggling to provide for her five children and sick husband and had to take her children out of school. Thankfully, doTERRA® and CHOICE Humanitarian were able to help. With a wintergreen distillation unit now in the village, Sommaya has a regular source of income.

Sommaya says, “I feel like better days are coming for us. The wintergreen distillation unit in the village is becoming a boon to our lives and a regular source of income for me. As a result, I am able to provide for my family. The kids are going to school on a regular basis. I thank doTERRA and CHOICE for bringing job opportunities to people like me with no education or skills.”

doTERRA is committed to the fair, ethical treatment of the farmers we work with and are proud to be a part of stories like Sommaya’s.

Founded by Wellness Advocate Kristin Van Wey, Let’s Empower Women (LETS) believes that every woman can be empowered and in tune with her body, regardless of age or location, as well as that she can learn to appreciate, understand, and manage all phases of her cycle. One of the primary tools of the LETS program is a beautiful bead bracelet, created by teams of local artisans. The Lunar Essential Tracker bracelets are a fundamental part of their education initiative, as they empower women (and the men who support them) to track their reproductive cycles.

doTERRA Healing Hands®, with LETS, believes we end human trafficking, child abuse, and poverty one person and one bracelet at a time. The commitment and passion of LETS for the cause has truly empowered us and many others.

In April 2020, a massive ice jam caused major flooding in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. According to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, the flood caused $520 million CAD in damages. With approximately 1,500 commercial and residential properties destroyed and over 10,000 residents displaced, the need for disaster relief was immense.

doTERRA® Canada chose to engage in good by donating 72-Hour Relief Hygiene Kits and $15,000 CAD. These donations were given to the Wood Buffalo Food Bank, which then provided food and water to displaced families and individuals.

Part of our mission to empower women is helping them get access to opportunities to support themselves and their families. In Indonesia, our Citronella and Patchouli essential oil partner recently funded the purchase of 15 sewing machines so women in the community could learn to sew and sell products.

Along with that, the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® assisted with funding materials that allowed the women who were recently trained on the sewing machines to make 5,000 face masks. The masks were sufficient for two communities of our Patchouli and Citronella essential oil farmers. Making the face masks generated work and income for these women. It also provided protection for farmers in the doTERRA®️ network.

On March 12, 2003, Elizabeth Smart was rescued and reunited with her family after being kidnapped and enduring nine months of abuse. Unfortunately, most human trafficking stories don’t have such an ending. Hundreds of thousands of people go missing annually and are never found.

doTERRA Healing Hands®️ is joining the Elizabeth Smart Foundation and committing to find them all. Through the HOPE model, we challenge exploitation by preventing human trafficking, rescuing victims, and helping survivors find healing.

One way you can join the effort is by donating at the link below. You can also participate with us in a 3.3-mile hike on March 13th, commemorating Elizabeth’s rescue and recognizing those who hope to be found. This distance is how far Elizabeth was forced to hike the night she was abducted.

We hope you’ll join with us in one of these ways. Together, we can and will find them all!

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The kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart was one of the most followed child abduction cases of our lifetime. On June 5, 2002—at just 14 years old—she was forced to hike 3.3 miles to a camp above her home, where she endured a nine-month nightmare of control and sexual assault. She was rescued on March 12, 2003.

Today, Elizabeth is a global leader campaigning against sexual assault and exploitation in all forms. Although, every resource was available during the search for Elizabeth, she recognizes that many do not. doTERRA Healing Hands® supports the Elizabeth Smart Foundation’s goal to “find them all.”

Join us this week on social media as we take a deeper dive into this issue, commemorate the day Elizabeth was found, and highlight ways in which you can get involved.

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Today is International Women’s Day! This year’s theme celebrates women leaders who are empowering other women. doTERRA® and doTERRA Healing Hands® have pursued this mission from the beginning.

We’re grateful for the millions of women leaders in the global doTERRA family who source and test essential oils, guide their families in living healthy lifestyles, and engage in good in their communities or worldwide.

Click here to view a message from Missy Larsen, Vice President of Philanthropy and Community Impact.

Celeste Mergens had worked with a family foundation in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, where the orphanages were overcapacity because of historic familial violence in the area. Just before returning from Nairobi, Celeste saw that girls were sitting on cardboard boxes for several days each month—often going without food—during menstruation.

With her eyes opened to situations like this worldwide, Celeste created Days for Girls International, seeking to empower women and girls by providing access to and education about feminine hygiene supplies. In 2015, doTERRA Healing Hands® joined forces with Days for Girls in the hopes of furthering its mission of empowering women in communities worldwide. Today, Days for Girls—with support from doTERRA Healing Hands—has changed the status quo for more than 1.8 million girls and women in 144 countries through menstrual care solutions, health education, and income-generating opportunities.

Days for Girls International and doTERRA Healing Hands have been working to end menstrual shame and debilitation for every girl, everywhere, period.

March 8 is International Women’s Day! All month, we’ll be highlighting women leaders who are empowering other women, which is one of seven impactful areas of focus that we at doTERRA Healing Hands® are passionate about.

Follow along on social media as we highlight some amazing women and powerful stories in honor of this International Women’s Day.

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Leslie Sams, a Premier Wellness Advocate with doTERRA®, saw a need in Siha, Tanzania, and decided to do something about it. The Siha health facility has grown since its construction in 2012. In January 2020, three new wards were built, but the hospital couldn’t afford outfitting or provide medicine for even the most common ailments in the area.

Leslie completed a Match Program project with the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® for UboraTZ in order to deliver supplies of medicine to the hospital—enough for one year. The supplies will help reduce the amount of patients transported to faraway facilities, decrease infant and maternal mortality rates, create a safer work environment for the hospital staff, and much more.

We at the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation are extremely glad we had the opportunity to help provide much-needed supplies to a community in need.

The SOS Children’s Villages in Romania support vulnerable children and young people in their communities, providing therapy, education, care, and families for children who have no parental guardians. The children live in a house together, cared for by an SOS mother, with the goal of helping them grow to be healthy, lead normal lives, and become independent adults.

Wellness Advocate Anamaria Ionescu wanted to provide funds for a house that had recently lost its SOS mother due to unexpected health problems. To expand her efforts and impact, she completed a Match Program project through the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®. With funds from the project, the house covered the costs of food, clothing, and hygiene supplies for a year, and the children were able to benefit from therapy.

doTERRA Healing Hands loves seeing positive changes in the lives of those who are vulnerable and in need, especially children.

When people are discriminated against in society, it can be incredibly difficult to find a proper, dignified place. In Hungary, discriminated individuals include Roma girls and families, the elderly, and those with disabilities. However, Stichting Antwoord is looking to change this. The organization holds summer camps for such individuals to help them gain a stronger presence in Hungarian society and achieve better lives.

With donations from doTERRA Healing Hands® and others, Stichting Antwoord can continue holding these camps and helping many people, giving them support and the opportunity to talk to others and raise their self-esteem. Together, we’re transforming lives and building people up to be contributing members of society.

Approximately 1,762,450 individuals are diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States. With this overwhelming statistic, it can feel like there’s not much a person can do to make a real difference in the lives of those with cancer. But that startling number didn’t stop Nikole Mock, a Wellness Advocate from North County, San Diego, from engaging in good.

Nikole knew of the many services the American Cancer Society offers, but she also knew that many her community weren’t receiving those services. One such service is the Hotel Keys of Hope℠ program, which works with Extended Stay America to help alleviate the emotional and financial burdens of cancer patients. This program provides free to deeply discounted hotel stays for patients who are living away from home while seeking treatment.

Nikole set up a matching grant project with doTERRA Healing Hands® and the American Cancer Society, which raised $1,562 for the Hotel Keys of Hope program.

“The Hotel Keys of Hope program saved my life. After six months, I was so tired of living out of my car, staying at friends’ houses, and asking for favors, all the while in cancer treatment five days a week. I was at my wit’s end and prayed for somewhere to stay—I couldn’t do it any longer. So when I learned about Extended Stay America’s lodging program in partnership with the American Cancer Society, I knew my prayers were answered.”—Hotel guest and cancer survivor

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers are too often tired and anxious. They’re on their feet all day, being exposed to the virus and working around the clock. To provide mental health support and relief, doTERRA Healing Hands® partnered with Tip It Forward and provided 200 Holistic Care Kits to healthcare workers and others in need across nine different organizations. These kits gave these healthcare heroes the tools to step back and enjoy a small break from the stress and anxiousness.

With help from the Holistic Care Kit program, Tip It Forward has been paving the way for incorporating holistic health practices into clinics that serve low-income communities. They want to increase access to holistic medicine by making it easy for people to incorporate treatments and regimens into daily routines. In 2021, Tip It Forward plans to train providers in care kit protocols and curriculum so they can then train their patients. The hope is for Tip It Forward to distribute at least 200 more kits in 2021.

There are so many ways to pursue the pure love of humanity with doTERRA Healing Hands® this month.

Visit doterrahealinghands.org to learn more about how to connect, fundraise, distribute 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits, make donations, purchase doTERRA® Spa Rose Hand Lotion, or support an organization of your choice with the Match Program.

No matter how you choose to share your heart and passion with others, remember that small acts—when multiplied—can change the world. So this month, share your heart in whatever way you’re inspired.

Click here for a message from Missy Larsen, doTERRA Healing Hands VP of Philanthropy and Community Impact

The Wonder Garden in Dobrich, Bulgaria, is maintained by young individuals with different disabilities. This nonprofit garden is self-sustaining and provides salaries for their workers by selling vegetables and flowers, allowing these young people to support themselves with their own work.

This year, through a partnership with the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®️, the Esseterre distillery gave the Wonder Garden two new trailers. The staff will use these trailers for storage and administration purposes. In addition to the trailers, Esseterre also provided two new greenhouses to increase production and revenue.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation always appreciates seeing what our partners achieve as they help others.

After years of suffering as a victim of sex trafficking, this survivor found herself struggling to reintegrate into a society that doesn’t sufficiently support survivors. Fortunately, she was put into contact with someone who helped her get a job with doTERRA®️. Despite trials and mistakes, she’s been able to truly begin the process of adjusting and thriving.

We’re so proud of all that doTERRA does to assist those in need, allowing them to lift themselves up and build lives in which they can thrive.

Click Here to listen to her story.

This January, we’ve shared about just a few of the global organizations and projects we support in order to prevent, human trafficking, rescue survivors, and provide aftercare to those who have been sexually exploited. We hope you’ve learned more about what doTERRA Healing Hands® is doing and what you can do to prevent human trafficking. Let’s continue to #engageingood and actively fight against this terrible crime.

Click here to view doTERRA Healing Hands most recent social media post about Hope.

In impoverished Kenyan areas, women can find it difficult to support their families. When women are widowed or are single mothers, they’re the sole breadwinner for the family. They may turn to prostitution if the cost of training for gainful employment is out of reach and they feel there’s no other option.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® matched donations to Smile Star’d Enterprise and contributed to 10 women in Kenya being trained to sew. This training has provided these women with a sense of dignity and empowerment. They can now work at shops, factories, or schools and contribute to their communities.

Education is one of the most powerful gifts that anyone can be given. It can’t be taken away and can always be built upon, as these Kenyan women have found.

We all want to belong! Hope to Belong is a doTERRA Healing Hands™ initiative dedicated to preventing human trafficking by helping the most vulnerable in our communities.

Did you know children without families are often on a tragic path that can leads to homelessness, sex trafficking, addiction, and lives in the justice system? Join us in being part of the solution!

Amazing children who are overcoming sad, difficult backgrounds need your help. Follow the link to find videos of children who are available for adoption and take a moment to help spread the word by sharing a video! Your donations support the creation of these videos.

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In 2019, Freedom Now International (then Freedom Now Africa) conducted an anti-trafficking operation, which led to the rescue of 14 girls. However, they realized more had to be done. Hundreds of victims were still out there, needing help. Knowing they couldn’t do it alone, Freedom Now International reached out to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation happily provided funds for a new project and investigation. Thus, Operation Black Mamba was initiated, which rescued 96 female trafficking victims. Many traffickers were arrested at the same time.

We also helped fund aftercare for every one of the rescued girls. Chris Gay, president of Freedom Now International, stated how invaluable the support from the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation was—to the success of their operation and the recovery of the survivors.

Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the US. This terrible crime happens locally and globally. We can all make a difference in the fight against it!

doTERRA Healing Hands™ focuses on:

-Prevention through education, protecting our most vulnerable through the new Hope to Belong initiative.

-Rescue, supporting US law enforcement professionals and global rescue organizations.

-Aftercare, supporting comprehensive trauma-informed care for survivors.

Your donations to doTERRA Healing Hands support all these initiatives. Together, we can end human trafficking through prevention, rescue and aftercare!

Approximately 55% of survivors report meeting traffickers online. Share this graphic to raise awareness in honor of National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Also consider implementing these practices in your homes and communities to protect children from dangers.

“The 3Strands™ Global Foundation training has reinforced much of what I already knew about human trafficking, but it also gave me some real tools I can use in my local community to help bring about and strengthen awareness of this horrible evil.”—Paula Collins, doTERRA® Wellness Advocate

Wondering what you can do to help prevent human trafficking? Start by taking the PROTECT human trafficking prevention education and awareness training from the 3Strands Global Foundation.

In this program, you’ll learn important terminology and information that will help you identify and report this horrible crime against humanity. These training activities also explore the why of human trafficking and helps you understand the complex impacts of trauma that victims experience.

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The San Antonio Regional Hospital in San Bernardino County, California, began a Community Outreach project that would deliver supplies to the Salvation Army in nearby Ontario. Along with the food and clothing being donated, the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® contributed 100 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits, delivered by Wellness Advocates Eric and Tina Little. All the donations were given to families and individuals who are currently homelessness.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation is always grateful for the opportunity to help support people in need.

January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. doTERRA Healing Hands™ continues taking a stand in the fight against human trafficking.

doTERRA Healing Hands comprehensive HOPE model is dedicated to human trafficking prevention, rescue, and aftercare. Stay with us all month to find out ways to join us in the fight. Together, we can change the world for the better!

Happy New Year!

Are you as excited as we are to use the lessons of 2020 to make a dynamic 2021? We look forward to empowering sustainable change with you, in our own communities and throughout the world.

2021 #happynewyear #healinghands #engageingood #empoweringchange #doterracaresd

Ever since COVID-19 became a worldwide pandemic, people in Nepal have had a difficult time gaining access to and affording food. Because of lockdowns in the country—especially in Kathmandu Valley—many have lost jobs and been unable to acquire food to feed their families.

In May, the Long Yang e.V. organization began distributing food packages to Nepalese families in need. With donations from the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® and others, more than 400 families in Kathmandu Valley, as well as an additional 50 Raute families, have been given food packages. Thanks to generous donations, it may be possible to expand food distributions and help more communities and families, giving more Nepalese people hope and empowering them with ways to cope with the pandemic.

Even amid COVID-19, LETS hasn’t stopped their vital education and hygiene outreach in Haiti. They’ve focused on making sure communities stayed healthy and well during the pandemic, as well as reviewed fertility tracking so that unwanted or unplanned pregnancy goals could be maintained. Since the onset of COVID-19, LETS has educated over 400 new women, men, and youth (ages nine and older). These individuals also received bracelets, and the LETS instructors have followed up with them.

On top of all this, LETS has manufactured 4,200 bracelets to be used locally and sold on the world market and to other nonprofit organizations. They’ve also cultivated, maintained, and harvested one acre of majok seeds for the bracelets, eliminating the expense of outside sources. LETS employed 16 local, full-time employees in Port Salut as instructors, artisans, manufacturers, and farmers.

We’re proud of what our partners LETS have achieved and look forward to seeing what else we can accomplish together.

After the fires in California this year, many were left in great need, especially the sizable homeless population. Wanting to help, the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® shipped 150 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits, which Wellness Advocate Laura Mullet distributed to those without a home in her area.

During Thanksgiving, 100 of the kits were given out at St Paul’s Episcopal in Benicia, California, as part of their Feeding the Communities project. The other 50 kits were distributed at Opportunity House in Vacaville. Opportunity House offers a resting place for homeless individuals, providing cots, pillows and blankets, showers, and food.

We at the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation appreciate seeing all the good that can be achieved when people work together to support others.

In West Virginia, the Reining Warriors organization strives to create a safe and positive ranch environment for members of the armed forces and their families. The organization believes horses can help heal heroes through equine-assisted programs. Wellness Advocate Sonya Fullen, a leader at Reining Warriors, knew that she could make a large impact on the organization with support from the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®.

Together, Sonya and the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation raised $11,330 through a matching grant project. These funds were used to build a covered tack room and tie area for the equine-assisted therapy program, which primarily works with local children and veterans who have physical, emotional, and developmental needs. Since the structure’s completion, six veterans have completed the eight-week horsemanship program.

Thank you, Sonya, for engaging in good in your community and including the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation in your humanitarian efforts.

Today is Human Rights Day! Human Rights Day this year celebrates those who ensure human rights are central to recovery efforts from the COVID-19 pandemic.

While doTERRA® always guarantees that small-scale farmers and harvesters are treated ethically, this year we’ve increased the focus of projects and initiatives from the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® to ensure human rights don’t suffer during this time of critical need.

Within the first two months of the onset of COVID-19, doTERRA provided nearly $2 million in cash and PPE donations to respond to global need. Part of this response included support of financial and volunteer resources for Days for Girls International and their Masks4Millions campaign, which provided millions of homemade fabric masks to hospitals, clinics, and healthcare professionals worldwide.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®️ has been working with Mentors International to help people become self-reliant since 2012, providing a total of $7,462,824 in loans to individuals around the world.

Maria, who is a single mother and is the primary caregiver for her parents recently had to quit her job as a special needs teacher to focus solely on caring for her family. In order to supplement her income she decided to start a business selling gifts and trimmings. The early stages of her business struggled due to a lack of customer service and business training. Through the lessons she learned from Mentors International she was able to expand her business and improve her customer service department. Maria now describes herself as a “woman of goals, with a desire to move forward and progress.

During April, May and June of this year, Mentors international gave out 11,931 loans, creating 13,335 jobs and assisting 32,069 families. Together, Mentors International and the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation have impacted individuals in Guatemala, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, and Nepal.

With help from the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® , Rising Star Outreach provided food and medicine to leprosy colonies all over India in three phases. This effort was especially needed now because of COVID-19, which has caused food insecurity around the country.

Rising Star Outreach gave timely supplies to 25,040 people in the leprosy colonies of Tamil Nadu and Bihar. The organization also fed and provided medicine to 36,380 people in 166 colonies. Each family of four received enough rice, potatoes, spices, dal, and medical supplies to last for 14 days. In total, 61,420 individuals were benefited because of Rising Star Outreach’s efforts.

Wellness Advocate Pamela Cristina Zúñiga Acedo recently completed a matching grant project in Costa Rica, focused on improving the health of families in poverty. Pamela has been engaging in good with the organization Edunámica, which works with low-income families and provides scholarships to high-achieving students for secondary school.

Pamela, who has been a Wellness Advocate for four years, saw that these families could benefit from doTERRA® essential oils and wanted to share her love of the oils with members of Edunámica. Together with the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®, Pamela raised $1,972 (USD) worth of products, which were donated to the families of Edunámica.

Thank you, Pamela, for engaging in good in your community and sharing your love for doTERRA products with those around you.

This year the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® celebrated World Kindness Day 2020 with Leon Logothetis

Last year, doTERRA® went to the Food & Care Coalition in Provo, Utah, to deliver 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits and sack lunches, prepared by doTERRA employees. During the visit, we learned more about the scale of homelessness in Utah County and the vast need for affordable housing.

As a result, doTERRA has committed significant time and funding, through the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation, to help the Food & Care Coalition build Candlelight Villas, a permanent complex that will provide greatly needed supportive housing in Utah County.

Candlelight Villas will have 72 one-bedroom units, a garden, an outdoor gathering space, and a brand-new doTERRA Service Center. This center will provide a space for Wellness Advocates, employees, and members of the community to participate in service opportunities. Candelight Villas will be a truly unique place of kindness.

We hope that you all celebrated World Kindness Day this year and thank you for engaging in good in your communities around the world.

Watch this for more information about the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation and its collaboration with the Food & Care Coalition: Click Here

doTERRA® celebrates World Adoption Day

doTERRA® celebrates World Adoption Day, because every child needs a family. Sadly, children without families are trafficked at dramatically higher rates. Children in the foster care system are incredibly vulnerable, with a 60% chance of being trafficked.

Because of this, the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® launched the Hope to Belong initiative to prevent child exploitation. By supporting the Hope to Belong initiative, you can make a positive impact on foster care children in your community and around the United States.

Wellness Advocate Christy Hald recently completed a matching grant project with the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® to help alleviate hunger in India. According to the 2020 Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations, 189.2 million people—or 14% of India’s population—are undernourished. The Hope Venture, which is a nonprofit focused on bring dignity and hope to the most disadvantaged people in the world, aimed to combat this problem by opening food centers in the Agaram neighborhood of North Chennai and in Kaladra, Malenadu.

With the support of the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation and the amazing efforts of Christy and her team, $15,059 (USD) were donated to the Hope Venture. These funds were put to use distributing 10,000 meals to children in India. When COVID-19 hit India, the funds were also used to continue paying the cooks and tutors at the education centers in India, as they’ve provided support and stability during these uneasy times.

Thank you, Christy, for continuing to engage in good and for involving the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation in your humanitarian efforts.

In May 2019, Mentors® International started the Savings Box program. Many women start the program with about two cedis, which equals about three US cents. They’re starting small, and saving even that little amount is a sacrifice.

Some of these women are experiencing peace of mind from savings for the first time. They don’t have a spouse to support them when times get tough during droughts, natural disasters, or sicknesses. These women feel better prepared to face the future.

With support from the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® and Mentors International, the women in Ghana have learned to save for the future. They’re better prepared to take care of their families when uncertainties arise.

The Port of Beirut explosion on August 4, 2020, sent shockwaves around the world. The explosion killed at least 203 individuals, injured more than 6,500, and left 300,000 homeless.

Wellness Advocate Anita Delhaas-Van Dijk wanted to help, knowing the people of Beirut needed support. Anita had worked in Lebanon with Syrian refugees for nearly five years and started her own nonprofit named Re-Starter to benefit Syrian refugees in the Netherlands, her home country. After the explosion, Anita reached out to her contacts in Lebanon and created an action plan for her nonprofit to help those who were badly affected by the terrible disaster.

Together, Anita and her team and the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® raised $11,896. The donations converted an empty college dorm into temporary housing, as well as provided food for 150 people who were homeless as a result of the explosion.

“The families and individuals we hosted have had the chance to recover from their injuries in comfortable lodgings. They’ve had the chance to start dealing with the trauma caused by the blast and are now beginning to look to their next steps.”—Anita Delhaas-Van Dijk

Thank you, Anita, for engaging in good not only in your own community, but also the communities in Lebanon.

Wellness Advocate Becky Rogers recently completed a matching grant project, raising $28,732 with the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® for Families Mentoring Families. Becky, her husband, and their four children are currently on the ground in Ghana, engaging in good and changing the lives of many people.

The funds from Becky’s grant project will be used to purchase property in Kumasi, Ghana, for a new orphanage. This orphanage will not only act as a place of refuge for those without a family, but it’ll also serve as an educational oasis. Many individuals in Ghana lack the opportunities to break the cycle of poverty because of minimal access to educational opportunities. At this orphanage, children and others in the community will be able to learn and use business, literacy, and self-reliance skills.

The mission of the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation is to empower people and communities worldwide to make a positive and sustainable change. Thank you, Becky, for empowering individuals in Ghana and including the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation in your humanitarian efforts.

Over five million acres have burned in California, Oregon, and Washington during the 2020 fire season, which has been the most active season on record. Fires have burned areas that have been untouched for decades. With thousands of families and individuals evacuated and entire towns destroyed, the need for disaster relief has been immense.

Amid red skies and ash-filled air, Wellness Advocates from these states contacted the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® to participate in its disaster relief program. Even though many of these Wellness Advocates were fleeing the fires themselves, they chose to work with the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation to support others.

In total:

• 3,954 kits were distributed by 34 Wellness Advocates in Oregon.
  
• 150 kits were distributed by 2 Wellness Advocates in Washington.
  
• 2,320 kits were distributed by 15 Wellness Advocates in California.
  

Thank you to all the amazing Wellness Advocates who participated in this disaster relief effort and engaged in good in their communities.

Two of the most difficult challenges people in developing countries face are access to education and to food and clean water. In Kenya, UNICEF estimates that more than 1.2 million primary-school-age children don’t attend school. Similarly, nearly 69% of Kenyans live in a state of food insecurity.   To help combat this, Tumaini Children’s Charity started and continues to fund Tumaini Brooks School, which has been supporting the community in Kiambu, Kenya, since 1999. Tumaini—Swahili for hope—is a place of refuge for anyone in Kenya. It not only offers quality education, but also access to food that’s provided by the school.    Wellness Advocate Hannah Ellis was touched by Tumaini Brooks School’s mission of hope and knew that she could make a massive impact. With help from the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®, Hannah and her team raised $23,052.57 for Tumaini. These funds were used to install solar panels, providing reliable access to electricity, as well as powering the school’s main generator, which pumps water from the school’s borehole. The funds were also used to provide food to different communities in Kenya that are facing increased struggles as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.    “Over time, Tumaini has become a place of unity and community. We make a difference one child at a time. This work is rich with purpose and hope, and the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation has enabled that hope and supported our purpose.”—Hannah Ellis

According to the United Nations, one out of four girls, ages 15–19, is unemployed, uneducated, or untrained compared to one out of ten boys in the same age bracket. The United Nations also estimates that 435 million women and girls will be living on less than $1.90 a day by 2021.

This year, the theme for International Day of the Girl is “My Voice, Our Equal Future.” The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® proudly celebrates International Day of the Girl and will be focusing on brightening the futures and amplifying the voices of adolescent girls around the world. We support the mission of International Day of the Girl, which includes:

• Living free of gender-based violence, harmful practices, and HIV and AIDS.
• Learning new skills toward the futures girls choose.
• Leading as a generation of advocates who are accelerating social change.

As we continue to affirm girls and women worldwide and support their power as change-makers, we’re also proud to continue supporting many organizations that assist and educate young girls.

Lynn Lavezzari and Nicole Moultrie, with help from the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation®, supplied the necessary materials to give 60 women work knitting blankets, sweaters, and hats that will be distributed to Syrian refugee families in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Syria.

These 60 women meet every other week in their knitting groups to turn in their finished work, be paid, and receive new yarn for their next projects. They also have time to socialize, share struggles, and encourage one another.

We’re thankful to Lynn and Nicole for their humanitarian efforts and support of the Hungry Hearts International Knitting Project.

One of the seven areas of focus for the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® is empowering women, specifically to get an education, pursue a career, and meet their healthcare needs. Jamie Rathjen, the founder of Guiding Star Cedar Valley, is devoted to this mission in her community. Guiding Star Cedar Valley works alongside life-affirming organizations to provide authentic and affordable healthcare to empower women, help children, and enrich families.

Jamie and her team, working together with the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation, raised $11,116 (USD). These funds led to the development of a program called Mission Womanhood. In Jamie’s words, this Guiding Star Cedar Valley program “effectively connects with women at all phases of their reproductive journeys, affirms them, acknowledges their natural abilities, and builds lasting relationships that keep them in our care model.” The funds also provided support kits to pregnant women, as well as those who are trying to get pregnant, who lost a pregnancy, or who just had a baby in the United States.

Thank you, Jamie, for engaging in good and empowering women through your wonderful organization.

With destructive winds up to 150 miles per hour, Hurricane Laura caused significant damage in Louisiana and Texas when it made landfall on August 27. As of September 6, reports say 25 lives were lost in Louisiana because of the hurricane and nearly 900,000 homes and businesses were without power. Damages are estimated at nearly $25 billion (USD). Lake Charles—home to about 78,000 residents—was hit incredibly hard by the storm: a chlorine plant caught fire, trees and electrical poles were ripped from the ground, and so much more.

Gillian Bertrand, a Wellness Advocate from Lake Charles, was evacuated during the storm, and she’s now focused on rebuilding her community. Gillian reached out to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® disaster relief program to distribute 100 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits to those in need.

Alongside Gillian, Krystal Degenhardt also participate in the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundations disaster relief program. Krystal, together with her team were able to distribute 100 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene kits as well as mold spray and hand cleaner to community member in Lake Charles, Leonville, and Carencro Louisiana.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation is proud to support Gillian and Krystal and the many other Wellness Advocates who are engaging in good in their communities around the world.

The 2020 Oregon wildfires season has been one of the most destructive in history. The Alameda fire wreaked havoc on many communities, destroying entire towns and affecting nearly 42,000 individuals. Not only have many lost their homes and belongings, but the air quality in Oregon, Washington, and California has now been labeled as the unhealthiest on the planet, according to global rankings.

Wellness Advocate Christy Jackman from Salem, Oregon, has been working to provide relief to those affected by the fires through the disaster relief program. Christy’s two sons are firefighters on the front lines, working diligently to contain and stop the spread of these wildfires. Christy has received doTERRA® products and 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits and distributed to firefighters and evacuees in the area.

Thank you, Christy, for working on the ground and engaging in good in your community.

The Lunga Lunga project is located along the Indian Ocean near the Tanzania River. The doTERRA Co-Impact Sourcing® team uses this site for a 300-acre model farm, distillation facility, and small-scale farming cooperative that produces essential oil crops. Not only does this site provide rich agricultural resources, but it’s also in a region of Kenya that has been historically underserved. The Co-Impact Sourcing team has been working with the farmers of this area and the local community to grow tropical aromatic plants thorough a cooperative group of smallholder farmers, with the goal of including 2,500 farmers in the cooperative by the end of 2020.

Recently, the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® teamed up with Co-Impact Sourcing to provide training to the people in the Lunga Lunga community. This training focused on education and providing the community with protective masks and Days for Girls Kits. In total, about 700 women in the Lunga Lunga sourcing area were trained and provided with masks and kits. An additional 900 kits will be distributed in the Nanyuki and Mara regions of Kenya.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation is grateful for the opportunity to work closely with Co-Impact Sourcing to engage in good with communities around the world.

As of September 14th, 2020 nearly 16,500 firefighters continue to work to contain 28 major wildfires across California. Since the beginning of 2020 it is estimated that wildfires have burned 3.2 million acres in California. With over 4,200 structures destroyed and 24 fatalities since August 15th, Wellness Advocates from California began to reach out to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® for support through our disaster relief program. In total our wellness advocates have distributed 2,220 kits to evacuees and firefighters in their communities in California.

Thank you to all who have included the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation in their humanitarian efforts and engaging in good in their communities.

Wellness Advocates who have participated in California Wildfire Disaster Relief:

• Jackie Pearce
• Melissa Vallelunga
• Suzanne Nicholas
• Becky Schmauch
• Amber Clemons
• Emily Martin
• Kerri Ramirez
• Monique Clark
• Tania Mustain
• Corinna Barrus
• Sharia Fitzner
• Anna Tao
• Becky Schmauch
• Anja Johnson

Thank you! Our amazing Wellness Advocates have provided tremendous humanitarian support to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® for PURSUE 2020.

Whether you were contributing $10 toward anti-human trafficking or clean water, we’re thrilled to announce that $272,400 has been raised to help those who need it most. As always, 100% of your contributions go directly to aid, thanks to doTERRA®. Together, we’re making the world a better place!

The Miracle Foundation works diligently to ensure the most vulnerable are supported during the COVID-19 crisis. This foundation was in need of food and hygiene supplies due to lack of wages since the pandemic started. 
Dr. Zia, Ky NixProvide, and the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® worked together to provide COVID-19 emergency packs for 154 families (924 people in total) in India, provided by the Miracle Foundation.

On August 10th, 2020 a powerful derecho ripped through Iowa and the midwest with winds up to 112 mph. In total 600,000 people were without power and at least 10 million acres or 43% of Iowa’s crops were destroyed. In total the derecho covered a nearly 800-mile stretch over the course of 14 hours destroying homes, businesses, and agriculture. Wellness Advocate Lisa Lewis reached out to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® to help distribute doTERRA 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits. Lisa went door to door with her team in Iowa distributing kits to homes and community centers. Thank you Lisa for helping the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation provide relief to people in Iowa and engaging in good in your community.

American Indian Services recently received a donation of emergency relief hygiene kits and masks to support the Kayenta Fire Department, Navajo Nation homeless, and the Paiute Tribes of Utah. During this global pandemic, the Navajo Nation reported the highest death rates and per capita positive cases in the country. Because many live without running water and basic necessities it can be difficult to follow proper CDC guidelines to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Because of this the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® has been working hard to provide supplies and support to people in the Navajo Nation. In total the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation has donated 1,400 Emergency kits and 5,500 masks to American Indian Services for the Navajo and Paiute tribes.

Wellness Advocate Alli Wishner recently received a matching grant donation totaling $23,838. Alli and her team have been working in Nepal since the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in 2015. This earthquake devastated Nepal’s cities and rural areas and destroyed 35,000 classrooms. Through this matching grant, Alli and her team built their eighth and ninth schools that have empowered 1,000 students to continue their education.

“The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® is one of the first reasons I was drawn to doTERRA. It’s truly amazing to know that when we use doTERRA essential oils, not only are we helping those around us but we are also helping those across the world as well. We are part of a community that deeply cares about helping others in the way they identify they need it most. I feel the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation truly aligns with the mission my family and I had when we established Beyond the Epicenter: to help and support others however we can, in whatever way they tell us they need it most.” - Alli Wishner

Thank you Alli for engaging in good around the world and allowing the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation to support you in your humanitarian efforts.

Wellness Advocate Cindy Geditz recently received a product donation to empower people in her community. This product donation provided 44 items that will help support the teaching staff for the 2020-2021 school year. Cindy and her team were able to not only help teachers in the Ipswich Public School District of South Dakota but teachers around the United States.

“I am so excited that some of our team joined the challenge to either bless a teacher in their school district or help bless the Ipswich School District. Because of your efforts and love for these products, teachers are being blessed as far east as Boston as well as several teachers throughout South Dakota and the entire Ipswich Public School District.”

Thank you Cindy for engaging in good in your community and involving he doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® in your humanitarian efforts.

When hurricane winds and floods struck her hometown of Reynosa, Mexico, Blue Diamond Mayra Powers quickly gathered her team, requested 72-Hour Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits, and created a distribution plan. Three Gold leaders living in Mission, Texas, served as volunteers, taking the aid across the border and to immigrant shelters.

Many migrants coming from South America are waiting in Matamoros, Mexico, for the chance to enter the United States. Unfortunately, they were flooded during Hurricane Hannah, adding more challenges to their already difficult circumstances. Gold leader Claudia Gomez reported that the immigrants “lack everything from clothes and hygiene products to mattresses.” Claudia Gomez, Mayela Cadena, and Thelma Ochoa distributed 400 Emergency Relief Hygiene Kits, plus product donations to the camps in Matamoros.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® thanks these amazing individuals for engaging in good and stands with them, ready and happy to help where needed.

Mentors International®, along with partners CHOICE Humanitarian and local savings and loan co-ops in Nepal, have been successfully providing mentoring and business development trainings for a year and a half.

In November of 2019, Mentors started a contest among business training participants. Those who were applying the principles they were being taught were entered in the running to win a plastic greenhouse in February 2020. This greenhouse would allow them to continue to grow vegetables during the offseason. This contest was suggested by our in-country mentors as a means of encouraging more participation in training classes.

This contest was well-received throughout the community. Participants were truly trying to implement the new training principles that they were learning. Yes, three individuals were quite excited to win new greenhouses, but everyone was a winner as they started seeing the progress and growth within their small enterprises. Mr. Kedar Raymajhi, Ms. Maiyya Devi Karki, and Ms. Radhika Karki were the three winners of our Mentors training contest.

The doTERRA Healing Hand Foundation® and Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) are excited to announce the Restoring Hope initiative. This initiative aims to support Internet Crimes against Children (ICAC) task forces throughout the US and around the globe.

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Thank you to all who participated in the Frontline Support Kit initiative. Through our amazing Wellness Advocates we were able to distribute 15,000 kits in 44 different states and 5 different provinces in Canada.

Each kit provided:

Medical Grade Nitrile Gloves

Disposable Medical Masks

Deep Blue Rub Samples

On Guard Sanitizer Mist

Wild Orange

Lemon

Breathe

Tea Tree

At the base of the mountainous Aberdare Range in central Kenya, many people live in poverty. The average adult earns just one to three dollars per day and can’t provide sufficient meals for his or her family. Students in these areas also often face nigh insurmountable barriers to learning, including inadequate resources for public schools, a lack of proficient teachers, and limited access to nutritious meals. However, at the Flying Kites Academy, students develop not only academically, but also physically and emotionally through their integrative programs.

Wellness Advocate Philippa Best completed a matching grant project with the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® that directly impacted the lives of students at the Flying Kites Academy. Philippa and her team raised a total of $32,426, which went toward providing breakfast for 115 students every day for an entire term, lunch for all the students, 708 textbooks, 1550 composition notebooks, and tuition for five students. Thank you, Philippa, for choosing to work with the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation as you engage in good around the world!

In working closely with Dr. Steve and Dr. Julie Hite of TRUE Africa over the last 20 years, we have learned some important things about education in Africa. Nothing changes lives more dramatically than education. Generationally poverty is lessened when those who never attended school have an opportunity to study. To make that happen in places where people work very hard simply to survive, humanitarian entities have to understand the needs of the community. In this case, it became clear that schools where a teacher can sign-on and stay on-site secured much better teachers for longer periods of time. All of that means much more consistency and more opportunity for kids. The dōTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® is proud to support TRUE Africa by donating $39,160 for the construction of 2 buildings.

The Gokulganga Hospital in Ramechhap built with the help of dōTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® has been in continuous service ever since the outbreak of COVID-19. A temporary compound has been built around the hospital with a security guard in place round the clock. A doctor and 2 nurses have been stationed at the hospital. The municipality managed other necessary materials like medical equipment, beds, medicine supplies and COVID-19 testing equipment. About 18 temporary toilets have been built nearby to be used by the people quarantined. An ambulance is on standby. Out of the 54 people quarantined, 11 tested positive. They have now recovered and are home.

The Mayor Mr. Khadga Bahadur Sunuwar says, “We are grateful that this hospital building was built at the right time. Without this space it would have been very difficult for us. I would like to thank the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation with all my heart for their generosity.” As of 24 June, there has been no COVID-19 related death in Gokulganga Municipality.

The Navajo Nation spans three states and eight counties in the Southwestern United States. With thousands of members, COVID-19 is significantly impacting the tribe which is experiencing over 7,000 positive cases and 335 deaths. This is the highest rate of COVID-19 infection per capita of any state in the country.

Tribal leaders are taking strict measures to protect their population by imposing the mandatory wearing of face masks, a 57-hour weekend curfew, a nightly curfew from 8 pm to 5 am, and closing all roads to tourists.

This week the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® in partnership with American Indian Services (AIS) donated 2,500 masks to the Monument Valley clinic and fire station. Roland Denny of AIS delivered masks to Dr. Phillip E. Smith at the Monument Valley Health Center and to the San Juan Monument Valley Fire Department to be used by first responders and firefighters.

Nathan and Heather Ogden, cofounders of Chair the Hope, chose to respond to Nathan’s devastating physical setbacks by forging ahead with a passion and fervor for life.

Nathan and Heather give back and support others in similar circumstances. Chair the Hope Schedules delivery trips to various countries in order to provide hundreds of wheelchairs to those in need.

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Wellness Advocate and pharmacist Dr. Lametra Scott works passionately and selflessly, advocating for the sickle cell community. Sickle cell disease, a genetic blood disorder, affects millions of people throughout the world. Without proper care and prevention, the disease causes severe pain, organ damage, serious infections, stroke, and even death.

Dr. Scott realized that by promoting and providing sickle cell disease awareness, education, and service, she creates the opportunity to turn something negative for her family into something positive for others. That’s why, in 2015, she founded a nonprofit organization, Breaking the SSickle Cell Cycle Foundation, Inc.

For more information on sickle cell disease and Breaking the SSickle Cell Cycle Foundation, Inc., visit www.btsscycle.org.

Wellness Advocate, Tera Wild recently completed a matching grant project impacting the community of Sanitar, Nepal. Tera worked with the Canadian World Education Society or CanWES to make a direct impact to the Everest English School in Nepal, which was badly damaged by the 2015 earthquakes. With the help of the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® Tera was able to make double the impact and help renovate the school as well as aid in the construction of additional washrooms. Thank you Tera for engaging in good in your community and including the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation in your humanitarian efforts.

Wellness Advocate Mirela Pribac recently completed a matching grant project to support those suffering from COVID-19 in Romania. Mirela raised $2,896 which was matched by the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® for a total donation of $5,792. This money was used to purchase oxygen machines for hospitals in Targu Mures to aid healthcare workers in their fight against COVID-19. With the money raised Mirela and her team were able to double their impact and purchase 6 oxygen concentrators, 8 pulse oximeters, and 60 masks and tubes. Thank you, Mirela for supporting your local community and involving the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation in your humanitarian efforts.

Thank you for actively engaging in the dōTERRA Healing Hands Foundation’s® mission to empower people and communities worldwide to make positive change. Your loyalty and belief in this mission has led to incredible progress and impact over the past decade in helping others become self-reliant.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation focuses its effort on seven different areas of giving:

Children

Anti-human trafficking

Empowering Women

Clean Water

Disaster Relief

Global Health

Self-Reliance

Every simple act of goodness contributes to changing the world one drop, one person, one community at a time. Thank you for continuing to #EngageInGood in your communities around the world.

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The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® would like to recognize Deanna Wilson, who orchestrated the distribution of 100 frontline support kits for the Detroit Police Department. Police departments around the nation are working to keep their communities safe during these unprecedented times. We’re grateful for the opportunity to support the Detroit Police Department and other frontline workers worldwide.

Thank you to all frontline workers who have continued to serve their communities and keep us safe, as well as those who with doTERRA are working to engage in good in their communities.

A group of Wellness Advocates, doTERRA® customers, and employees teamed up to put together support for healthcare workers and first responders as a part of the #engageingood campaign. The campaign included a match of purchases of Rose Hand Lotion and the Shea Butter Collection—but times three! These funds were donated to support organizations and to create frontline support kits.

13,700 Frontline Support kits were sent to 248 Wellness Advocated in the US for distribution to healthcare workers and 1,300 Frontline Support kits were sent to 20 Wellness Advocates in Canada for distribution to healthcare workers. Thanks to everyone who participated in this campaign, either by donating or by participating and putting together the kits.

Wellness Advocate Lisa Bach Sørensen recently completed a matching grant project to benefit the Lisacare Shelter in Uganda. This shelter houses 50 people from the Lira District in Northern Uganda, Africa, and provides housing, vocational training, and medical aid to its residents. Through the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® and Lisa’s matching grant project, the Lisacare Shelter managed to finish their renovations of the facility’s toilets and roof.

Thank you, Lisa, for your diligent work in creating a safe space for people in Uganda to seek refuge.

Thanks to all your Rose Hand Lotion and Shea Butter Collection purchases, we’ve reached our $250,000 goal! doTERRA® will be tripling this by donating $750,000 to first responders to help with COVID-19 relief efforts.

We’re going to continue to #engageingood and hope you’ll join us!

Wellness Advocate Sarah Hornbuckle from Colorado recently raised $5,300 to support 12 individuals in a substance abuse treatment center. Sarah’s ultimate goal with this project was to help people who have lost everything, transition into becoming productive members of society and re-establish healthy family relationships. Originally Sarah and her team were going to be able to financially support 6 individuals but because of the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation’s matching program they were able to double that number and support 12 individuals battling substance abuse. Together the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation and Sarah were able to raise $10,300.

Wellness Advocate Heather Klinker recently created the national free mask project for first responders and healthcare workers fighting against COVID-19. Heather saw that many in her community—and many more outside of it—wanted to help and support healthcare workers and first responders but were unsure of how to start.

Because of this, Heather created the free mask project and Facebook network to connect communities and provide masks to individuals who need them the most. Currently, the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® is working with Heather to also provide frontline support kits.

A sincere thank you to all of our Wellness Advocates who are engaging in good in their communities and supporting those fighting COVID-19!

Kindness is needed across the world now perhaps more than at any other point before. With physical distancing making it difficult to connect, many people feel alone and isolated.

This is why the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® and doTERRA® are launching the #engageingood campaign. During this campaign, we encourage you to look for ways in which you can engage in good and notice how others have engaged in good in your community. You have the ability to inspire others to engage in good by sharing on social media.

Follow the hashtag #engageingood, as well as our social media accounts for your chance to be featured.

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Facebook: doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation

Here’s what you can do:

1. Think about a way in which you’ve engaged in good or someone you know has engaged in good.
2. Make a homemade #engageingood sign (that fits your camera frame).
3. Prop up your phone to get a good angle of you and your sign (or have someone help you).
4. Take a photo of you with your sign in front of you before you record a video.
5. Then, make a short segment (15 seconds or less) about an example of #engageingood.
6. Post it on your social media platforms with the following information:
   • Join me to #engageingood by sharing ideas about how to reach out even while physically distancing.
   • Make a homemade #engageingood sign.
   • Record your 15-second message, holding your #engageingood sign.
   • Post your video on your social media platforms, with #engageingood in your captions.
   • Follow #engageingood to see the many ways we’re all teaming together to spread kindness from a distance.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation partner Days for Girls International (DfG) started an initiative to sew and distribute masks to communities around the world. The Masks4Millions campaign was developed to combat the shortage of surgical masks in the United States due to the COCID-19 crisis. “As a global community that has a long history of stepping up to challenges, we are calling on all of you to help respond to this critical need. Join us to participate in the DfG Masks4Millions campaign. Our goal is to provide millions of masks to hospitals and clinics around the world. We are asking that right now, in addition to the beautiful Days for Girls menstrual pads that you are sewing, also make face masks for medical personnel and patients while this need exists. Let’s make sure we keep everyone safe and medical professionals have the supplies they need while they are on the front lines.” Thank you Days for Girls International for supporting healthcare workers around the world.

The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® is working with our partners, Wellness Advocates, and fellow employees to incorporate safeguards at work and in everyday life to combat the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).

We want to share our insights to help you stay informed in order to make the best choices for you and your family. Please follow these guidelines set out by Dr. Russ Osguthorpe, doTERRA® vice president of scientific and medical initiatives:

· Stay home when you’re sick, except to get medical care.

· Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.

· If soap and water aren’t readily available, an alcohol-based sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol can be used. doTERRA On Guard® Sanitizing Mist contains 64% alcohol.

· Cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash.

· Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth.

· Frequently clean touched surfaces and objects.

On the night of March 2, 2020, a series of large tornadoes touched down across central Tennessee, killing 25 people and wrecking hundreds of buildings. Thousands of people lost homes, businesses and property in the storm. Through good times and hard times it takes a village to pitch in and help with recovery efforts of this scale. We are very fortunate to have 24 Wellness Advocates and their teams who are willing to distribute doTERRA Emergency Relief Hygiene kits to their communities in need. An additional 2 teams are distributing doTERRA product to first responders. Many thanks to the Wellness Advocates of Tennessee who are working with evacuees, nonprofits, and churches to begin the process of rebuilding their communities.

The Imani Collective is a socioeconomic empowerment program in Kenya that provides men and women with dignified jobs that help their families rise above poverty. Wellness Advocate Jenny Nuccio saw an opportunity for growth by working with the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation® and received a matching grand, which was used to purchase land. This land has been used to build an ethical seamstress workshop, providing training to community members and a source of income for the community.

Thank you, Jenny, for your handwork and showing us your passion and love for the people of Kenya!