Founded in 1908, Hope and Healing International (HHI), formerly known as Christian Blind Mission, works to help children and adults with disabilities in developing countries. The charity states that 15% of the global population has a disability, including 150 million children. HHI also reports that 90% of disabled children do not attend school and 80% live in developing countries. In F2020, it provided healthcare and community services to 614,382 people.

Hope and Healing International runs five main programs: Health, Family Sustainability, Education, Social Attitudes, and Self Image. The charity does not provide a spending breakdown for its programs in F2020.

HHI’s Health programs fund medical supplies and treatments for children in poverty. In F2020, the charity provided 263,360 children with preventative care, such as eye screening, medicines, HIV education, and hygiene training. It also sent its local partners more than $3.5m in medicine and vitamins, 7,521 hospital mattresses, 287,606 gloves, 57,466 face masks and 8,810 surgical items.

The charity’s Family Sustainability programs provide financial support to low-income households and medical care to disabled family members. In F2020, the charity helped 41,822 families through training in agriculture, livestock production, and business management.

HHI’s Education programs promote awareness of disabilities and safe hygiene in local schools. In F2020, it helped to create school clubs to teach 330 students about clean water and hand washing. The charity also reports that it built school latrines used by 3,449 students during the year.

The charity’s Social Attitudes and Self Image programs aim to help disabled people feel included in their communities. In F2020, HHI states that it trained 9,459 community members, government workers, teachers, and medical staff on disability inclusion. It also funded sports, music, and arts programs reaching 11,188 children.

In F2017, Hope and Healing International took control of Christian Blind Mission US (the US affiliate of HHI). In F2019, Hope and Healing transferred control of Christian Blind Mission US to a separate organization. As such, the financial analysis for all three years below does not include revenues or expenses for US operations.

Hope and Healing International is a Major 100 charity, one of Canada’s largest charities, with $14.0m in cash donations and $10.1m in donated goods (mainly medical supplies and equipment) in F2020. Administrative costs are 5% of revenues (less investment income) and fundraising costs are 24% of cash donations. This results in total overhead spending of 29%. For every dollar donated, 71 cents go to the cause. This falls within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.

HHI has funding reserves of $13.5m, of which $2.3m is donor-endowed. Excluding donor-endowed funds, HHI can cover 131% or around 1.3 years of annual program costs. The charity’s program cost coverage spiked in F2020 due to a $4.5m increase in investments using proceeds from asset sales. Its financial notes state that it gained $6.5m on proceeds from the disposal of land, buildings, and equipment during the year.

­­In F2020, Hope and Healing International paid external fundraisers $56k to raise $2.5m, at a cost of 2 cents per dollar raised. This may be an error reported on the charity’s annual filings. In F2019, HHI paid external fundraisers $685k to raise $2.5m, at a cost of 27 cents per dollar.

Charity Intelligence has sent this update to Hope and Healing International for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated on May 28, 2021 by Eric Zhao.