our vision
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Mission
Helping Hands for the Deaf (HHD), is a Section 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization, that started in 2013 with the goal of providing assistance to the deaf and hard hearing community to better their life styles.
The mission of Helping Hands for the Deaf is to improve the independence and provide affordable housing for deaf/ disabled people. HHD achieves this mission through education, social integration, community development, independent living skills, job training, transportation and housing.
about us
Meskel Crowe, CEO
Meskel is the CEO of HHD. She earned her Bachelors degree from Mercer University in Human Resources and established HHD in 2013. She has many resources to help deaf people find homes, and has a passion to teach them life skills, English skills and job skills so they can earn employment and be independant. She lives in Henry County with her husband Nathan and her 2 children Jequel and Mekiah.
Ryan Buckner
Ryan is our adviser. He has worked for an accounting firm for several years and travel all over the country for his business. He has been taking sign language classes and is very enthusiastic about being with the Deaf community and helping with the finances of HHD. He is married with one daughter also named Ryan and lives in Henry county.
David Pinnow
David is a retired plant pathologist who began learning ASL after retirement. While still not fluent in ASL, he is sincerely interested in helping the Deaf community and wants to continue learning ASL in order to be more useful in that service. David is married and lives in Henry county but frequently visits his children and grandchildren who live elsewhere.
Yvonne Gast
Yvonne Gast is a retired ASL educational interpreter. She enjoys interpreting community events and religious services. Since retiring in 2021, she has spent more time with her 18 grandchildren, camping, traveling, and doing craft projects.
Demetrious Gioupis
Demetrios Gioupis is retired after working 27 years in editing and printing for Scranton Time Tribune Sunday newspapers and five years in welding. He is blessed with three sons and he currently lives in North Carolina. He enjoys volunteering for HHD by helping those who need little help.
services
HOUSING
EDUCATION
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
TRANSPORTATION
GENERAL SUPPORT
INDEPENDENT LIVING
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
HHD offers the following services:
help us help other by sowing to our organization!
''Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously''.
our most recent project!
Visit our Facebook for more information from previous projects.
This last week we helped some deaf friends move things out of their homes. Also, we helped a deaf lady just move into her new apartment.
our most recent project!
HHD Helping our friend move to a first-floor apartment!
We are committed to assisting with the comfort of our community.
Visit our Facebook for more information from previous projects.
activities
We had a great day at the Deaf-Blind awareness day. It was so wonderful to be together after such a long time! Until next time everyone!
activities
HHD at Stone Mountain!
We had a picnic on the great lawn, where we had a great time in the community!
activities
Trip to the Atlanta Botanical Garden
activities
More fellowship!
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HHD representatives made a 2 hr trip to the most beautiful area in Cave Spring GA to visit GA School for the Deaf. We brought Blessing Bags for the students. Most of the students are living in the dorm so we got them toiletry items for them to have for themselves. These items were donate by a sorority Hi Susan! Sorority names are Sigma Omega Zeta - Zeta Phi Beta
Marie showed us around the school, and as you can see it is out in the country. The buildings are mostly new and the dorms look awesome!
We were able to see some of the kids in the cafeteria and they were very excited to get their bags at the end of the day. We were excited to be able to see them! The are so sweet and fun!
apply for help
If you would like to start the process of asking for general help from HHD please fill this form out. We would contact you as soon as possible.
apply to volunteer
Helping Hands for the Deaf needs volunteers for different situations. We want to have a network of people who can help in different areas of need. If you are interested in volunteering, or willing to give a discount for your service.
contact us
PO Box 864
McDonough, GA 30253
Partnership with United Way of Greater Atlanta.
678-228-8967
