HelpAge International is an international NGO that helps older people claim their rights, challenge discrimination and overcome poverty, so that they can lead dignified, secure, active and healthy lives. Their work is strengthened through a global network of like-minded organisations.
HelpAge have offices in London and Brussels, six regional centres coordinating their work in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia and Eastern Europe/Central Asia, and a number of national programmes and emergency response programmes.
Five organisations in Canada, Colombia, Kenya, India and the UK set up HelpAge International in 1983 to provide a strong network to support older people worldwide.
The HelpAge network has since grown steadily in size and influence. HelpAge now has 80 affiliates and works with more than 180 other partners in over 70 countries across the world.
HelpAge works for and with older people, lobbying governments to achieve policy change, and through practical projects on the ground. They work on issues that affect older people worldwide, such as climate change, rights, health, social protection, HIV and AIDS and work. HelpAge also works in emergency responses, most recently the floods in Pakistan and the Haiti earthquake.
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