Helping Hands is a Boston Massachusetts-based non-profit organization that trains capuchin monkeys to help patients who are paralyzed.

This unique organization places specially trained capuchin monkeys with people who are paralyzed or who live with other severe mobility impairments. As live-in companions, monkey helpers provide 20-30 years of service, bringing the gifts of independence, companionship, dignity and hope to the people they help across the United States.

Helping Hands also conducts public education programs that teach young people how to avoid risky behaviors that can lead to spinal cord injury and how community service can be a powerful way to help others.

Helping Hands trained and placed the first monkey as a helper and a companion to a paralyzed individual in 1979. Since that time, they have developed programs to support the lifetime needs of the monkeys and their human partners.

To find out more about the organization and this unique program, visit Helping Hands.