H.OPES Foundation - The Humanitarian OPErations Foundation

The Humanitarian OPErations Foundation (H.OPES) is a Belgian humanitarian private foundation. Since its foundation in 2017, it has helped vulnerable communities affected by emergencies, disasters, and underdevelopment. H.OPES aims to transform social and economic vulnerability situations into individual and collective growth opportunities through emergency aid and development cooperation projects that promote autonomy, resilience, and sustainability.

We support emergency response, recovery, and longer-term development by implementing projects providing specialist personnel and financial assistance in cooperation with our local partners. We focus on three main sectors: humanitarian aid to give immediate relief, humanitarian demining to secure the area affected by conflicts, and blue growth to support the local community’s sustainable development and environment. We also support the policymakers in making good choices to keep a positive change in their communities. In this regard, since its establishment, H.OPES has been working with several institutions - among which we can mention the FAO, the European Parliament, and Federpesca Europa - in the context of international cooperation to ensure an actual impact of proposed activities and effective implementation of projects.