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'Help' is a word used to indicate distress or the need for assistance. For example, one may shout "Help!" to a passerby if being robbed. Person-to-person help can come in a variety of forms; monetary assistance in the form of grants or loans or scholarships is considered a way to help a person get on their feet in the world, people can lend emotional help in times of depression, educational help and physical help to those in need of such assistance. For example, the elderly and young are frequent recipients of help. Often in sports people may call out for "Help" signaling that they need assistance from one of their team mates.
Help is often associated with SOS, the international Morse code distress signal. It consists of three dots, three dashes and three dots:
:'· · · — — — · · ·'
This is the same as for the letters S, O and S, except that it is sent as one single letter - that is, with the inter-letter spaces converted to inter-element spaces.

Contents

Resources for those in need of help

Emergency response

Help for the impoverished or financially challenged

Help for the homeless

Help for the hungry

Help for the unemployed or underemployed

Help for students

See also

Resources for those in need of help

Emergency response

Main articles: Emergency


★ Crisis hotline - for or concerning the emotionally distressed, such as for the depressed or those contemplating suicide.

★ Emergency services - public services for responding to immediate threats to life and property.

★ Emergency telephone number - 9-1-1 in North America and 1-1-2 in Europe and for GSMs, see the article for other numbers.

★ Medical emergency - injury or illness that poses an immediate threat to life.

Help for the impoverished or financially challenged

Main articles: Poverty


★ Begging

★ Charitable organization

Help for the homeless

Main articles: Homelessness


★ Boarding house

★ Homeless shelter

★ Subsidized housing

Help for the hungry

Main articles: Hunger (disambiguation)


★ Food bank

★ Organizations combatting hunger

★ Soup kitchen

Help for the unemployed or underemployed

Main articles: Unemployment, Underemployment


★ Job hunting

★ Temporary work

★ Unemployment benefit

Help for students

★ Guidance Counseling

★ Homework help service

★ Student financial aid

★ Study skills

★ Tutoring

See also

★ Call for help

★ Crisis

★ Emergency

★ Mayday

★ Online help

★ SOS