Pulmonary Association Heli

Pulmonary Association Heli is Finland's largest social and health organisation. The organisation, in addition to its members' services, is involved in a wide range of activities, including rehabilitation, vocational training, running of work centres and various health promotion activities. It is a non-profit organisation, whose services supplement the services that society provides. Heli is also a voluntary civil organisation comprising more than 100 local associations and nearly 50 000 members. Members are people with respiratory diseases and their families.

Each year more than 10 000 people access our vocational rehabilitation and training services in Heli's network of four rehabilitation and research centres, three vocational training centres and five work centres.

Our staff comprises of 1000 rehabilitation & training professionals. The annual total income of Heli is about 70 million EUR (2005).

Heli is also an active member of European Platform for vocational Rehabilitation EPVR, an association of leading rehabilitation service providers from 12 European countries.

Pulmonary Association Heli has been established in 1941. From an association of TB-patients it has grown to be one of Finland's leading experts in rehabilitation and training.