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"A selfie to brag about helping." Typically a American or European volunteer in Africa or Southeast Asia taking a picture of themselves with a child or children that are obviously poor, often showing the American or European offering help to the child or children, or implying such help. These photos are often used as Tinder profile pictures, and eventually are featured on Humanitarians of Tinder.

Also can be a photograph of a humanitarian aid worker in the act of helping a needy person, used in the context of fundraising for the humanitarian organization. As referenced in an official USAID response, "Small et. al 2007 has shown that well-lit photos and helpies generate more funding than text-based, and data-driven presentations of complex, global problems."
"She took a beautiful helpie of her and a child at the village school in Uganda where she volunteered for a week. Now its her Tinder profile picture and her organization is using that photo as a helpie in their annual report"
Helpie by JadedAid October 12, 2017
Related Words
helzie Helziee Helpies Helfie helpie heezie Helie helier Hellie Hellier
Helie is a name that is missed pronounce a lot . If you ever dated a Helie you’ll miss her. Helie is a very loud and crazy person. Helie has a great personality but don’t get on her bad side. She can be rube and stubborn. Over all she’s very beautiful and intelligent
Helie is very crazy and pretty.
Helie by Amber Gomez April 5, 2018
Occurs when an individual attempts to take a picture of themselves (commonly known as a "selfie") to show what a fucked-up, hellish day and/or life they are having.
"Come on down, Dad! Hurry! 'Dancing with the Stars' has just started!"
"Be right down, Princess! I'm taking a helfie!"

"Honey, can you clean up the baby's vomit? I'm doing my nails."
"Sure thing, dear! Right after I shoot a helfie!"
Helfie by Gurgling Snurg November 18, 2014
A sad and transparent buzzword created by a marketing company that has lost all touch with the society it lives in. The helfie was designed to artifically create a caring image for a party trying to demolish a country's social security in favor of its corporate overlords. Presumably they created this campaign with the sole intent to be mocked, because it's getting harder to pretend to be the underdog when you're the biggest party.

With the helfie they want to warm people up to they idea of: Do it yourself, because the government sure isn't going to bother anymore.
Na de boks met de bokshandschoen, de klets met de vlakke hand #helfie effect is hetzelfde. Afbraakbeleid.
Helfie by Plustelix April 21, 2015
A really funny person, but if you dont them then you dont take the time to get to know them. They are the person everybody secretly wants to be.
I know shes so cool, shes a Hellie!!!
Hellie by James September 20, 2004
Either "house" or "hook" in Ebonics depending on the way one uses the word
That was off the Heezie(hook)

Come to my Heezie(house)
heezie by Phoenix Orion March 25, 2004