Giving Tuesday – Heart-Links https://www.heart-links.org In solidarity with the people of northern Peru Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:04:53 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 It’s #GivingTuesdayNow! https://www.heart-links.org/2020/05/05/giving-tuesday-now/ Tue, 05 May 2020 14:46:05 +0000 https://www.heart-links.org/?p=4452 Today is #GivingTuesdayNow. People across the world are standing TOGETHER and giving what they can to help each other through the COVID-19 pandemic.

For Heart-Links’ partners in northern Peru that means helping people in their communities stay safe. Our partners are

  • checking in with community leaders
  • offering mental health and emotional support
  • distributing food and PPE
  • promoting measures that prevent contagion
  • supporting home-based income generation projects
  • ensuring government aid gets to the people who need it
Men and women lining up to wash their hands.
Shoppers in Chiclayo, Lambayeque, washing their hands before entering the market.

Lambayeque province, where most of Heart-Links’ partners live and work, has become the epicentre of the disease in northern Peru. Although the capital reports by far the most confirmed cases, the fatality rate in Lambayeque (now 10.64%) is about 6 times that of Lima. Hospitals in the north are overrun. Two days ago, newspapers reported that Lambayeque had only one ICU bed and one ventilator left in the entire province.

You can help our partners #flattenthecurve in northern Peru by donating today to Heart-Links. Let them know we are #inittogether.

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#GivingTuesdayNow #inittogether #OneWorld

]]> Spread the word . . . the season of giving is here! https://www.heart-links.org/2017/11/21/spread-the-word-the-season-of-giving-is-here/ Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:43:42 +0000 https://www.heart-links.org/?p=1777 After the BUY BUY BUY of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, November 28 is a chance to give.

We know that many of our friends and supporters have already responded with generous donations to our Fall Appeal, so for Giving Tuesday, we’d like to ask for assistance of a different kind. Help spread the word about one of our most inspiring projects!

Heart-Links is halfway to raising $40,000 to build a permanent home for the Esperanza Alternative Education Centre in Cajamarca, Peru. The Centre, run by our newest community partner, ACIES, provides educational and homework support for impoverished Indigenous children from a perspective that respects and values their Indigenous heritage. Right now, the Centre works out of borrowed space in an abandoned market. This project will give the Esperanza Centre a building of its own so ACIES can continue this good work on a firm footing.

You can help Heart-Links reach our goal by sharing this post to friends, family and colleagues and asking them to consider making a donation.

Or make a donation yourself.

Looking for another way to help?

Fill out this GivingTuesday Pledge at CanadaHelps and choose Heart-Links as the charity you wish to support. A draw will be held on November 28 and if your entry is selected, CanadaHelps will donate $5000 to Heart-Links.

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