Featuring a silent auction, complimentary Peruvian refreshments, a cash bar, and music by El Sistema Aeolian’s Concertino Quartet and Shout Sister Choir, this free-admission fundraiser is a great way to spend a chilly Thursday night.

Plus, you’ll here about the amazing programs and projects Heart-Links’ partners in Peru carried out in 2018.

Monies raised will go to support community development initiatives in northern Peru in 2019.

When: Thursday, February 7 from 7 pm to 9 pm

Where: Innovation Works, 201 King Street, London, ON

7:00pm Doors Open, Silent Auction Starts
7:15pm  Welcome Message from Louise Vandenbosch, Co-Chair
7:30pm El Sistema Aeolian’s Concertino Quartet
7:50pm Peru Projects Video & Words from Gordon Price, Co-Chair
8:10pm Shout Sister Choir
8:30pm Final Bidding
8:45pm Silent Auction Closes

These gems—and many more—are up for grabs in our silent auction:

• golf packages from Ingersoll Golf Club, Sunningdale Golf & Country Club, and Caradoc Sands Golf Club
• an original oil painting by Jeremy Price
• a certificate from London Police Services to ride-along in a police cruiser
• 2 passes for a boat tour of Niagara Falls by Hornblower Niagara Cruises
• party packages for Palasad bowling and Ctrl V virtual reality arcade
• passes to Modo Yoga and Goodlife Fitness
• a celebration tree from Reforest London

There’s something for everyone. So don’t miss out! RSVP here

Every year Heart-Links offers a small group of Canadians and Canadian residents an unforgettable experience in solidarity. Our 3-week trip to Peru will introduce you to our partners and friends in Zaña, Chiclayo and Cajamarca and to the important work they do. You’ll visit some of the community development projects HLs supports and exchange views and experiences with the people those projects serve.

Explore your potential to engage in international development.

Apply Now!

The 2019 trip is scheduled to run from June 23 to July 14.

The deadline for applications is January 31. Applicants must be available for three planning meetings before the trip. More Information about our annual Solidarity Trip can be found here. Or email Ruth Taylor at info@heart-links.org or call 226-884-2845.

Don’t need more convincing? Apply Now!

Help us welcome back our 2018 Solidarity Trip participants, just returned from visiting our partners, projects, and friends in Peru. Hear about their adventures and what they saw and learned.

Enjoy Latin American drumming by Las Chicas Rumberas, refreshments, and good company. We’ll have organic, free trade Peruvian Café Femenino on tap and for sale (either ground or whole bean, roasted locally by Patrick’s Beans). And there will be a games corner for children of all ages.

When: Sunday, July 22 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Innovation Works, 201 King Street

RSVP here.

We hope to see you there!

We are deeply grateful to the many people whose donations made this possible.For 2018, we have pledged more than $128,000 toward projects that range from diversity training in schools in marginal neighbourhoods in Chiclayo, to completion of a centre for alternative education in Cajamarca, to capacity building for women farmers in the Zaña Valley. Our Board has approved financing for 13 projects with 6 partner organizations.It promises to be an exciting year, full of great new ventures and accomplishments. We hope we can count on your support as we move forward. There are many ways to give, but today we ask you to consider this one:

Take part in thePlease Help our Charity Win $10,000Every $1 you donate to our charity in June via GivingChallenge.ca counts as a ballot to help us win $10,000 from the GIV3 Foundation.

Please donate today – we really appreciate your help!

Heart-Links would like to thank the late Raymond “Pete” Cheele, and his wife, Mabel Cheele, who predeceased him, for their generous bequest in support of Heart-Links’ work in Peru. Committed Catholics, the Cheeles were close friends of the Zadorsky family and followed the mission work of Heart-Links founder Sister Janet Zadorsky with interest and encouragement.

Because of this gift, the Esperanza Centre for Alternative Education is on a solid foundation—literally. The bequest has enabled Heart-Links’ partner ACIES to complete the foundation, retaining wall and perimeter of this afterschool centre in a marginal neighbourhood in Cajamarca, Peru.

The Centre, which currently works out of borrowed space in an abandoned market, provides education and homework support for impoverished Indigenous children from a perspective that values their Indigenous heritage. As Indigenous people and recent arrivals from the countryside, these children face increased racism and discrimination and the dismissal of their culture.

Because of the bequest made by the Cheele estate and the contributions of other Heart-Links friends and supporters, Heart-Links is within reach of its goal (just $4,250 to go!) to finance completion of the Centre in 2018 and programming for the children it will serve.

Heart-Links’  second annual free-admission Share The Love features a silent auction, Valentine’s Day gifts for sale, complimentary refreshments and live entertainment.

When: Thursday, February 8 from 6 pm to 8 pm

Where: Innovation Works, 2o1 King Street, London, ON

Here are a few of the gems up for grabs in our silent auction:

• • • One week at a cottage in Bayfield
    • 2 night/day weekend Blue Mountain lift tickets
    • A set of 12 1-hour passes to the Lambeth Golf Academy
    • 2 tickets to Grand Theatre’s Blind Date

AND

We’ll have Shout Sister London there to sing away any lingering winter blues!

Beside good company and good fun, Share The Love offers something more: You’ll learn about the communities Heart-Links works with in northern Peru and you’ll contribute to their efforts to build thriving communities.

RSVP here

Heart-Links is once again accepting applications for our annual
Solidarity Trip to northern Peru.

Every year Heart-Links takes a small group of Canadian residents to northern Peru for an unforgettable two- to three-week experience in solidarity. Meet our partners and friends in Zaña, Chiclayo and Cajamarca. Visit the different community development projects HLs is involved with and exchange views and experiences with the people those projects support.

The 2018 trip is scheduled to run from June 22 to July 7.

Applicants must be available for three planning meetings before the trip. The deadline for applications is December 31.

More Information about our annual Solidarity Trip can be found here.

Or email Ruth Taylor at info@heart-links.org or call 226-884-2845.

Don’t need more convincing? Apply Now!