Tag Archives

sustainable communities

Men and women make guinea pigs pens

Coloche: moving toward sustainability

  • September 12, 2023

Another community in Peru is taking big steps toward lasting change Continue Reading

2 women plant vegetables in irrigated rows

Where are they now?: María Suclupe

  • August 16, 2023

Two years ago, we asked Heart-Links supporters to help María Suclupe reach her dream of raising chickens to help feed her family and increase their earnings. Continue Reading

San Isidro has come a long way in 3 years

  • February 27, 2023

When we first visited the community of San Isidro in 2019, they did not have a working well or chickens or animals of any kind. Continue Reading

a circle of women on the beach lift their hands to the sky

Creating Green Urban Communities:
Centro Santa Angela

  • February 9, 2023

Centro Santa Angela’s work to “green” urban neighbourhoods in José Leonardo Ortíz has moved to the neglected and underserved pueblo joven of San Miguel, whose public park had barely a single plant growing in it when the project started last year.... Continue Reading

A woman holds a red bucket and shows children and adults around her how to prepare soil

Preventing Hunger in San Isidro:
Centro Esperanza

  • February 7, 2023

The families of the rural community of San Isidro have come a long way since 2017, when they fled their homes because of floods. Continue Reading

A woman holds a chicken while a man behind her feeds some chicks and at the right two hands are shown in closeup holding a chick. The text reads "Sustainability Comes from the Community: the Example of San Isidro, Peru" 05

Sustainability Comes from the Community:
the example of San Isidro, Peru

  • June 9, 2022

Heart-Links’ episode of Tapestry 2030 Season 2 is now LIVE! This season of the Ontario Council for International Cooperation‘s podcast and illustration series is focused on localization, an approach to development that prioritizes ideas and solutions that are community... Continue Reading

woman takes selfie with six other people in the background kneeling or standing in front of an upright chicken incubator

María’s dream is coming true

  • November 22, 2021

Last May, we asked our supporters to help María Saclupe reach her dream of expanding her chicken business—and our donors responded! Continue Reading