Wish List
Health | Education | Women | Food & Farming | Tools of Hope
Living Heart advocates the right of every Andean child to health, an education and a brighter future. We need your support to help poor communities rise out of hardship and poverty. Support Living Heart in achieving its goals. By supporting us, you will help change people’s lives.
Health
Without improved health many children will never have the strength to fight off common diseases. Some may never live to see a healthy adulthood. We believe that every child deserves a fighting chance – wherever they were born.
£3 Leggings for Granny: Give an abandoned grandma the strength to survive another winter. Your money would allow us to provide one abandoned elderly woman with crucial garments to keep her warm.
£3 Vitamins for a Malnourished Child: Help give a growing child the nutrients they need to be healthy, active and fight disease. Your donation will allow Living Heart to supplement the diet of one malnourished child for a whole month.
£5 Anti-Fungal Cream: Help soothe a child’s delicate skin rubbed raw by the wind, sun and painful fungal infections. You will enable Living Heart to provide enough face and anti-fungal cream to treat all primary school children in one community.
£6 Dental Supplies: Help us stop young children from losing their teeth before they are even adults. Young children have no access to dental care or hygiene. Your money would allow us to equip a family of 7 children with the ability to take care of their teeth.
£16 Winter Clothes for a Child: Help a child survive the freezing winter and biting wind. Your money would buy a sturdy pair of trousers, a warm jumper and a woolly vest and hat to help one child withstand the winter cold.
£16 Anti-Parasite Tablets: Give a malnourished child the ability to take sustenance from their food. Your money will enable Living Heart to treat a class of young children for parasites that make them listless, bloated and ill.
£18 School First Aid kit: Help equip a school teacher with the ability to stop injuries and illnesses becoming major health issues. Your money will allow Living Heart to provide one school with a basic First Aid kit, including paracetamol, cold and flu remedies, bandages and antiseptic cream.
£117 Microscope: Give us the chance to effectively treat diarrhoea and terrible stomach pains amongst young children. Your money would enable Living Heart to equip our nurse with the ability to properly identify parasites and stomach worms.
Education
Without a continued education many children will have no way of escaping the vicious circle of hard labour and poverty suffered by so many previous generations. We believe that the lack of a pencil should not be an insurmountable barrier to a child’s basic education.
£4 Classroom Kit for a Disadvantaged Child: Give an impoverished child the gift of learning. Your money will enable Living Heart to provide one child with the tools to study that they cannot afford – a pencil, eraser, sharpener, notebook, glue, crayons, scissors and a ruler.
£8 Reading Books: Give an impoverished but gifted child the chance to shine. Your money would enable Living Heart to buy 2 reading books for a bright child to develop their literacy.
Food & Farming
Without the knowledge of self-sustainable food and farming practices many families are unable to combat frost, poor soil or the effects of high altitude, resulting in chronic malnutrition, growth problems and health issues. We believe that a belly full of hot food goes a long way.
£0.35 Bowl of Porridge and a Hot Lunch: Simple as it says – feed a child delicious hot food for a day. That’s all it takes.
£32 Seeds to Sow: Allow members of a community to demonstrate their knowledge and enthusiasm in sowing a new harvest of fresh crops in their greenhouse. Your money will provide enough seeds to sow over 6 different greenhouse crops for 3 months.
£32 Tools for Farming: Allow a poor farmer to efficiently work in the family greenhouse. With the right tools a father can give his whole family access to a variety of healthy, home-grown food. Your money would cover all the tools he would need to work in the greenhouse and cultivate his crops.
£65 Feed a Malnourished Child: Help Living Heart feed more malnourished children in more communities. There are many more communities crying out for our help. Your money would allow us to give one more child a hot breakfast and lunch every school day for a whole year.
£105 Fresh Vegetables for a Community: Give a highland community the gift of fresh vegetables rich in essential nutrients. You would pay for one month’s supply of fresh vegetables for a school of 100 children.
£5,220 Materials for a Greenhouse: From poles to plastic; tanks to tarps – everything a community needs to build one big greenhouse. Your money will help one community get its Educational Greenhouse Project off the ground. All the materials for the construction would be covered by your donation.
£9,100 4×4 Second-Hand Vehicle: Help Living Heart save money and feed more children. Whilst Living Heart does not have their own vehicle to deliver food to the communities the transport costs are extremely high. During the wet season, roads are often blocked, flooded or washed out making access to these communities impossible without such a vechicle. Many NGOs suspend their activities during the rainy season, but Living Heart continues to reach out with consistent vists to the communities. Your donation would allow our team to continue food deliveries to the remote communities within the Sacred Valley year round.
Women & Children
Without birth control many women will have to suffer the pain of watching their children die in infancy and the agonizing worry of providing food for all the hungry mouths. We believe that every child born into this world should be given the chance to grow up strong and fulfil their potential.
£8 Sex Education Class: Help keep vulnerable young women out of danger and well-informed. Your money will pay a nurse trained in women’s sexual health to conduct a one-day sexual health, hygiene and contraception workshop in one inaccessible community.
£10 Warm Clothes for a Newborn: Help a newborn baby survive its first winter in the cold. Your money will cover a woolly hat, socks, leggings and cosy blanket to help prevent against fatal pneumonia caused by exposure to the cold.
£45 Pre-Natal Vitamins: Give a newborn baby a fighting chance at a healthy life. Your money will equip one pregnant woman with the vitamins to take her through the full 9 months.
£130 Contraceptive Injections: Give desperate women the opportunity to make a life-changing choice. You will enable Living Heart to provide 50 women in rural communities with the chance to take control of their own family planning for three months.
£££ Children’s & Women’s Refuge: Your donation will contribute to the purchase of a piece of land in the Sacred Valley and the construction of an ecological children’s and women’s center, built under the philosophy of the Permaculture, where abused and abandoned children and women will find shelter and can learn some life-skills such as sewing, weaving, cooking, organic farming, etc.
Tools of Hope
Without tools of hope, the burden of despair, isolation and misery lead to a downward spiral of depression and gloom. It can’t all be about classes. Young children need to play to learn.
£3 Balls: Give a poverty-stricken child a chance at a normal childhood. You will give a child who has grown up with the daily reality of crushing poverty the chance to be joyful and play with a ball.
£13 Musical Instruments: Allow disadvantaged children to develop valuable creative skills. Your money will allow Living Heart to provide a class of children with musical instruments to encourage creative cognitive development.
£195 Playground Equipment: Help malnourished children enjoy the benefits of physical activity. In the harsh environment of a highland community there is nowhere to play, and nothing to play with. Your money would enable Living Heart to buy the materials to build a sturdy wooden playground in our poorest community.