2024 Help Peru Gala highlights
 A HUGE thank you to the entire Help Peru community for making the 11th Annual Help Peru Gala a resounding success! This year’s event sold out faster than ever before, and thanks to your generosity, we raised over $700,000! With over 240 attendees, it was an inspiring night dedicated to building a better future for Peru.  Chris Price, our Executive Director, delivered an inspiring speech, encouraging the crowd to “triple down” on their efforts and to dream big! Chris said, “To paraphrase the late Senator Robert F. Kenedy: there are those who look at the world and only see hunger, poverty, disease, and injustice, and they raise their hands up and ask why? Friends, that’s not us, and that’s not Help Peru! We look at the world and dream of what can be, and we raise our hands up high and declare why not! We dream of a more educated, healthy, and prosperous Peru, where everyone has the opportunity to build a better future – regardless of where they live, the color of their skin, or whom they love. So tonight, I want you to raise your paddles up high, raise them often and dream of the Peru that can be… join me in saying, why not! say it with love, why not! say it for Peru, why not! because I know, we all know…Juntos Podemos!”The Help Peru community certainly rose to the occasion, achieving a record-breaking $230,000 in pledged donations.  Your generosity has taken us steps closer to our 2025 goals: 4,500 direct beneficiaries (at least 1,000 new)40 communities (at least 5 new)10 program partners (2-3 new)2 programs initiate scaling initiatives2-3 program partner workshopsNew Program Officer position in Peru  Photo: Luis Felipe Castellanos, Chief Operating Officer of Intercorp Financial Services |
| 2024 Building a Better Future Honoree Help Peru has a tradition of honoring persons, organizations, or companies that make a significant contribution towards improving the lives of all Peruvians through their Philanthropy. Our 2024 Building a Better Future Honoree was INTERCORP. The award was accepted byLuis Felipe Castellanos, Chief Operating Officer of Intercorp Financial Services, With their mission of Building a Brighter Future, Intercorp has, over the years, supported multiple programs covering Culture, the Arts, Health, and Education, among other areas – enriching the lives of thousands upon thousands of our fellow Peruvians. Intercorp, like Help Peru, also supports the ground-breaking work of Peru Champs, yet another example of this type of philanthropy. Peru Champs screens and selects exceptional children from low-income families and provides them with scholarships to attend Innova schools, where they build their skills through group learning activities and design and implement small community-based projects – preparing the next generation of Peruvian leaders!  |
