Why Links?
There are a seemingly endless number of organizations in India who help kids. What sets Links apart:
Depth. The depth of the work. Individual children receive life-saving surgeries, and Links supports and advocates for the families every step of the process, from diagnosis to surgery to follow up care and nutrition. This is hard and expensive work, and completely funded by people of goodwill and through fundraisers, such as the gallery show Sharon would like to have with your help.
Trust. The length of time Links has been working in the community is significant. Links has been on the ground in the community almost every day since 2017. Links knows the needs of the community because they are there, talking to families and seeing the needs first-hand. The first Links Educational Center was in the same blue tent structure the families live in, which Links rented from the landlord exactly like the community does.
Volunteer-Run. Links is 100% volunteer run. The people doing the work and giving money to this cause do this hard, hard work asking nothing in return because they are people of good will, and see the needs of the community as human rights issues.
Direct Impact of Funds. Every rupee is given directly to fund surgeries or to education and nutrition for the children of Munnekollal. The Links Team does not take any money for administrative fees nor do they take a salary. The only salaries Links support are the teachers’ salaries and the community mobilizer. That’s the reason Sharon and her co-founders started Links; they wanted to know where their hard-earned money was going and wanted to see the direct impact on children. The Trust is not funded by corporations or the government. All funding is given by individuals.