Corazón de Hierro was founded in 2025 by Anabella Dyer, after her own three-year journey with iron-deficiency anemia revealed a reality far greater than a single diagnosis.
Across Peru, thousands of children confront the same barrier — one that can quietly shape cognitive development, classroom performance, and future opportunity. What helped Anabella recover became a call to act: if access to iron could help rebuild her path, it could help protect theirs.
Corazón de Hierro transforms that responsibility into tangible intervention.
Rather than asking for financial contributions, the initiative mobilizes communities to donate lentils — a nutritious, affordable, and culturally familiar source of iron. From her home, Anabella organizes these donations into structured family kits designed not only to provide food, but to make nutrition practical and repeatable.
Each kit includes:
- 1 kilogram of lentils
- a standardized measuring cup
- a red ribbon symbolizing anemia awareness
- a simple, family-friendly recipe guide
To date, the project has already recovered more than 300 kilograms of lentils, allowing for multiple waves of distribution — with more continuously being collected.
On March 1, as the school year begins in Peru, Corazón de Hierro will carry out its first official delivery in Cañete, Lima, where more than 180 children and their families are expected to receive support.
But this is not a single event.
It is the beginning of an effort Anabella intends to repeat, expand, and strengthen — again and again — for as long as children remain at risk of preventable anemia.