"Think globally, act locally" - René Jules Dubos
The Rede de Ação Voluntária Coração em Ação (Heart in Action), located in Curitiba since 1999, has the objective to intervene in social needs, having as a priority to give a worthier life to the human beings.
Performing as a bridge between who it wants to help and who needs aid, the Rede de Ação Voluntária Coração em Ação counts on the active participation of ABREU, MERKL, its partners and associates as a “friend company” since the beginning of the voluntary net action.

About Heart in Action www.coracaoemacao.com.br

2007/2008 - “Time is an invisible web on which everything may be embroidered.” (Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, 1839-1908)

Weaving a great future! This year our traditional substitution of holiday cards by donations will provide the scarcest good in the world: time!

Throughout 2009 ABREU, MERKL's collaborators will dedicate work hours to voluntary services in non-profit social assistance organizations.

Results will be reported here at the end of the campaign.

2007/2008 - “Everything you can imagine is real.” (Pablo Picasso)

On the 2008 New Year celebration, we gave continuity to our usual substitution of traditional holiday cards by donations to non-profit social assistance institutions.

Thus, aiming “to turn real the imagination of a great future”, during the month of December toys were donated to 142 children from the CEMEI ATENAS II daycare center and from the ABI HAI orphanage.