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Archives for March 2014

March 6, 2014

Joshua’s Day

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After an international trip and two separate Babyheart missions it was finally Joshua’s day in surgery! He’d waited his whole life for his turn and now he finally had his CHD repaired by the Babyheart and Santiago team.
During his surgery his mother shared the saddest story about how Joshua came home really sick one day and told her he knew he was going to die. He told her that it was OK because when she got old, his brother could take care of her. She told the Babyheart team she didn’t react then but went into her bedroom and broke down. Can you imagine your child telling you that because they knew it was true? True no longer, Josh had his heart surgery and he is on his way back home with a healed heart!
To the people and organizations that have donated so much for this mission to happen, thank you. The world is a much better place with children like Joshua in it and all the other kids saved by the Babyheart teams with your generous help.

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Babyheart, CHD, Congenital Heart Defects, heart defects, News, pediatric

March 5, 2014

Babyheart Acquires New Partner in Basin Glove

Old friends come together to save lives
Neil Morris and Dr. William Novick and are in the same Fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha. Bill was a founding father of their Fraternity at Troy University. Neil is a registered nurse and while still in college he heard of Bill’s organization and thought that he was doing such a wonderful thing with helping children.
Neil recently invented a product called Basin Glove, a disposable wash basin liner that prevents hospital acquired infections.
He contacted Dr. Novick to see if this product would help his cause. Bill offered to monitor the product to see how Basin Glove helped to prevent post surgical infections.

Dr. Novick confirmed that the product appeared to be helping at which point Neil offered to donate Basin Glove as needed.

Thank you Neil, for your charity, entrepreneurship, and inventing a great product like Basin Glove !

Now support our partners and visit Basin Glove’s website below !

Basin Glove 

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March 5, 2014

Mia’s Mission…to save children’s hearts

Mia Hattaway is only 7 years old and she raised $125 for the International Children’s Heart Foundation. She was getting tired of the fundraisers at her school and never knowing where or who her money was helping. Because she lost her grandfather to heart problems she wanted to explore charities that served people suffering from heart conditions. She and her mother found the International Children’s Heart Foundation via the 4 star rating on Charity Navigator. They visited the website, Babyheart.org, saw the pics and videos and knew they found the right place, an organization that helps children Mia’s age and all ages suffering from congenital heart defects. She applied something she loved doing, making rainbow bracelets, and posted her own fundraising page.

The funds she raised have gone towards children in the latest Babyheart mission in Santiago, Dominican Republic.

Mia’s Mission

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Free Child Heart Surgeries

7,925 Total Surgeries

Mission Statement

The mission of the International Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF) is to bring the skills, technology and knowledge to cure and care for children with congenital heart disease in developing nations.  ICHF does this regardless of country of origin, race, religion or gender. Our goal is to make the need for ICHF obsolete. We work toward this goal through our medical mission trips, where we operate on children and educate local healthcare professionals.

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