By Leila Hawken | Executive Assistant
Love enters the heart in friendship's disguise. Be a friend this Valentine's Day to a child who needs Surgeons of Hope to repair his or her young heart. We are doing something new this very week, following our highly successful echocardiography training session which took place last October.
Our three-person mission is doing great things this week at La Mascota Children's Hospital. Dr. Emilie Carvello from the University of Maryland Medical Center is joining with Clayton Dobronyi, RN, and Danielle Lucero, Sterile Process Educator, both from Children's Hospital of Colorado. Together they are teaching the local hospital staff of doctors and nurses in intensive sessions about Basic and Advanced Pediatric Life Support and Sterile Processing. After their first day, they report a large number of participants, all of whom are eager to learn and thoroughly engaged as students and trainers. In addition to learning the techniques, they are learning how to teach those techniques to others.
Surgeons of Hope President, Eduardo da Cruz, Head of Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care at Children's Hospital of Colorado, said, "We are inducing a cultural change by integrating nurses into the project. This is a new concept in Nicaragua." And, nurses are working and learning together with the doctors. Truly, we are training the trainers.
While you are thinking of love on Valentine's Day, why not make a donation? Be that friend to a child's heart. If you make the donation on behalf of someone else through Global Giving, your honoree will receive a lovely notice from Global Giving, thereby spreading the friendship and love around a bit.
Here are some instructions to get you started:
Whenever you make a GlobalGiving donation in someone else's name, they'll receive a card from GlobalGiving with the details of the goodness done in their name. Just select "Make this donation in honor of someone" during checkout, and you'll be prompted for further information.
On one of the Surgeons of Hope Project Pages, check the box "Make this Donation in Honor of Someone?" at checkout.
You will be prompted to indicate how you would like the card sent (e-mail or postal mail), the card design, and all recipient details. You also can enter a personal message to the recipient.
Preview: Once you have entered all information, you can preview the card to see an image of what the recipient will receive.
When you have completely filled out the fields, please be sure to click the orange "Save" button.
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If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
