Help Elderly Colombians Access Lifesaving Care

Thank you for contributing to our dream of building the first open children's cardiovascular center in Medellín. This service is vital for children with heart diseases in Antioquia and it is thanks to your generous donations that we get closer to this goal each day. With the contributions of our donors on Global giving, we have managed to acquire surgical machines that will help save the lives of many children, and also help us give poor children with heart diseases access to healthcare that would sadly otherwise not be available to them. The children´s heart beats for you. Thank you.

29 SEPTEMBER WORLD HEART DAY

Each year 76,000 children are born in Antioquia, 760 of whom have heart conditions; nationally there are as many as 8,000 children born annually with cardiovascular conditions. The majority of these children are low socio-economic status, with little or no access to healthcare and treatment.

OUT OF EVERY 1000 CHILDREN SUFFER FROM CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

40% of these suffer critical pathologies requiring some type of intervention

Hearts diseases are responsible for 6% to 10% of global child deaths, and 20% to 40% of congenital defect deaths, and are the third cause of death of children in intensive care units, after prematurity and infections.

Today your heart will make an ill child's heart beat!