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HWB plans a 2nd medical mission for July or August 2012 After our medical team repaired the hearts of 15 underprivileged Cambodian children last January, we have received a number of calls from parents looking for a miracle. Their voices have prompted Hearts Without Boundaries to send more teams this year. To read and see pictures of our mission please go to PHOTOS. We are in the planning stage to send a 2nd medical team to repair more little hearts, this time, at the "heart center" of Jayavarman VII hospital in Siem Reap. HWB is currently working closely with Dr. Beat Richner, founder and head of Kuntha Bopha hospitals in Cambodia. The lead pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon of next mission will be Dr. Rodrigo Soto from Santiago, Chile. On April 26, 2010, Dr. Soto and his team from the International Children's Heart Foundation performed life-extending heart surgery on our third child, Socheat Nga, in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Socheat now lives a healthy and normal life back at her village. Socheat's Heart Mission: Acknowledgments In the meantime, HWB is looking for a hospital and cardiac team in the U.S. that can provide lifesaving open-heart surgery for a fifth child, a 4 year-old Cambodian girl. This impoverished girl suffers from severe congenital heart defects. She lives in a remote village in Prey Veng Province, not far from our fourth child Bunlak Song. Bunlak now lives a healthy and normal life back at his village. Hearts Without Boundaries is on Facebook!
WELCOME Today, the call for action has never been clearer, more urgent, or more desperate. From the genocide in Cambodia to a brutal war in Iraq; earthquakes in the mountains of Pakistan to tsunami-ravaged coasts of Thailand; flooding in Louisiana as drought worsens in Africa; an unremitting barrage of world suffering has cast enormous hardship and fear across the globe. HEARTS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES is a global VOLUNTEER organization providing help to the victims and to those wanting to help themselves. It is a non-profit corporation 501(c)(3), which was established to provide humanitarian services such as volunteer medical teams, medical supplies and clinics, as well as humanitarian aid and livestock to those in need, mainly in Cambodia and other areas in Southeast Asia. While the organization's primary focus will be on Southeast Asia, Hearts Without Boundaries will also respond to global emergencies, whether man-made or natural. Click here to meet our members OUR REASON For the first time, Hearts Without Boundaries was able to offer life-extending heart surgeries to destitute Cambodian children in their home country rather than bringing them to the United States. During a five-day medical mission in January 2012, doctors from California and Wisconsin repaired the hearts of 15 impoverished children free of charge at Angkor Hospital for Children - all paid for by Hearts Without Boundaries and Variety Children's Lifeline International. For Hearts Without Boundaries, which has brought four children to the United States for surgeries over the last four years, the recent medical mission was a blessing and proved to be a much more efficient way to treat the children. In five days, the number of children treated was more than three times what the nonprofit achieved over the past four years. The cost, being modest, was just a little over $3,000 per child. The added benefit of these missions is that surgeons train Cambodian health professionals to be able to one day perform the surgeries.
Their journeys to find medical care halfway around the world have touched so many hearts, and also have been chronicled in many newspapers and television broadcasts around the globe. OUR PLAN While our work is tremendously gratifying, it is only a drop in the bucket. Tragically, recent research shows more than 100,000 children in Cambodia suffer from congenital heart defects, with very few ever receiving treatment. In order to aid these children and continue to train local health staff, Hearts Without Boundaries is working with YOU, as donors, to send more medical teams from the United States and other countries to work at least once every six months at the cardiac facility in Cambodia. It is a WIN-WIN project. OUR VISION Our group of doctors that once performed minor repairs, called PDAs, has been able to discontinue performing these surgeries because physicians at Angkor Hospital are now able to do them. At this time, we envision sending more medical teams from the United States and other countries to perform mainly open-heart surgery at the local "heart center". Besides saving the lives of impoverished children, the ultimate goal would be to train the local pediatric cardiothoracic surgeons to perform open-heart surgeries on a regular basis. We would expect that within approximately five years, the local health professionals will be able to provide definitive care as an independent pediatric cardiac team to most of the children in Cambodia who have serious congenital heart defects. MISSION STATEMENT "Hearts Without Boundaries doesn't retain any paid staff. Therefore, one hundred percent of all donations to HWB cover the general expenses of our yearly medical missions to Cambodia. These expenses help to cover cardiac teams from the United States and other countries go to perform heart surgeries on destitute children suffering from less complicated congenital heart defects. It also provides transportation to the U.S. and other countries, as well as medical care for impoverished Cambodian children suffering from severe heart defects, providing medications and nutritional supplements, rice and noodles, and educational supplies to needy children and parents in rural areas of Cambodia." In addition, we work closely with other nonprofit organizations in fighting the fast growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. HELP / DONATE We are now happily accepting your gracious donation through Paypal service, the secure and easier way to pay online. We greatly appreciate your generosity.
Hearts Without Boundaries is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization as classified and recognized by the IRS. Your donation may be fully deductible under IRS guidelines. Please consult your tax advisor as to the full benefits of giving to an IRS recognized 501 (c) (3) organization. Federal Tax ID# 32-0174536. With much respect,
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