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What's New Socheat's Heart Mission: Acknowledgments Hearts Without Boundaries is on Facebook! Peter Chhun's Retirement Part One
Part Two Peter is currently in Cambodia assisting Variety Children's Lifeline with heart-surgery missions at Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap. 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 5-YEAR PLAN While our work is tremendously gratifying, it is only a drop in the bucket. Tragically there are thousands of children in Cambodia who have congenital heart defects and require procedures/facilities that are currently not available in their country. In order to aid these children, Hearts Without Boundaries is working with a group of doctors and hospitals in the United States to build a state-of-the-art cardiac facility at Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) in Siem Reap with a cardiac catheterization laboratory which can also be used to perform open-heart surgeries.
OUR VISION We would envision, for the short-term, having visiting pediatric cardiologists perform cardiac catheterization procedures that can help many of these children, including those with PDAs, heart valve problems, and holes in their hearts. Eventually, open-heart surgery would be performed by other visiting teams on the remainder of the children who have cardiac defects that are not amenable to cardiac catheterization procedures, but could have a favorable outcome after having open-heart surgery. The ultimate goal would be to recruit a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon to be based at AHC to perform open-heart surgeries on a regular basis. We would expect that within approximately five years, AHC would be able to function as an independent pediatric cardiac center with the capacity to provide definitive care to most of the children in Cambodia who have serious congenital heart defects. MISSIONS IN THE U.S. In 2008, Hearts Without Boundaries sponsored two successful lifesaving open-heart surgeries in the U.S. for a 9 year-old girl and an 11 month-old boy. Both now live normal, healthy lives back in their remote villages in Cambodia. 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. MISSIONS IN CAMBODIA In the last 3 heart surgery missions at Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Hearts Without Boundaries assisted cardiac teams from UCSD/Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego performing 86 heart surgeries on children suffering from patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), a leaky-heart condition that causes the lungs to fill with blood. Most Cambodian children with this condition will die prematurely. In addition, we also provide medications and and nutritional supplements, rice and noodles, educational supplies to needy children and parents in rural areas. 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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