FINANCIAL SUPPORT (Gift of Life Club)

Save-A-Heart Foundation needs support and assistance in the following areas:

A Special Gift...

Express your unconditional support of our program by providing a financial gift of life. While any amount is welcome, we are grateful to sponsors who will elect to fund the cost of a single case or more ( "Surgical sponsorship" ). In DR there are more than 800 new cases per year that need cardiac surgery or an interventional cardiac catheterization procedure (± 30%). Fortunately more than 70% of them are simple defects that treated early in life can restore their problem as well as good quality of life.  

The average cost for those simple procedures in our hands is approximately eight thousands dollars (US $ 8.000, range $6.000 - 10.000) per case, a fraction of similar procedures/cost done elsewhere (USA, Europe, etc.).  

We also encourage corporate participation (professional athletes, artist, diverse philanthropist entrepreneurs, etc.) in co-marketing programs where a percentage of sale proceeds are donated to Save-A-Heart Foundation.

As a first step, these past years, local’s and foreigner Rotarian, aside local entrepreneurs as Mrs. Mariela Vicini provided us funds enough to operates within our supervised programs a bunch of kids, but still is not enough. Would you like to copy this type of initiatives? Or how many surgeries can you support?

So please take a moment to consider how you can help save the precious life of a child who is struggling with debilitating congenital or acquired heart defects.

MATERIAL SUPPORT

Express your support through the gift of surplus capital equipment, disposable surgical supplies, pharmaceuticals and toys.

We have leaned that most (> 95%) of these pathologies are diagnosed by a simple and noninvasive technique: an echocardiogram. In order to enforce our rural or marginal access for triage of these heart defects in those areas it is imperative to have a portable echocardiogram machine.