Free Heart Surgeries for Rio's Poor Children
Fee heart surgery Brazil
Summary
Provides access for poor families to medical professionals and life-saving heart surgeries for children who languish in sub-substandard medical situations and can die from inadequate care.
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $4,500 was raised for this project. Other Projects Run By Dreams Can Be Foundation That You Can Help
|
Received $4,500 from 71 donations from people like:
|
|
Terhi
|
Tercio
|
Cristiano
|
Rich
|
Actions
Printer Friendly
Subscribe to Email Updates
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Share & Save this Project
Spread the Word
Tell a Friend
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Tag on del.icio.us
More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Poor children born with cardiac problems need surgery, but have trouble getting care from public hospitals, which lack physical and infrastructural resources. A large number of poor children born with cardiac problems die waiting for treatment. If they do receive treatment from the public health system, it is generally by doctors without adequate skills. When the case is complex, treatment can endanger rather than improve the child's condition. Rio has no children’s hospital.
Activities
Each child undergoes a detailed assessment consisting of medical examinations, ECG, and echocardiogram. Diagnosis and treatment are carried out by a professional team of specialists. Once the diagnosis is made the treatment is determined.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $4,500
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $4,500 . The original project funding goal was $4,500.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
There is nothing sadder than a parent who is unable to save a dying child simply because he does not have the financial resources required. Every life is precious.
Project Message
Taking care of these young lives, we learn that being able to serve is a great privilege: the privilege to replace with a smile the expression of pain on... a child suffering from heart disease.
- Dr.Rosa Célia Pimentel Barbosa, Founder and Director of ProCrianca Cardiaca
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Rosa Célia Pimentel Barbosa
Founder and Director of ProCrianca Cardiaca
Rua Dona Mariana #40
Botafogo
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 22280-020
Brazil
011 55 (21)2527-7169
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Dreams Can Be Foundation
Dreams Can Be Foundation 945 Menoher Blvd.
Johnstown,
PA
15905
United States
(814) 255-4379
http://www.dreamscanbe.org/
Dreams Can Be Foundation's Current Projects on GlobalGiving
 Lunch for Children in Free NGO Day-Care Center |
 After-School Program educates Rio’s excluded youth |
 Music & Education Program for Disadvantaged Youths |
Dreams Can Be Foundation's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Brazil
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about Brazil, read the Human Development Report on Brazil or the Wikipedia entry for Brazil.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 31, 2005
Latest Update from the Field
Update for donors and inf on new children's hospital
By Dra. Rosa Celia Barbosa - Founder of Project, March 29, 2007 04:10 PM
Attachments:
Read 1 more "Updates from the Field"
Subscribe to "Updates from the Field" by E-Mail
Subscribe to RSS Feed
