NGO Working for Poor Children Born with Congenital Heart Disease
Child Heart Foundation is a child help NGO which aim to provide financial help and support to the underprivileged family who has children born with congenital heart disease. Raising funds for the heart surgery of these poor children is our prime objective. The world knows us an NGO built for helping children with heart defects born in underprivileged families. Our focus is to help the families who are indigent or needy and can't meet the financial requirements for heart surgery or intervention.
In India there are many NGO working for poor children in the field of education, health, food, rehabilitation and many more but in the field of congenital heart disease affected children coming from underprivileged families Child Heart Foundation is the only one. The NGO came into existence in the year 2013 when 7 parents facing the common challenge came up together and formed an NGO by the name Child Heart Foundation. They dream of a world where no children born with congenital heart disease is left untreated. Since then the NGO is helping poor children with evaluation, treatment and management of the deadly heart defect. CHF was started with an idea by parents who have been through similar situations and have gotten over with their tough part of life and now want to contribute to the underprivileged families.
Our vision includes early diagnosis of congenital heart disease in Indian children and to provide appropriate treatment to them with internationally accepted mortality and morbidity. Make every effort to take pediatric cardiac treatment within the reach of every child irrespective of the financial status of the family in which the child is born. To have regional pediatric cardiac centers in all states where even the poor families can come and seek treatment of their children free of cost.
Our mission includes treating each child with heart disease. Educate the next generation of pediatric cardiologists do neonatal and pediatric echo and diagnose heart problems in the womb of the mother and start the treatment process. Make pediatric cardiology centers in the country technically strong and introduce latest scientific advancement in them. Become helping hand to the government bodies for the treatment of poor children with heart disease. Making every heart smile is the motto of this NGO as we strongly believe in giving smile to every young heart irrespective of the status of the child. We try to operate every child with born heart defect irrespective of his/her financial condition. Till now we have successfully funded 37 heart surgeries of financial weak children in India.
We follow simple steps of registration in our NGO. Every thursday we conduct free OPDs at our South Delhi based office. The doctor verifies the problem registers the children under the NGO. Registration includes submission of the income proof of the father and referral letter from a doctor. After registration their appeal and details of the required treatment are circulated into the social media and to several CSR departments of the public sector units along with crowd funding websites. Once the required funds are collected for the heart surgery the child is admitted for treatment. NGO not only helps poor children before the surgery but also after the surgery as free follow ups are provided by the NGO.
Abut the author:
Sunita Harkar Shalla is the operations head of this NGO and also the writer of this blog. She has a keen interest in writing for Non-profit organizations in India. In this blog she has emphasized on free heart surgery for child in Delhi and NGO working for children with heart defects. Her language is simple and easily understandable.