Children’s Heart Project

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  • Estados Unidos

    When they arrive in the city for their surgery, the child, caregiver, and interpreter are hosted, fed, and cared for by a local family in connection to a local church.

  • Estados Unidos

    Children's Heart Project facilitates scores of life-saving surgeries for children born with congenital heart defects in Bolivia, Mongolia, and Uganda every year.

  • Uganda

    In their home country, children can attend a week-long Heart Camp to meet other kids who are a part of Children's Heart Project.

  • Uganda

    At Heart Camp, kids hear the Word of God, pray, and learn more about what it means to follow the Lord.

  • Uganda

    The Heart Camps allow children to realize more fully that they are physically healed—they can run and play just like other boys and girls.

  • Uganda

    7-year-old Francis, who loves playing with toy airplanes and has a knack for making people laugh, also battled a life-threatening heart defect. His family was unable to provide the life-saving medical care he needed until they connected with Children’s Heart Project, a program of Samaritan’s Purse.

  • Grand Cayman

    Children who receive life-saving treatment through the Samaritan's Purse Children's Heart Project are afforded the chance to grow and live healthy, beautiful lives that may have otherwise not been possible.

  • Grand Cayan

    For more than 25 years, Children's Heart Project has arranged critical cardiac surgeries for boys and girls in more than a dozen countries.

  • Children's Heart Project works with top-quality hospitals to provide surgery for children who live in countries where the required medical expertise and equipment are not available.

  • Families often lose hope that their young children will ever live a normal life after being diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. Children’s Heart Project exists to restore hope through physical and spiritual healing which comes from the Hope of Jesus Christ.

  • Partner doctors explain the child’s heart problem and upcoming procedures to his caregiver. For some, it is the first time someone has taken the time to help them understand their child’s condition.

  • Please pray for the children, families, and communities impacted by Children’s Heart Project as God continues to work in their lives after they return home.

  • Children's Heart Project interpreters stay with the child and caregiver at a host family’s home. As they bridge the language gap, they also share the Gospel.

  • Samaritan’s Purse staff and volunteers show God’s love to the children and their families throughout the process of screening, traveling, surgery, and recovery.

  • While providing critical heart surgeries for children, we pray that God will open hearts to His eternal healing through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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