Gift of Life News
Cardiac Care for Mexican Children in District 7980
Feb 25, 2010
Members for OUR Mexican Pediatric Cardiovascular surgical team are here as well, hagain volunteering their time and skills to fix the broken little hearts of these impoverished children as they do, throughout the year in Mexico. Our team this week is being lead by Rotarian Humberto Rodriguez, MD, a Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgeon, who is certainly among the worldʼs best. He lives in Monterrey! Dr. Armando Guzman our anesthesiologist, who also lives in Monterrey, spent his childhood in Victoria. These physicians not only have incredible skills and knowledge, they are humble, loving and truly care about each child they touch. They continue to enriched my life more and more as the years go by, they are mi amigos.
Kids in Chiapas ....With Broken Hearts..... Got ‘em Fixed!
Feb 24, 2010
Chiapas is one of the poorest states in Mexico with a population of an estimated 3.4 million people, of which 700,000 are direct descendents of the Mayas. Many of these people live in one room dirt floor, houses constructed of wood slats and mud. Comitan is a small colonial city located approximately 40 miles north of the Guatemalan border high in the Sierra Madre mountain range, at an estimated 7,000 feet above sea level.
Gift of Life Doc Recognized
Feb 23, 2010
On June 25, 2008 Rotarian Humberto Rodriquez-Saldaña, MD was named “Rotarian Of The Year” and recognized with a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Club of Monterrey, Mexico which he is a member. He was recognized for his incredible humanitarian commitment to the children of the world by giving the Gift of Life.
Santiago, Dominican Republic July - August 2008
Feb 22, 2010
Our team has completed our first highly successful week of surgery at the Hospital Infantil Regional Universitario Dr.
Arturo Grullon in Santiago, Dominican Republic. This mission was organized by International Children’s Heart Foundation located in Memphis, Tennessee and support by several Gift of Life organizations and Rotary Clubs.
Annual Crusade of the Heart Fundraising
Feb 4, 2010
The Rotary District 7230 Gift of Life Foundation held it's annual Crusade of the Heart Fundraising event on February 4, 2010.
Nina enferma espera permiso medico para regresar a su pais
Dec 1, 2009
Abel Nuwahereza, un campesino de Uganda con seis hijos y una esposa, se enteró hace dos años de que su hija Sharon estaba enferma. “Se cansaba mucho”, dice en suahili a su intérprete, mientras la niña, que ahora tiene seis años, salta y juega en la Casa Ronald McDonald en la zona 11 de la capital.
A heart-y reunion Survivors show gratitude to saviours
Oct 22, 2009
In a traditional dance they performed before an audience of surgeons and the Rotarian fraternity, among other organisations present, the girls wore tops but the boys wore no shirts. And the long vertical scars on each of their chests clearly showing the mark left behind by the surgeon’s blades were bared for all to see. These were survivors of heart surgeries. The children danced and recited poems in gratitude to the different partners that worked together to save their lives.
During this Deepawali* 6 Children will get
Oct 14, 2009
Our MG project implementation function of donating ambulance to National Heart Institute, New Delhi on 24th October 2009 at 11 a.m. (Saturday) at NHI premises has been postponed.
William Pickens - Finalist, Volunteer of the Year Award
Sep 27, 2009
Bill Pickens gives a simple reason for his passion for the Gift of Life program, which provides life-saving surgery to children from developing countries.
Rotarian Reunited with Gift of Life Recipient
Jun 16, 2009
Twenty-six years later Rotarian Frank Rasbury reunites with Brett Halvorson, Gift of Life recipient
