Saving a child with a heart defect

This project was created and supported by Vodafone Ukraine's charity program "A Good Deed as a Gift".

The mobile operator has created a mechanism for its subscribers to do good deeds easily. To help, it is enough to transfer any number of bonuses to charity. In turn, each subscriber receives them in the My Vodafone app, where their balance is displayed and they can be used for charity, among other things. The main goal of the charity initiative is to turn subscriber bonuses into saved hearts of little Ukrainians.

Congenital heart disease is one of the leading problems faced by hundreds of children every year. It is insidious and dangerous, because a visually healthy child is constantly at risk. And any ordinary seasonal illness or physical activity can be fatal. However, there is a simple and modern, but very expensive solution to this problem for ordinary Ukrainian families - the elimination of heart disease through endovascular surgery and the installation of a heart implant. The surgeries are performed without a chest incision, last a few hours, and on the third day the little patients of the Amosov Institute are discharged home. It is called an occluder. The cost of heart implants can vary from 41,000 hryvnias to 119,947.

Thanks to the project, the life of a young patient of the Amosov Institute will be saved.

Darya Artemivna Belchug, born on 18.05.2020, from the village of Liubashivka, Odesa region. 

Daria's parents found out about her heart defect when the child was 3 years and 3 months old. Since birth, the girl has been often ill, usually with severe complications. During one of her hospital stays at the Regional Children's Hospital in Odesa, the girl underwent a full examination, during which a congenital heart defect was discovered.  

Daria is a cheerful and joyful child who has many dreams. Her parents want to see their daughter healthy and happy, but they do not have the financial means to raise funds for a heart implant to save her heart. The family asked for help.