A chance for little hearts

This project was created as part of Vodafone Ukraine's charity program "A Good Deed as a Gift".

Vodafone Ukraine has developed a simple way to get involved in charity: subscribers transfer bonus points from the My Vodafone app to support children in need.

This project involves five children with congenital heart defects. Most of them look completely healthy until something ordinary happens – a cold, a run, physical education. That's when the defect makes itself known, and the price of delay can be very high. The modern solution is endovascular surgery with the installation of a cardiac implant. No incisions, no long recovery. In just a few days, the child can be home. But the cost of an occluder implant ranges from 49,500 to 140,000 hryvnia – an amount that most families simply cannot afford on their own.

Every point transferred is part of the journey to surgery for one of these five children.

Yevheniia Yatsenko, born November 21, 2023, Khmelnytskyi Oblast. Yevheniia was born prematurely and was frequently ill from the first months of her life. When the girl was only 4 months old, doctors diagnosed her with a congenital heart defect. For two years, the child was under the care of specialists at the M. M. Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery. In March 2026, doctors announced the need for an endovascular procedure to close the defect. This is Yevgeniya’s chance to live a full life without a constant threat to her health. However, the cost of the occluder is beyond the family’s means. 

Mykhailo Dmytrenko, born April 14, 2018, Poltava Oblast. Doctors diagnosed 8-year-old Mykhailo with a congenital heart defect, specifically a patent ductus arteriosus. To prevent complications and ensure the child’s normal development, he urgently needs endovascular surgery to implant an occluder. The family cannot afford the cost of the implant on their own, so they have turned to us for help.