Save a child's heart

This project was created and supported by Vodafone Ukraine's charity programme "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 always 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 the little patients of the Amosov Institute are discharged home on the third day. It is called an occluder. And the cost of heart implants can vary from UAH 41,000 to 119,000.

Thanks to this project, one child's life will be saved. 

Mykhailo Yevhenovych Parfyonov, born 03.05.2022 in Vinnytsia. When Mykhailo was three months old, during a routine check-up at the doctor's office, his mother was told about heart murmurs and sent the child for an ultrasound. The ultrasound showed a congenital heart defect. After that, the family's life changed: every two months, the boy is seen by a cardiologist. After the last examination at the Amosov Institute, it was decided that heart surgery was necessary to eliminate the defect, as changes in the heart had begun to occur. Mykhailo needs the operation urgently.  Only his father works in the family.  His mother is on maternity leave. Mykhailo also has an older sister. The family turned to the Foundation for help.

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