Life-Saving Congenital Heart Disease Surgery for Children in Honduras
Help us help kids with Congenital heart disease in Honduras
What Is Congenital Heart Disease - and Why Honduras Needs Your Help?
Helping Hands for Honduras, Inc. is a non-profit, tax-exempt, charitable organization incorporated under the direction of the Board of Directors, aiming to help children with Congenital Heart Disease in Honduras.
Congenital heart disease (CHD), also known as congenital heart defects, are conditions that we, as a society, hardly know about. Despite this, the fact is that 1% of the world's population is born with a heart condition - which makes it the most common birth defect. Most congenital heart defects can be repaired with a single surgery, but others may require two or more interventions. In some developed countries, there are hundreds of medical centers with trained personnel in the pediatric cardiovascular field to attend to congenital heart defects. In third-world countries, particularly in Honduras, this type of medical care is not available for children suffering from heart defects.
Helping Hands for Honduras, Inc. was established in the year 2000, a time when Honduras had no pediatric cardiovascular surgeons who could perform open-heart surgeries and lacked adequate facilities to operate. Thus, Helping Hands for Honduras sent Honduran children to the United States for corrective heart surgery.
The Helping Hands for Honduras mission has evolved to not only sending children to the United States but to bringing surgery teams to Honduras to treat patients and train Honduran medical professionals to care for these children.
What does Helping Hands for Honduras do?
Helping Hands for Honduras provides life-saving cardiac care to children in Honduras with congenital heart defects through medical mission trips, partnerships, and access to specialized surgeries.
How many children have been helped by this charity?
On average, we aim to help around 150 children and young adults annually through surgeries and medical support programs.