- About Gift Of Life
Hearts For Little Angels
Almost 1% of children born in the Philippines every year are born with Congenital Heart Disease. That's almost 16,000 babies!
About 25% of them need heart surgery or other interventions to survive.
Who We Are and What We Do
Lending a Helping Hand - Our goal is to help to those less fortunate kids in the Philippines who were born with a hole in their heart or other serious congenital heart disease.
Gift of Life International receives more requests for help from parents of children with heart disease in the Philippines than any other country around the world. In Gift of Life International effort to respond to the tremendous need, they have partnered with the Rotary Club of Makati West Gift of Life Program to coordinate surgeries and caths to be performed at local hospitals within Manila. Until October 2021, a total of 1,655, with 700 In RY 20-21 alone Filipino children were treated through the Makati West program.
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Stories of our babies
Children with CHD usually cannot play with children their own age, because they have no energy. That makes them lonely and sad. They tend to be underweight and even malnourished. Instead of normal play, they are usually carried by a parent and are often sick. Surgeries not only save their lives, they become “normal,” happy and achieving.
Sharmaine
Sharmaine was 10 years old when she was operated on in DLSMC for PDA Device Closure on October 15, 2020.
Edrrey
Edrrey was 4 years old when he was operated with VSD surgery in National Children's Hospital on February 13, 2020.
Danyle
Danyle was 8 months old when she was operated with PDA Device Closure in De Los Santos Medical Center on March 4, 2021.
Adrian
Adrian was operated in DLSMC on August 6, 2020 for PDA Device Closure. He was 16 years old then. He is the youngest of 9 siblings of Eduardo and Vicky.
Precious
Precious was 8 years old during the time of the surgery on September 23, 2020 in DLSMC. She was diagnosed with PDA at birth but was not treated.