welcome to haitian hearts

Dr. John Carroll is spending the first two weeks of summer working at a Cholera Treatment Center at Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, Haiti. Deschapelles is in the Artibonite Valley, north of Port-au-Prince, and is where the initial cholera outbreak occurred in October 2010. You can read about John's important work on the blog he is writing for the Peoria Journal Star. http://blogs.pjstar.com/haiti/2011/06/22/cholera-clinic-wednesday-morningjune-22-2011/ He very movingly describes the toll cholera is taking on Haitians and their heroism in helping each other and trying to stay alive.

Haitian Hearts is dedicated to saving the lives of children. We bring children and young adults in desperate need of heart surgery from Haiti, a terribly impoverished country only 600 miles from Florida, to the United States for life-saving medical treatment.

During the past 15 years, we’ve brought 140 patients to the United States and helped thousands more in Haiti through our general medical work in clinics and hospitals. And for each individual Haitian Hearts has helped, we know countless others have benefited from the improved health of their family member, friend, or neighbor.

Please take a moment to learn about our work and the beautiful children we serve. We’d love you to join us in this life-saving adventure.