Celebrating Life
Celebrating Life
Fundraising for EMERGENCY
Story
WELCOME to a page full of LIFE and CELEBRATIONS!
The main purpose of this page is to fund 10 OPEN HEART VALVE REPLACEMENTS at the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, near Karthoum, Sudan.
www.emergencyuk.org/salam-centre-for-cardiac-surgery
Another purpose is for you to feel the joy of celebrating life, whilst giving.
One recommandation: do it often and make it viral!
The story of this page.
The idea popped up in September 2014, when trying to find a suitable wedding present for my friends Andrea and Emaida.
This page has been built to celebrate their joy as a married couple and embrace their way of thinking. #likemindedpeople
Why Emergency UK.
I selected Emergency UK because I believe all of us, without distinction, deserve free healthcare and fully equipped hospitals.
We are all human beings, with the same fears and hopes, after all.
The initial target is £25.000 for these reasons:
- the idea of funding 10 open heart valve replacements brings joy on its own
- I trust your generosity
How my personal experience contributed to the choice of charity.
Very selfishly, I often ask myself, what if my heart fails whilst in the middle of a trip across Africa, whether for work or pleasure?
Last time it happened, I survived.
I was rushed to the West Middlesex University Hospital Intensive Therapy Unit in London.
This hospital is fully equipped and employs highly trained doctors and nurses.
Here is my dilemma:
was I lucky, blessed or simply a privileged human being?
Certainly, I am a grateful person now.
Thank you Dr Rivers.
Thank you ITU.
Thank you West Mid H.
ITU is an essential space and means life!
Let's have more ITU around the world.
Let's invest in life.
An final message:
Thank you all, for celebrating life and giving.
God bless.
Namaste x
Contact: likemindedpeople@mail.com
Facts and figures:
The cost of an open heart valve replacement at the Emergency Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery is approx. £2500
6084 (4434 of which, due to Valvular Heart Diseases) is the number of surgical operations at the Emergency Salam Centre for Cadiac Surgery, from April 2007 to July 2015
The operative mortality rate at the Emergency Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery is only 3.02% thanks to the strict standards of hygiene and the high level of commitment and experience of staff
In 2014, the British Government's Department for International Development (DfID) has funded Emergency's Ebola Treatment Centres in Sierra Leone
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If you are a UK Tax Payer Justgiving.com reclaims an extra 25% in Gift Aid from HMRC.
The EMERGENCY'S centre in Goderich, Sierra Leone, has an Intensive Therapy Unit, the only one of its kind in the country
Justgiving.com deducts 5% fee on each donation, but it garantees a fast service and saves paperwork to both the charity and the fundraiser.
Other payment fees: Credit Card (1.3%), MasterCard debit card (flat rate of 16p), Visa Debit or Electron (flat rate of 17p), PayPal (1.45%)
In summary: if you are a UK tax payer, pay by credit card and donate £10, the charity receives £11.74.
EMERGENCY Hospital in Sierra Leone has been declared the "Best Medical Institution in Sierra Leone"
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