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Matching Grant #
51313 - RC of Salem Mid-Town, India D2980
Gift of Life Heart Surgery Project
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There are many children born with life-threatening
heart defects in India each year. Without surgery, these children will
weaken and die as they grow into adolescence and adulthood, if not much,
much sooner. These are surgeries that would be done routinely in
the USA shortly after birth.
We call these Gift of Life surgeries since the children
will die without them.
Our partner club is the Rotary Club of Salem Mid-Town,
in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
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The Rotary Club of Salem Mid-Town has been very active in other projects
as well, such as this artificial limb project pictured here.
A Rotarian from Australia came to assist in fitting the artificial
limbs.
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The Gift of Life Project (MG 51313) got underway on January 25, 2004
with a screening camp held to identify the 15 children who would benefit
from these surgeries.
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Local doctors evaluated many infants and children to select the 15 we
will be able to help with this grant.
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A child being screened.
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A newspaper clipping from the local Salem, India
newspaper highlighting the screening camp.
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Our first patient has her surgery:
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Dr. Balasundaram, two very grateful parents
and a nurse with our first patient receiving
Rotary's Gift of Life through this grant.
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Dr. B. checks on our little patient.
Thanks, Dr. Balasundaram, for caring so much
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Our second patient
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Another recent patient
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Our most recent patient -
5 year old boy
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Our sixth patient, 7 year old Vijayaraj, is recovering well.
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Ms. Vijayalakshmi, age 18.
Surgery done in March 2005
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Two year old Kaliraj also had his heart repaired in March
2005, our eighth patient.
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Our ninth and tenth patient included four year old Vignesh, above, ...
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and two year old Shanmugapriyan.
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Ms. Amudha, 17, with her parents.
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15-year-old Ramesh, successfully recuperating.
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Master Prakash, age 5, our 13th patient
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10 year old Induja is our 14th patient
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Kottaisamy, age 16, is our 15th patient.
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Baby Sathya, 2 years old is the 18th child assisted through our grant.
Due to additional funding from other sources and also excellent fiscal
management by our project Rotarians, we have been able to help more than
the original 15 children.
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7 year old Kaleeswari is the 19th child helped
through Matching Grant 51313.
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This project was designed to save the lives of 15 young people.
Through the hard work of our partners in the Rotary Club of Salem
Mid-Town, India, we were able to help 20 children instead. Our thanks to
our project partners ! Great job !
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All children's heart surgeries have been
sponsored by donations to the Annual Programs Fund of our Rotary
Foundation. Thank you.
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Sponsoring Clubs 2003-2004
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Arnold - 2 children
Bowling Green - 1 child
Cape Girardeau West - 3 children
Chesterfield - 3 children
Des Peres - 2 child
Festus-Crystal City - 2 children
High Ridge - 1 child
Lambert Airport - 1 child
Louisiana - 1 child
Overland - 2 children
Poplar Bluff - 1 child
Sikeston - 1 child
St. Louis - 1 child
St. Louis County - 1 child
Washington - 1 child
Webster Groves - 3 children
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Sponsoring Clubs 2004-2005
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Cape Girardeau - 1 child
Clayton-Ladue-1 child
Louisiana - 1 child
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Sponsoring Clubs 2005-2006
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Des Peres - 1 child
St. Louis - 2 children
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Project status: PROJECT COMPLETED.
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Basic
fact sheet about how to participate in our gift of life project
Flyer
to take information about this project back to your club.
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Gift
of Life Child sponsorship - donation in name of Rotarian
(Rotarian __________ of the
Rotary Club of ________ has made a
donation to sponsor a Gift of
Life surgery to save the life of a child)
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