OUR CHILDREN
Paradise
Lost, and Regained- The Holness family of Jamaica - Michael, ShellyAnn,
and their two young daughters, Natasha and Antonique - live in a lush
village, nestled in the rolling hills west of Montego Bay. It looks
like paradise - until you take a closer look. . . click
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The Trials of Lirjon Rexhaj
At the tender
age of seven, Lirjon Rexhaj has experienced more heartbreak than most
of us witness in a lifetime. Lirjon was born in the Kosovo republic
of Yugoslavia, right in the middle of the ethnic, religious, and regional
battles that engulfed the Balkan states in the 1990s.
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visit.
Chika Ike's Experience
On Wednesday,
September 23, 2002 NYU Medical Center's Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery,
Stephen B. Colvin, MD, performed life-saving heart surgery on Chika
Ike, a 16 year-old girl from Nigeria. The child developed severe valvular
heart disease as a result of contracting rheumatic fever when she
was 7 years old. Born in Otolo - Nnewi, a remote village in Southeastern
Nigeria, regional hospitals were unequipped to perform the life-saving
heart surgery she needed to survive. Over the past year her condition
became increasingly critical and an urgent appeal was made to the
Nigerian community both here and abroad.
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Deepak's
Experience
Deepak is from Guyana, one of the poorest countries in South America.
Rheumatic fever, rare in the United States, is a common occurrence
in Deepak's world. Poverty is its underlying cause, a disease of deprivation
that erodes the health status of the Guyanese population, and especially
its children.
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here to visit his photo album
Bra'a Hussein's Experience
Four-year old
Bra’a Hussein’s heart will never be the same following
recent surgery at NYU Medical Center to correct a highly complex congenital
heart condition called tetralogy of fallot. The abnormality, which
is comprised of four heart defects, starved the little girl’s
body of oxygen, causing her to pass out and nearly die on several
occasions. Dr. Stephen Colvin, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery and
Co-founder of Project Kids Worldwide, performed the five-hour surgery
on the child who traveled with her mother, Najwa, thousands of miles
from their war-torn home of Baghdad.
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album
