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Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia

•“Cradle of Civilization”

•Geopolitics

•Living conditions

Ethiopia’s situation

Population•75 Million inhabitants

•50% national health coverage

•80% live in rural areas

•GNP per capita $105 per year

Addis Ababa

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Children’s Health issues

•600,000 children between 5 and 15 years old are at risk of developing strep throat infections twice a year.

•About 120,000 are estimated to develop rheumatic fever every year.

•The young are at high risk of developing rheumatic heart diseases.

•Patients die at and early age of complications like intractable congestive heart failure and arrhythmia, absent surgery of valvular lesions.

Country’s Health System

“The only thing that stands between 24 million children and endemic heart disease risk is a small group working out of a storage container in Addis Ababa.”

Dr. Belay Abegaz

CHFE - making a difference

THREEFOLD OBJECTIVES

•Curative

•Preventive

•Developmental

Current Office•900 children airlifted to the US, Great Britain, Israel, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and other countries

•150 cared for by visiting medical teams from the US and Great Britain

CHFEexcellent

connections •Influential Board members

•Active partners and associates

•Business, civic, governmental and academic support.

•International support.

CHFE Staff

Mrs. Selamnesh T/Haimanot Medical Social Worker

Director and Board Secretary: Ato Tesfaye Birhanu, DirectorThe Children's Heart Fund of EthiopiaP. O. Box 2382Addis Ababa, Ethiopia E-mail: chfe@ethionet.et Tel. 251.1.5515435/5513636

Administration

ArchivesJohannes

Transportation

Ms. Yemisratch Atnaf PR Officer

CHFE Cardiac CenterBeing built on the premises of the Black Lion hospital in Addis Ababa. Sample of accommodations:

•2 operating rooms

•2 Recovery rooms

•Anesthesia rooms

•10 patient rooms

•Intensive care unit

CHFE Cardiac centerconstruction progress

• Ahead of schedule for completion before year end.

• “Delivering quadruplets” Four important elements must come together for its successful operating completion:

1. Hospital

2. Equipment

3. Manpower development

4. Ensuring sustainability by establishing a fund generating program

CHFE cardiac center“the point of no return”

CHFEresearch and education

Addis Ababa University Medical School

CHFE – Regional magnet

Reason for name CHFE and not ECHF

CHFEFuture Rehabilitation Center

•Income generation building

•Rehabilitation center

•Accommodations for visiting teams, specialists, etc.

•Guest house for parents traveling with children

•CHFE administration offices

•Cafeteria, etc.

CHFE – International support

HTC – CHFE

Linking Arms

CHFE: International Partners

and supporters

• Healing the Children• Chain of Hope• Project C.U.R.E.• Save a Child’s Heart• Medical teams from the US, Great Britain,

the Netherlands, Germany (Leipzig University), Israel.

• Children airlifted to all these countries, as well as Italy and India.

Chain of Hope proposes to supply the Pediatric Cardiac Center with

TWO Cardiac Catheterization Labs

Equipment necessary for the Operating Rooms and Intensive Care Unit

Enter into a five year contract with CHFE and the Medical University of Addis Ababa to develop a curriculum for the training of Cardiac surgeons, pediatric cardiologists, adult cardiologists and other essential professionals, who will be duly licensed nationally and hopefully will attain international accreditation.

This contract could be renewed for an additional period of up to five years.

In addition to the treating of patients and the training of professionals, C of H has offered to establish a Research Center on Rheumatic Heart Disease.

A WONDEFUL OPPORTUNITY

The proposal moves up the completion date of the Pediatric Cardiac Center and adds urgency to fundraising efforts, prompting a call for support from

the Ethiopian Diaspora.

we are invited!

Donations

Healing the Children NationalP.O. Box 9065Spokane, WA  99209-9065

Online: To make an online donation please see the HTC website at www.healingthechildren.org under “For Donors” tab.

Checks should be made payable to Healing the Children and designated to CHFE. Please note that all money goes directly to the Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia.

Healing the Children NationalP.O. Box 9065Spokane, WA  99209-9065

Online: To make an online donation please see the HTC website at www.healingthechildren.org under “For Donors” tab.

Checks should be made payable to Healing the Children and designated to CHFE. Please note that all money goes directly to the Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia.

US donations and support for the Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia should be sent to Healing the Children or to CHFE at:

Children's Fund of EthiopiaP. O. Box 22036

Eagan, MN 55122

Email address info@cfethiopia.org

Federal Identification Number 01-0870053

Children's Fund of EthiopiaP. O. Box 22036

Eagan, MN 55122

Email address info@cfethiopia.org

Federal Identification Number 01-0870053