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International Kids Fund, (IKF) is a non-profit, philanthropic program of Jackson Memorial Foundation committed to helping critically ill children primarily from Latin America and the Caribbean gain immediate access to essential medical treatments that are unavailable in their respective home countries. ==IKF's History== Located in Miami, Florida, the International Kids Fund was founded in response to an increasing number of desperate families from Latin America and the Caribbean who regularly showed up at Jackson Memorial Foundation seeking financial support for their sick children's medical treatment at Holtz Children's Hospital, which is prohibited by law to use publicly funded resources to care for non-residents of Miami-Dade County. At first, Jackson Memorial Foundation assisted these families in identifying funds. But as the number of families increased, the foundation came to realize that a special organizational and financial infrastructure was needed to appropriately support these families. By 2001, 6-year-old Jean Gabriel Senior had just arrived to Holtz Children's Hospital to battle leukemia. Jean Gabriel was in pain and critically ill. His family had exhausted all medical possibilities in their home country, the Dominican Republic, and could not afford to pay for Jean Gabriel's medical care in the United States. Rather than ignoring his plight and permitting him to suffer, the hospital's administrators, physicians and benefactors united with Jackson Memorial Foundation to establish IKF, not only to help Jean Gabriel, but all foreign children who arrive at Holtz seeking medical treatments that are not available in their home countries and that their desperate families cannot afford. On January 9, 2002, just days before his final treatment, Jean Gabriel unexpectedly died. IKF continues to dedicate its ongoing efforts to his memory by helping countless numbers of critically ill children for whom expert medical treatment is not available in their country of origin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Kids Fund」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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