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Save a Child's Heart (SACH) is a humanitarian organization with a mission to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from developing countries who suffer from heart disease, and who cannot get adequate medical care in their home countries. It also works to create centers of pediatric cardiac competence in these countries, so these children can be treated at home. SACH was founded in 1996 and is based at the Edith Wolfson Medical Center near Tel Aviv, Israel.〔 ==Mission== The SACH mission is achieved in three ways: * Providing life-saving cardiac surgery and other life-saving procedures for children from developing countries at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, near Tel Aviv; * Providing an in-depth outreach post-graduate training program for medical personnel from these developing countries in Israel; * Sending staff overseas to provide this education to local medical professionals, as well as to perform surgeries side-by-side with them.〔〔〔 As of the October of 2012, SACH has brought more than 3,200 children to Israel from countries that include Ethiopia, Vietnam, Jordan, Moldova, Tanzania, Russia,〔 the Philippines,〔 Nigeria,〔 Ghana,〔 Kenya,〔 Angola Iraq, Haiti, St. Vincent, Trinidad, Ecuador, Mauritania, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Congo,Zimbabwe, Zanzibar, Rwanda, Somalia, Eritrea, Sri Lanka, China, Kazakhstan, Romania, Ukraine,〔 and Syria,〔Sidner, Sara (May 30, 2013). (Taking heart amid Syria's carnage ). Retrieved July 31, 2013.〕 as well as from Gaza and the West Bank (the Palestinian Territories).〔 About half the patients treated over the years are Arabs from the West Bank, Gaza and Iraq, and the other half from the other countries listed. In December 2010 the first child from Indonesia was brought to Israel by SACH and underwent successful surgery in January 2011.〔 Medical personnel who have trained with SACH in Israel have come from China, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Moldova, Nigeria, Vietnam and Zanzibar, as well as from the Palestinian Authority. SACH has instructed hundreds of physicians and nurses during 60 medical missions to China, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Mauritania, Moldova, Nigeria, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zanzibar.〔 SACH's doctors and medical personnel completely volunteer their time and services for this project, with the only costs (about $10,000 US) used to provide post-surgical care at SACH’s Children’s Home in Israel for an average stay of about three months. Children are brought to Israel from their home country in groups of four to six, accompanied by a nurse or, if they are under age three, by a family member.〔 Save a Child’s Heart Foundation U.S. has been certified by Independent Charities of America as one of about 2,000 “Best in America” charities, verification that its “fund-raising materials and other information to the public is truthful and non-deceptive” and that it provides “documented provision of substantive services.” Save a Child’s Heart Foundation U.S. has received the Independent Charities Seal of Excellence, awarded to the members of Independent Charities of America and Local Independent Charities of America that have, upon rigorous independent review, been able to certify, document, and demonstrate, on an annual basis, that they meet the highest standards of public accountability, program effectiveness, and cost effectiveness. These standards include those required by the U.S. Government for inclusion in the Combined Federal Campaign. Of the 1,000,000 charities operating in the United States today, it is estimated that fewer than 50,000, or 5 percent, meet or exceed these standards, and, of those, fewer than 2,000 have been awarded this Seal." 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「Save a Child's Heart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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