NEXT IN LINE FOR SURGERY [Monday, May 10, 2010] Meet Nivar. She lives in Iraq and needs urgent heart surgery outside the country. Nivar has a four-fold set of heart defects known as Tetralogy of Fallot. At eight years old her growth has been stunted by lack of oxygen in her blood and subsequent lack of energy, activity, etc. But it’s not too late for Nivar. A total corrective surgery can still free her up for on-time development as she moves into her ninth birthday in September. Despite being a typist in a local office, where he makes about $250 per month, her father has gathered money from savings, friends, and family, and has $3,500 to help send Nivar to surgery! This is the kind of family ownership and buy-in that so encourages us!

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Jeremy Courtney Co-Founder, President Preemptive Love Coalition (Twitter: @jeremy_courtney)

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BSSL On The Radio

May 3, 2008 by Jeremy 

The kind people over at World Vision Report (a division of the incomparable World Vision) have put together what will hopefully be the first of two pieces on Buy Shoes. Save Lives. The first one - airing on 1,800 radio stations across the country last week - is a two minute interview by Peggy Wehmeyer (ABC World News Tonight, 20/20, Good Morning America) with one of our co-founders. 

Push Play Below to hear the two minute interview!

Jeremy Courtney lives and loves in Iraq as a co-founder and Executive Director of the Preemptive Love Coalition. He's also the father of two spectacular children, and married to the lovely Jessica Courtney. When not absorbed in PLC work he can be found writing songs and singing about hope and future. Follow Jeremy on Twitter: @Jeremy_Courtney.

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