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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Zana Plays Football Two Months After Returning From ♥ Surgery

June 2, 2009 by Jeremy 

In February Zana entered the Anadolu Sağlık Merkezi hospital in Istanbul, Turkey and underwent one of the most amazing, dangerous heart surgeries out there. Today, thanks to our partners at Kurdistan Save the Children, all of your kind Buy Shoes. Save Lives. purchases, and donations to PLC he is playing football like all the other kids in his neighborhood with barely a care in the world.

All these pictures are courtesy of the wonderful pro bono photographer Matt Addington and PLC’s Followthrough program, whereby we make sure that kids are not sent to surgery only to return to Iraq and be forgotten.

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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