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50 Family Focus + Two Teams of Turks = 90 Kids in 2010
December 30, 2009 by Jeremy
To date, we’ve served 45 children by offering families a hand-up in their efforts to save their own children’s lives. We’ve seen poor families work harder and smarter to take part in our family participation program to fund a portion of their child’s surgery.
As we enter 2010 we plan to up the ante and send 50 children out to surgery in Istanbul, Turkey at the Anadolu Medical Center. We hope to do this by sending four children every month. (January’s group is already set and February and March are filling up quickly!). The price tag for these surgeries will be roughly $500,00 - with at least 50% of that amount coming from local Iraqi sources!
Additionally, we hope to make 2010 a year of investing in local infrastructure by creating forums for the exchange of knowledge, skills, and experience by bringing in foreign experts to operate and train local cardiologists, surgeons, and nurses to hasten the day of more local solutions to local problems in Iraq.
We aim to bring 2 surgical missions into Iraq this year to serve 40 additional children in local hospitals by training local surgeons, cardiologists, and nurses. We have already begun screening candidate hospitals, cardiologists, and surgeons to ensure our investments go to the most disciplined and visionary practitioners.
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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. |
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2 Responses to “50 Family Focus + Two Teams of Turks = 90 Kids in 2010”
my naem taher
iam kurdsh of sulaemane in iraq
iam fazar mazyar
24/7/2009 istanbol
So exciting! And yes, it will be twice as joyous! Such joy