Help a lesser privileged child in India beat a Congenital Heart Defect with just one donation

Think of a situation where you are told that your new-born needed an open-heart surgery. Think of a situation where you are told that your baby has a Congenital Heart Defect and needs long term follow up and care. Think of a situation where your child’s growth and development are impacted because of a condition he was born with. Think of a situation where your child needs to go through a procedure to fix a defect in his heart?  

And Now, imagine this unfortunate situation unfolding before a lesser privileged child’s family, replete with the entire cluster of challenges the family would have to face … including the most critical of all- arranging the financial resources for a lifesaving treatment? 

We say all this because Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) happens to be one of the least recognized and least funded of all childhood diseases. As a matter of fact, although 1 in 100 babies are born with a congenital heart defect, 99% of cardiac research funding is focused on adults! In India, on an average between 200,000 and 250,000 children are born with a heart defect. Of these nearly 70,000 children have a critical defect, meaning that they need an intervention within the first year to be able to survive. Yet approximately only 10% of these children receive timely care and support. 

India still does not enough pediatric cardiac care centres to cater to the load of children detected. Those that exist are mostly located in the private sector, where the cost of the treatment makes it inaccessible to large section of society. Depending on the type of defect, treatment for a Congenital Heart Defect varies from GBP 1500 to GBP 5000. 

It is here that kind-hearted people like you can help a lesser privileged child in India beat a Congenital Heart Defect with just one donation! This donation can be channelized through Congenital Heart Foundations in India like Genesis Foundation that are able to provide that all-important succour to such a child and their family with the help of kind-hearted donors like you. 

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To help you understand how you can go about it, let us tell you a little more about Genesis Foundation that stands right at the forefront of the most active Congenital Heart Foundations in India:

Genesis Foundation is a Foundation supporting the medical treatment of children who are diagnosed with a Congenital Heart Defect. It provides financial resources for heart treatment for underprivileged children within the age group of 0-18 years and from families with a monthly income that does not exceed GBP 200. The support that is required in the said critical illness varies from specific surgeries (including neonatal), Cath Lab Interventions along with recovery and recuperation post-surgery.

The Foundation cares for critically ill children by identifying those who are in urgent need of medical care under its focus area - Congenital Heart Defects. As a frontline Foundation working for children and heart disorder treatment in India, Genesis Foundation works directly and closely with the families, guardians, and doctors to provide not only timely, but the best available treatment.

So far, Genesis Foundation has supported the medical treatment of over 3800 critically ill children. 100% of donations received from individual donors are used for the treatment of the child with no allocation towards administrative costs. 

The treatment of critically ill children at Genesis Foundation is dependent on a network of doctors, hospitals, Corporates, institutions and individual donors who are committed to saving little hearts and helping to improve CHD treatment in India. Being a children’s healthcare foundation, Genesis Foundation India works closely with its medical network pan India to provide adequate support to GF beneficiaries. Its partnerships are graced with the best hospitals, doctors, and support staff in India.

Making a donation to a non-profit organization like Genesis Foundation India is like planting a garden. Every “seed” you give, the non-profit organization will tend until it grows into something bountiful. The more we sow, the more we reap the rewards of a thriving community. Your donation makes the organization and their mission stronger and they are able to build more of a presence in the community – and thereby make the most impact.

If you wish to donate as an individual donor at Genesis Foundation, it would help you to know that this Congenital Heart Foundation in India is duly registered under FCRA allowing them to receive foreign contribution. Through GIVE India, Genesis Foundation also accepts International donations providing tax benefit for donation to charity for US & UK residents. All donors contributing here through Give India are issued an instant email tax receipt by GIVE Foundation, Inc., which is a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit organisation that accepts money in the U.S. A UK taxpayer wanting to avail the GiftAid tax exemption can make their contribution in GBP.

An Indian citizen, including those based abroad having a valid Indian passport, wanting to avail the 80G tax benefit for donation to charity, can contribute in INR using multiple Indian payment methods, which includes the use of international credit cards. Citizens of any other country that have not been not discussed so far, can also make their contributions in USD.

So, if you wish to help a lesser privileged child in India beat a Congenital Heart Defect with just one donation, Genesis Foundation could be just the right Congenital Heart Foundation to go with. To know more about it all, you may visit the Foundation’s official website https://www.genesis-foundation.net/    or click on this following link to donate:  https://www.genesis-foundation.net/donate

References:

1. https://www.genesis-foundation.net/donate
2. https://aghf.org/giving-children-with-chd-their-childhood-back/
3. https://www.sharda.ac.in/blog/7-reasons-to-help-an-underprivileged-child/
4. https://uwsd.org/blog/4-ways-your-donation-makes-a-difference/#:~:text=If%20you%20donate%20to%20a,re%20not%20making%20ends%20meet.
5. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+your+donation+makes+a+difference