Save A Child’s Heart is a humanitarian organization that provides free heart surgeries to children in developing countries. People from the organization also travel to these countries to train doctors on how to perform these difficult surgeries.To date SACH has helped for 2500 children since 1995 with a 96% success rate.
On Monday night, March 28th 2011 at 7pm Hillel co-sponsored an fund-raising event for Save A Child's Heart. Along with Hillel, Penn State Israel Alliance, the Latter-Day Saints Student Association, the Jewish Studies Department, and the Muslim Students’ Association co-sponsored the event. Around 7:30 Sara Glassman spoke briefly about her time volunteering with SACH. Preceding her, Dr. Melina T. Czymoniewicz-Klippel, the Penn State Global Health Minor Coordinator, spoke about the importance and relevance of global health.
Over all, the event was a great success. Approximately 70 people attended, and in total we raised over $450. I am very excited about this, especially because most of the attendees were college students. Everyone I talked with said they really enjoyed the exhibit and the photos were amazing.
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