How we help

Take our hand and take heart

• Provision of information material about “heart children”
• Support for parents during pregnancy
• Support for parents before, during and after the operation
• Support and contact point for grown ups with congenital heart defects (GUCH)
• Discussions with the parents regarding all non-medical matters
• Establishment and development of a safety net in the federal states
• Tips on finances and subsidies ( visits to the authorities)
• Heart Children's Meeting in the Federal States in order to share experiences
• Establishing contact between affected parents
• Parents' discussion groups, information evenings, specialist lectures
• Cooperation with doctors, paediatric cardiologists and hospitals throughout Austria
• Educational work in kindergartens, schools (a visit with a special "Heart to Heart")
• Support for therapies, therapeutic aids, rehabilitation and recuperation stays
• Support and participation in the child and youth rehabilitation for children with CHD
• Support for bereaved parents
• Financial support for families who are in financial difficulties due to the illness of their child and the resulting double burden
• Financial support for GUCH (grown ups with congenital heart defect)
• Support of research projects
• Summer weeks for heart families
• Holiday camp for heart children and their siblings
• Organization of parents' weekends (mum, dad, bereaved parents)
• weekends and meetings for GUCH (grown ups with congenital heart defect)
• Excursions
• 5th of May: CHD Awareness Day (charity event "Hearts are Trumps)
• Public relations
• and much, much more