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
Herzkinder sind noch viel mehr...
Viele unserer Ideen möchten verwirklicht werden! Dazu brauchen wir aber Deine Unterstützung, denn Veranstaltungen müssen geplant und organisiert werden und für viele Dinge müssen auch wir bezahlen.
