following the Way

It has been nearly a month since 10-year-old Shad Faraydoon passed away in Istanbul following a surgery that he should have had nine or more years ago. Every month longer he waited for his chance to go outside of Iraq for surgery, the trauma to his cardiovascular system increased and the probability of a total recovery diminished.

As we have been grieving alongside Shad’s family in these days, they have decided to work with PLC to help fund surgeries for other kids when they need them and before it is too late.In honor of Shad’s memory, we’ve started a campaign to help fund life-saving heart surgeries for ten kids with the same congenital heart defect as Shad. But unlike Shad, we’ll send these ten kids to surgery during their ideal window for treatment and not a decade too late.

Because of the significant discounts that PLC has negotiated with the hospital and airline in Turkey, a financial partnership with an Iraqi NGO, and the contributions that we ask for each family to make towards their child’s treatment (to affirm their dignity and encourage their responsibility), PLC only has to raise an additional $5,000 to fully fund each child’s surgery.

That’s $5,000 to save a life. Fifty thousand to save ten—one for each year of Shad’s too short life.

Click here to learn more and to give.