Support to Sarah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beneficiaries: Sarah

Cities / Regions involved: Syria - Lombardia

Period: December 2013

Sources of funding: Regione Lombardia, Private donations

Total cost: 35.000 euros

Project Status: concluded

Sarah is a 14-month baby suffering of heart problems (tetralogy of Fallot with two faults in combination: a large ventricular septal defect associated with severe pulmonary stenosis that caused cyanosis incompatible with life). She was brought to the attention of @ uxilia by Steve Sosebee, CEO of PCRF. Sarah is a Syrian national unable to obtain a passport because displaced with her parents in Jordan due to the war. Sarah has only one registration document issued by UNHCR, which does not allow her to travel abroad. Thanks to the diplomatic work done by @uxilia and thanks to the subsequent intervention of Queen Rania of Jordan, Sarah could leave Jordan with a foreign travel document in order to get a surgery in the Hospital of Bergamo. The surgery was performed by Dr. Giancarlo Crupi, a friend and associate of the @uxilia . The surgery was successful and Sarah could go back to Jordan in December 2013.

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