CardioStart's international work is primarily focused on assisting in developing local heart centers in countries needing help. Heart surgical teams, assembled by CardioStart, work side-by-side with local staff for two week periods to provide comprehensive platforms for future growth.
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Read more: Heart Surgery
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 Portland Fundraiser
The Portland volunteers of CardioStart held their first fundraiser on Sept. 9th, and it was a great success.
In just 3 ½ months of planning, volunteers with CardioStart in Portland, OR organized a successful fundraiser. With the help of 30 volunteers, the evening’s events were a silent auction, oral auction, fashion show, and international entertainment. 120 guests enjoyed an international catered buffet dinner. The silent auction included over 30 items to bid on. Auctioneer, Laura Michalek, led bidding wars for the oral auction with items such as a day with a gold miner, custom-blown glass goblets, and an Oregon beach getaway. Entertainment included piano playing by nationally accomplished jazz pianist, Chuck Magnuson, Portland Trailblazer A.J. Johnson on drums, a touching recorder solo performed by TK Vu of Minneapolis, and a song from PICU nurse volunteer Diana Scolaro-Cook.
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Read more: Portland Fundraiser
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CardioStart is in need of the following items
Contact us if you have help or give information on how/where we can get the following:
- Digital Video Camera - to capture the mission for all to witness.
- Venues For our volunteers to speak and fundraise for mission expenses and experiences
- An appeal: $100 to supply health education materials in country to the population
- Warehouse space (size 2000 sq.feet +, no temperature control needed, location - Portland, OR.
- We need a Van - To transport boxes of supplies to and from our Tampa warehouse.
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Here is a link to the presentation created by Richard Burian on our CardioStart Mission to Kien Giang Province, Vietnam.
This is a MS PowerPoint presentation.
Presentation Link
This is a link to the photo of the presentation without the words. It is a google gallery.
Google Gallery |
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What if CardioStart earned a penny every time you searched the internet?
CardioStart volunteers regularly fill their personal luggage full of supplies to donate and distribute when they arrive at the mission site. Although CardioStart ships a freight container of donations before each mission, fragile supplies with a short lifespan or close to expiration are hand carried with volunteer travelers. As airlines restrict the weight limits, it becomes more costly to shepard a suitcase filled with the most critical supplies. You can partner with CardioStart to enable volunteers to continue their critical work. To learn more, please click here.
In the fall of 2009, volunteers began to create the first ever Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in the area. This will be a place for children to heal and grow. With your generous donations to the project, we were able to pipe water into the new room and bring in electricity allowing staff access to the basic principles of hand hygiene and the ability to monitor patients. We still need to equip it with oxygen delivery systems, ventilators, cardiac monitors, and enough disposable supplies to keep the unit running long past our visit. To donate click here.
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