Little Hearts
Support Little Hearts in providing free life-saving heart surgeries for children with congenital defects. Help us give them a chance at life!
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Just £50 Will Support a Life-Saving Little Hearts Mission.
About Little Hearts
Our Little Hearts project provides free life-saving heart surgeries to babies and children with Congenital Heart Defects from underprivileged families, irrespective of gender, race and religion.
Our impact since 2012
Little Hearts by the numbers
Donations from the UK and around the world fund every mission — here is what your generosity has achieved for children with congenital heart defects.
- 17
- Countries reached
- 64
- Missions + 1 Cardiac Programme
- 3,613
- Life-changing operations
Operations by country
- Sudan6278 missions
- Bangladesh5218 missions
- Tanzania5108 missions
- Bangladesh Cardiac CentrePermanent cardiac centre45413 missions
- Libya3167 missions
- Egypt3159 missions
- Morocco2004 missions
- Kosovo1806 missions
- Kenya1374 missions
- Pakistan1082 missions
- Tunisia681 mission
- Yemen641 mission
- Kazakhstan311 mission
- Somalia301 mission
- Mauritania281 mission
- Uganda141 mission
- Benin51 mission
- Bosnia51 mission
Figures are compiled from individual deployment reports and the permanent cardiac mission in Bangladesh. Numbers show life-changing operations delivered per country.
The challenge
Why Little Hearts Matter
- 1.5M
- children each year are born with a congenital heart defect globally
- 10%
- of babies born with CHD do not survive their first year of life
- 1000s
- more die and don't reach adulthood
- Since 2012, we have carried out
- 50Missions
- in 14 countries
- During these deployments, we have performed
- 3,000+
- cardiac interventions and surgeries
Our flagship project
Committed to every child with CHD
In poor, underdeveloped countries, the lack of specialised medical infrastructure means babies born with congenital heart defects have little or no access to necessary treatment.
Muntada Aid believes ignoring this deadly killer is tantamount to a death sentence for the many children born with this disease. Most of these conditions can be fixed, but children suffer due to a lack of resources, infrastructure, and specialist medical staff.
We are committed to children with CHD and provide them with an opportunity for a healthy life.
Little Hearts is Muntada Aid's flagship project and was launched in April 2012.
She has the perfect name, Blessing
Blessing was just 10 days old when she underwent treatment for her Pulmonary Atresia. This was the first time a 10-day-old child had been administered such a complex procedure by our team in Tanzania, coming "as close to life saving as it gets".
A PDA stent was implemented, allowing Blessing's lungs to be properly supplied with blood. After two hours, the procedure was successful, resulting in a temporary fix for Blessing until she is able to be operated on within the following two years.
Denzel, a fortress of hope
Denzel Malula is a 6-year-old child, diagnosed with coronary heart disease, which narrows or blocks arteries, preventing and minimising vital blood flow to the heart. With the tireless work of our Tanzanian team, Denzel was provided with a PDA device closure and was in good spirits before he was discharged after his successful procedure.
Tanzania
How the Little Hearts Programme changed the country's paediatric cardiac care
At the heart of Little Hearts is the noble mission of saving children's lives worldwide. We do this by sending medical teams to countries of deployment, building permanent cardiac centres, and building capacity in the countries where we operate.
A shining example of this model is our work in Tanzania.
Back in 2016, there were no doctors at the centre who could perform any interventions and operations on children. Our Little Hearts team was the first to perform heart operations on children that year, and since then, our visiting teams, through constant training and guidance, have helped build capacity among the local team, which now performs complex heart operations on children at this centre.
Hijrah Ride
A journey like no other
Hijrah Ride is a flagship partnership between Muntada Aid and H&KCC. This annual cycling event is a three-day marathon in which riders from various parts of the UK cycle from Mecca to Madinah, covering a distance of over 550 kilometres between the two of Islam's holiest mosques.
The journey symbolises the migration that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) took as he fled persecution in Mecca and sought safety in Madinah.
The fourth edition of Hijrah Ride, also known as Hijrah Ride 1447, is scheduled for January 2025.
During the first three editions of Hijrah Ride, we raised over £650,000 for projects helping children with healthcare and providing emergency aid to those fleeing war.
Every child deserves thechance to live
Your gift funds free, life-saving heart surgery for a child born with a congenital heart defect — a child who would otherwise have nowhere else to turn.
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A monthly gift goes towards providing free heart operations to children in Africa, South Asia and the Balkans.
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Latest news
Asian Express (pg 6 & 7)
Asian Express (pg 6 & 7)
India Weekly
Cyclists help save the lives of 60 Tanzanian children after raising £128,000 through ride in Saudi Arabia - Indiaweekly
Asian Sunday
Father and founder of Muslim cycling club raises a staggering £2 Million towards causes helping women and children in Middle East & Africa
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