Facebook Users "Save the Little Hearts", Filipino Children with Congenital Heart Defects

Mother Theresa said it best-"If you can't feed a hundred people, than feed just one."

And through Facebook as well as other means of social media, many people have had the opportunity to reach out to those who have been affected by illnesses throughout the world.

Facebook users have the opportunity now to help Filipino children with potentially deadly congenital heart defects: the Save the Little Hearts Facebook campaign by the DM Health Care Foundation will be giving medical grants to Filipino child patients so they might receive necessary surgeries to live.

Titled "1 LIKE, 1 HEART TO SAVE," the campaign's goal is to raise funds that provide free heart surgeries for children but also make the public more aware of serious public health issues such as congenital heart defects in infants.

The word "congenital" means existing at birth, and for congenital heart defect or disease, which are interchangeable terms, the American Heart Association lists it as a defect or abnormality, but not a disease, that results when the heart or blood vessels near the heart do not develop normally before birth.

 "Through this campaign, we are hoping to accomplish two things simultaneously: first, to raise funds for the Filipino kids with congenital heart defect, or CHD; and second, to educate the public that congenital heart defect is threatening thousands of Filipino infants every year," said Dr. Sanjiv Malik, Board of Trustee of the foundation and CEO for Hospitals and Medical Centers Division of DM Health Care LLC.

The Save the Little Hearts Facebook campaign asks FB users to "Like" its official page on FB (https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheLittleHearts). With each "Like", the health care foundation will donate P100 to fund free surgeries for Filipino child patients with CHD. Every person who "Likes" the STLH FB page is encouraged to invite more friends to "Like" the page, as well. Thus, for every "Like" that is reciprocated by five more FB friends, P600 will be raised to fund the free cardiac surgeries.

Make sure to give them a click and help out.