Heart Kids NZ
This week 12 kiwi families will be told their child has a heart condition. Donate now to help Heart Kids NZ support these families.
Auckland
Heart Kids NZ is the only national charity in Aotearoa dedicated to supporting people affected by congenital and childhood-acquired heart conditions. Every week, around 12 families in New Zealand learn that their child has a heart defect. With no prevention and no cure, many heart children face multiple surgeries, long and repeated hospital stays, and ongoing medical care across their lifetime. Heart Kids NZ currently supports more than 14,000 members nationwide.
For more than 40 years, Heart Kids NZ has walked alongside heart children, teens, adults and their whānau from diagnosis through to adulthood for life, providing emotional, practical and community-based support so families are not facing this journey alone.
Our objectives and goals are to:
* Provide timely, compassionate emotional and practical support to heart children, adults and their whānau
* Reduce isolation and distress by fostering strong peer connection and community belonging
* Build knowledge and confidence so families can better navigate complex health systems
* Advocate for the wellbeing of people living with lifelong heart conditions
More about us
Heart Kids NZ is the only organisation in Aotearoa NZ that provides free, lifelong care and support for children, teens, adults and whānau impacted by childhood heart conditions.
We help at every step of the journey; from diagnosis, through childhood, the teenage years and into adulthood. Our practical and emotional support is vital in helping individuals and families cope with the day-to-day challenges of living with a childhood heart condition.
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Heart Kids - What we do 15 April 2020
Heart Kids is the only organisation in New Zealand dedicated to providing lifelong care and support for children, young people and families impacted by childhood heart defects (CHD).
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