Oracle supports children suffering from Congenital Heart Defects (CHD)

BENGALURU: Oracle has come forward to support children suffering from Congenital Heart Defects (CHD). Through Project Little Hearts, the computer software company will support medical screenings and surgeries for 25 underprivileged children from the Raigad district of Maharashtra with a grant of hundred thousand US dollars, apart from year-round awareness activities.

CHD is a structural heart defect that is the most common congenital anomaly in newborn babies. Colleen Cassity, executive director, Oracle Corporate Citizenship, said, “Without treatment, CHD can be lethal. Funding care and treatment for children with CHD is one way that Oracle helps to strengthen communities, which is the focus of our philanthropy, along with advancing education and protecting the environment.”

The project is being led by the Genesis Foundation, which has facilitated treatments of 1700 critically-ill children whose family income is less than Rs. 10,000 per month. For Project Little Hearts, the nonprofit has collaborated with Swades Foundation who will overlook on-ground operations to ensure that the money is used for the right purpose. Surgeries would take place in Wockhardt Hospital.

Prema and Jyoti Sagar, founder trustees, Genesis Foundation, said that there are over two lakh children born with CHD in India. “At the end of the day, all the welfare organisations and corporate donors working towards creating an irreversible change for our country form a community. This ensures that India progresses in all its entirety,” they said.