Play Your Heart Out is a 3 on 3-charity basketball tournament for students at Tulane University. In the United States the most common birth defect among children is congenital heart disease, a disease that can be cured with a relatively routine procedure. However, in developing countries this disease is often a death sentence for children. Save A Child's Heart (SACH) is one of the largest undertakings in the world providing urgently needed pediatric heart surgery and follow-up care for indigent children from developing countries. Based in Israel, their mission is to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from countries where the heart surgery they need is unobtainable. Every 29 hours a SACH doctor saves a child's life in their medical facilities in Israel or on medical missions in partner countries around the world. In just the past decade thousands of children’s lives have been saved because of a small group of medical professionals who volunteer their time and expertise to perform life-saving cardiac surgery and train local medical personnel. All children, regardless of race, religion, sex, color, or financial status receive the best possible care that modern medicine has to offer.
$10,000 is required to save the life of one child suffering from heart disease. This amount covers the costs of hospitalization plus room & board at the SACH Children's Home. Children stay for an average of 10 weeks at the SACH Children's Home. There are 1000 children on our waiting list. Help save the children.
