Who is in Israel This Week:
Save a Child's Heart is currently treating twenty four children:
Before surgery 
After surgery
ANGOLA
Rossana Lopes Goncalves, Angola
Rossana is an eleven year old girl from Angola. She goes to school and can read very well. Her mother works as a waitress in Bairro Azul and her father works at a gas company. Rossana stays with her grandmother when her mother is working. She loves to draw and draws beautifully. Rossana also loves to dance, read, and play with dolls. She lives with eleven family members in the same house and she always helps around the house.
Anselmo Rodrigues Suzana, Angola
Anselmo us a twelve year old boy from Angola. Anselmo does not go to school because if his health situation. He has six brothers and three sisters. His parents work in the agriculture industry in specifically planting beans. Anselmo likes to cook and he can dance rival to Michael Jackson!.
Liliana Lidia Tembo Narciso
Liliana is a one year old girl from Angola. She has three older siblings, two twins who are ten years old and a six year old brother. Her mother does not work and her father is a translator. Liliana is now becoming more and more active in the children’s home and is playing nicely with the other children.
Epifania da Silva Diogo, Angola
Epfiana is a five year old girl from Angola. Epfiana does not go to nursery school yet because of her health situation. She is the only child, but lives with ten family members in one house. Epfiana’s mother and father work at the Luanda port, checking merchandise on the ships arriving to Angola. She is a very happy, friendly, and active child and she loves playing with hair of all types.
Edmar Braulio Caritengui Carlos, Angola
Edmar is a five year old boy from Angola. Edmar was brought to SACH last year and is now back for a second surgery to completely fix his heart defect. Edmar already had his surgery and he is feeling well. Edmar’s mother is a policewoman.
Emilia Papagaio Da Cruz, Angola
Emilia is a five year old girl from Angola. She has not started going to school yet. Emilia loves learning new things and playing with her friends.
GHANA
Kingsley Tettey Bakai, Ghana
Kingsley is a three and a half year old boy from Ghana. Kingsley has one sister who is five and a half and he lives in Accra. He was diagnosed at the age of two months after he was taken to the hospital dur to breathing problems. Kingsley’s mother is a hairdresser and his father is a driver. Kingsley does not go to nursery and he is regularly in the hospital.
GAMBIA
Alhagie Mendy, Gambia
Alhagie is a nine year old boy from Gambia. He is the second of four children. He lives in a small village, his father is a farmer and his mother helps the father in the field. Alhagie does not attend school as it is too hard for him to walk all the way to school. A teacher comes to his house and teaches him. Alhagie is a very friendly boy and the thing he loves most of all is football.
HAITI
Woodley Elysee, Haiti
Woodley is a six year old boy from Haiti. He came to Israel with his aunt since his mother is pregnant and could not come with him. He has four brothers and sisters. His mother is a house wife and his father works occasionally outside of home.
IRAQ
Mohammed, Iaq
Mohhamed is a three year old boy from Iraq. He has two older sisters back home.
Hezhan, Iraq
Hezhan is a twenty year old young man from Iraq. He just celebrated his birthday and the thing he loves most of all is ti listen to music.
Ahmed, Iraq
Ahmed is a four year old boy from Iraq. Ahmed has one brother. He loves playing but he really doesn't like having a bath, and whenever his mother says its bath time he runs away and hides from her.
Rezhna, Iraq
Rezhna is fifteen year old girl from Iraq. Rezhna has one sister and two brothers. She loves playing computer games.
LIBERIA
Clarence Williams
Clarence is a five year old boy from Liberia. He is the first and only child in the family. Clarence’s father works in a photo laboratory and his mother goes to university. Clarence goes to school and likes writing, drawing and listening to music.
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY
Marwan, Gaza
Marwan is a one month old baby boy from Gaza. Marwan has five sisters and a four year old brother. His mother is a housewife and his father works in a coffee shop.
Reman, Gaza
Reman is a one year and 9 months old baby girl from Gaza. Her mother is a housewife and her father works in a company. She is the only child in the family.
Lian, Gaza
Lian is a one and a half month old baby girl from Gaza.
Mosab, Gaza
Mosab is a nine months old boy from Gaza. When he was one month old Mosab’s mother noticed he was blue while bathing him, and took him immediately to a doctor. Mosab was diagnosed then with a congenital heart disease and was referred to SACH.
Ali, Gaza
Ali is a two months old baby boy from Gaza. Ali was diagnosed with a heart problem after birth. He has five sisters older than him. His mother is a housewife and his father is an officer.
ROMANIA
Mara Alida Michaela Burada, Romania
Mara is a one year old girl from Romania. Mara was diagnosed at birth. Two weeks later after a cardiac consult the diagnosis and need for medical intervention was confirmed. Since then she has been examined and has had echo cardiographs in hospital on a monthly basis. Mara lives with her parents and her almost five year old sister Ana in Bucharest. Mara's mother works as an advertising sales representative for a business magazine publishing group. Her father is a construction engineer.
RWANDA
Samson Marizamuda, Rwanda
Samson is a seventeen year old boy from Rwanda. Hi goes to school and chose to learn French in school. Samson loves studying and he is a good student. Samson’s father is not a live. He lives with his mother and one sister in Mayange city. Samson loves travelling, listening to music, watching war movies and riding his bicycle.
UGANDA
Brian Kizito Njuki, Uganda
Brian is an eighteen year old boy from Uganda. He goes to school and he is a good student. Due to his illness Brian missed two and a half years of school. He has 8 brothers and five sisters. Brian’s father does not work and his mother is travelling around Uganda as a missionary. He cam to israel with his aunt.
ZANZIBAR
Azmina Dude Hassan, Zanzibar
Azmina is a three year old girl from Zanzibar. She has one sister who is eleven years old. Azmina’s father is a farmer and her mother is a housewife. She lives near the beach in a town called Bwegou and commutes to the hospital by a “Daladala” – the common public transportation in Zanzibar – a small bus with wooden roof and wooden benches. Azmina was diagnosed by Dr. Alona Raucher during the SACH medical mission to Zanzibar in 2008.
Khairat Mngwali Ali, Zanzibar
Khariat is a four year old girl from Zanzibar. She has four sisters and one brother. Khariat’s father has a small business and her mother is a housewife. Khariat is in Israel without a parent. She is taken care of by the Zanzibar nurse who is accompanying the group of children from Zanzibar and by the mother of another child from Zanzibar, Azmina, who is a friend of her mother. Khariat was diagnosed at the age of three months. During the SACH medical mission in Zanzibar in 2008 it was decided that she can travel to Israel for heart surgery.