During 2005 - 2008, the 'Heart of the Matter' project was co-sponsored by the EU Commission's Partnership for Peace Program. Under this project Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) has achieved the following:
Over 800 Palestinian children were examined at the cardiology clinic held at the Wolfson Medical Center;
SACH provided at the Wolfson Medical Center open-heart surgery for over 400 Palestinian children;
SACH provided in-depth post-graduate training in pediatric cardiac care for six Palestinian physicians in pediatric cardiology, anesthesiology and prenatal diagnosis;
SACH coordinated joint medical activities between physicians from the PA, Israel and the International medical community. Such activities included a seminar of the Israeli Society of Pediatric Cardiologists, seminar of the Israeli Society of Pediatric Critical Care and Israeli Society of Clinical Pediatrics and the seminar of Congenital and Adult Cardiac Surgery; and
SACH conducted two surveys assessing the effect of the SACH activities on the attitudes and feelings of Palestinian and Israeli parents of children hospitalized in the WMC during the program, towards the members of each other's communities, and the level of cooperation and communication between Palestinian and Israeli physicians participating in the program. According to these surveys the relatives of the Palestinian and Israeli children who were treated through the SACH program have changed their positions, for the better, towards Israel and the Palestinian Authority, respectively, and their residents and respective authorities. Furthermore, the absolute majority of the relatives claimed that SACH’s activities strengthen the mutual trust between Israelis and Palestinians and improves the relations between the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.