The Save a Child’s Heart Photography Exhibition was officially opened in the Museum at the Wits Medical School in Johannesburg on September 9, 2009.
The event took place thanks to the South African Zionist Federation.
70 people attended the event, among them people from the Jewish community, doctors and other representatives from the medical community, foreign diplomats and media representatives.
Dr. Akiva Tamir, Head of the Pediatric Cardiology unit at the Wolfson Medical Center and SACH Chief Cardiologist was invited to open the event and speak. Dr. Tamir arrived in Johannesburg directly from Zanzibar where he just finished a medical mission in which 250 children were examined. Together with Dr. Tamir was SACH board member Sheila Shalhevet who is one of the photographers of the exhibition.
Two films were shown during the event; “Betty Story” and a recently edited film featuring the life in the children’s home described by our South African volunteer, Mikhaela Liberman, who stayed in the home for two months taking care of the children and mothers.
The two films caused many emotional reactions and tears among the audience. The screening was preceded by words of greeting from Avram Krengel, Chairman of the South African Zionist Federation and from Dov Segev-Steinberg, israeli ambassador to South Africa.