Kosovo Girl Returns Home with Healthy HeartSamaritan's Purse Edina Sejfic Heads Home with Holes in Her Heart Patched and Hope for the Future Three holes the size of a quarter seem so small, but to Edina Sejfic they were the difference between life and death. Eight-year-old Edina Sejfic, accompanied by her mother and an interpreter, arrived in the Tampa Bay area on March 6. She returns to Kosovo on Thursday, April 17after receiving life-saving surgery last month at Tampa Children's Hospital. Due to the lack of care available in war-torn Kosovo, she was brought to the Tampa Bay area by Samaritan's Purse, an international relief organization headed by Franklin Graham.  Samaritan's Purse arranged for her travel, surgery, and housing with a local family and at an area Ronald McDonald House during her six-week-stay. Volunteers from Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church in Tampa transported them to and from doctor's appointments, prepared meals, and provided support. Rotary Gift of Life subsidized the cost of the surgery. Samaritan's Purse Children's Heart Project identifies children with life-threatening heart diseases in countries that lack technology and training, and matches them with surgeons and hospitals in the United States and Canada that are willing to donate their time and services. Samaritan's Purse has brought more than a dozen kids to the Tampa Bay area for surgery since 1998. Since 1997, the Samaritan's Purse Children's Heart Project has brought more than 190 children from Bosnia, Kosovo, and Mongolia to the United States and Canada for critical heart care.
For more information, or to contact Samaritan's Purse, see their website at: www.samaritanspurse.org |
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