Did you know?…More than 50% of all children born with congenital heart defect will require at least one invasive surgery in their lifetime.

The Adventist Heart Fund was established in August 2010 with the mission to help fund corrective heart surgery for underprivileged children who are suffering from congenital heart diseases. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a defect, or abnormality of the heart or blood vessels near the heart, which exists at birth. Each year, over one million babies around the world are born with a congenital heart defect (March of Dimes).

The majority of children born today with CHD will survive and with timely medical treatment, will be able to lead normal or near-normal lives free from disease.

Since its inception, the Adventist Heart Fund has touched the lives of many children with more than 300 families benefitting so far. It is through the cooperative efforts between benevolent donors, dedicated physicians and Hong Kong Adventist Hospital that these children have been able to receive the necessary corrective surgeries, enabling them now to live healthy and happy lives.

• Established in March 2007


• Cancer Fund Scan Program
  Provide PET/CT, CT, MRI Scan to underprivileged cancer patients for early diagnosis of cancer, and to determine the extent of spread in the body


• Breast Health Screening Program
  Help underprivileged women who are at a higher risk of developing breast cancer


• Cancer Fund Charity Program
  Supports TomoTherapy treatment to cancer patients referred by Hospital Authority

• Donations that do not specify any particular fund will be applied to the Children’s Medical Fund, which was established in 2003


• Aims to assist those children who are in need of life-altering / life-saving medical treatments

• Provide preventive and direct eye care to underprivileged elderly in Hong Kong


• Improve vision and detect diseases before leading to irreversible blindness


• Initiated Charity Cataract Surgery Program in 2007 for the elderly


• More than 100 elderly have benefitted from the Fund

OBJECTIVES

• To promote healthy lifestyle by teaching the public on how to prepare healthy, delicious and innovative vegetarian cuisine


• To educate the public on health knowledge & disease prevention and to establish a healthy lifestyle

Introduction

• Prepare and send newsletters with professional health information to the public


• Organize health talks for the public


• Provide basic health screenings to the public, including Body Composition Analysis, Blood Glucose Test and Lipid Test, etc


• Provide healthy lifestyle training camps for people suffering from chronic diseases or health conscious individuals


• Organize health promotion projects with other NGOs, governmental departments or community groups


• Develop Wellness Center / Lifestyle Management Center of HKAH, which implement the aforesaid activities

Established in May 2000

To assist those children who suffer from profound hearing loss in Mainland China and Hong Kong; 20% of the Fund is used to help adult patients

The Fund will evaluate children, provide the necessary cochlear implant surgery, and the ensuing speech therapy necessary after the operation. This program is able to restore the gift of sound to around 30 children per year so that they are able to learn and attend normal school

More than 100 underprivileged children to date have benefited from the Fund

Orthopaedic Fund was established in April 2010 to help underprivileged children in Hong Kong who are suffering from congenital orthopaedic problems such as Club Foot, Developmental Dysplasia Hip or Arthrogryposis.