http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org Helping Guyana's Children Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:30:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en July 2010 - Three Rivers Kids Foundation will be sending Rockel Gladstone, 20 years old, to India soon for a kidney transplant. [image title="Rockel Gladstone" size="thumbnail" id="358" align="center" ] Rockel Gladstone, 20, requires dialysis treatment twice weekly in Georgetown because of her non-functioning kidneys but her family is struggling to cover the ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/rockel-gladstone/ Three Rivers Kids Foundation will be sending another group of children to India for much needed surgery in February, 2011, and is appealing for your help. Please see some of their pictures below: [gallery link="file" orderby="post_name"] http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/upcoming-mission-heartbeat-february-2011/ May 2010 - Three Rivers Kids Foundation is attempting to raise US $20,000 to help Satish Gobin. [image title="Satish Gobin" size="thumbnail" id="340" align="center" ] Paraphrased from Kaieteur News Online: The heart-wrenching story of nineteen year-old Satish Gobin who was recently diagnosed with chronic renal failure, epitomises the tragedy of living in a ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/satish-gobin/ [excerpt from the Guyana Chronicle. Original article can be found here.] On Friday, April 16th, 2010, Three Rivers Kids Foundation officially opened its office in Guyana with free workplace space provided by the Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO). Speaking with the Guyana Chronicle newspaper yesterday at the GYO building on Woolford Avenue, Georgetown, ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/guyana-office-opening/ Six Guyanese children returned home on February 14th, 2010, after successfully receiving medical attention in Delhi, India, at the Max Heart and Vascular institute. The group was sponsored by the Three Rivers Kids Foundation, a registered charitable organization in Ontario Canada. [image title="Mission Heartbeat - January 2010. Children who were taken ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/mission-heartbeat-jan-2010/ On March 8th, 2009, Three Rivers Kids Foundation took another 9 patients from Guyana to Delhi, India for much needed medical treatment. The group comprising of 8 children and 1 adult along with an accompanying family member each arrived in Delhi on March 10th/2009 after staying in Toronto for 2 ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/mission-heartbeat-march-2009/ Three Rivers Kids Foundation is holding a special fundraiser on Sunday, October 11th, 2009 to help save Alvin Ramkumar. Alvin is 14 years old and hails from Best Village, West Coast Demerara, Guyana. He was born with one kidney and has now developed complex renal disorder which cannot be treated ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/fundraiser-for-alvin-ramkumar/ Three Rivers Kids Foundation is planning to take another group of 8 children to India for open heart surgery in March 2009. Please see their pictures below. The children will also be present at our fundraising event on March 7, 2009. [gallery link="file" columns="3" size=”125×125xcrop”] http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/upcoming-mission-heartbeat-february-2009/ 13 Guyanese patients return home after medical treatment in India In 30 months, Three Rivers Kids Foundation has successfully treated 46 patients In May 2008 Three Rivers Kids Foundation of Ontario helped thirteen Guyanese patients attain much needed life saving medical ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/report-of-mission-heartbeat-may-2008/ Three Rivers Kids foundation is committed to helping the sick and poor children of Guyana. We have about 100 sick children on our waiting list - some of them need urgent medical attention to save their lives. However, we do not have enough funds to get all the children treated ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/mission-heartbeat-may-2008/ In January 2008, Three Rivers Kids Foundation organized a free cardiac clinic held in Guyana. The clinic was conducted by Dr. Viresh Mahajan and Dr. Anil Bhan, both from Delhi, India. The cardiac clinic was performed free of charge. Two days were designated for the screening of children, and two ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/free-cardiac-clinic-in-guyana-january-2008/ Heartning News - Another 9 children from Guyana treated successfully in India. 6 children had open heart surgery, one child had neurosurgery, one had livery surgery, and one child had kidney treatment. [gallery link="file" orderby="post_name"] "Have a heart" -- most of us have used this phrase at some point. But what do ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/mission-heartbeat-july-2007/ Seven more Guyanese children treated in India In the past 14 months, from September 2005 to November 2006, through the generosity of Guyanese-Canadians across Canada and the Sikh Community of Toronto, Three Rivers Kids Foundation, a registered charitable organization in Ontario, in collaboration with The Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG), ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/report-of-mission-heartbeat-november-2006/ New life for 8 children from Guyana On April 28th 2006, Jeanette Singh, the President of Three Rivers Kids Foundation, a registered charitable organization in Canada accompanied 8 children from Guyana to The Heart Centre in Delhi where they all had open heart surgery. The names of the children are Fiaz ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/report-of-mission-heartbeat-april-2006/ On September 23rd, 2005, President of Three Rivers Kids Foundation, Jeanette Singh, a Registered Nurse on this inaugural trip took 4 children from Guyana to Chennai, India for corrective heart surgery. Three Rivers Kids Foundation paid $12,000 USD which covered the total cost of all four surgeries. The Ministry of ... http://www.threeriverskidsfoundation.org/report-of-mission-heartbeat-september-2005/