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Walk to Zambia 2012
2012-03-25*How far do you think you could walk to save a life?* Steph and two 17yr old patients 2 days postop - 2011 How about 12,523 kms? That’s how far a...
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Scheduled Date: 2012-03-25
How far do you think you could walk to save a life?
How about 12,523 kms? That’s how far a team of 35 heart specialists from the Mutima Project travelled in March 2011! During their three week mission, they carried out the first seven of 100 planned heart valve replacements on young Zambians.
In Zambia, Mutima means heart and we are appealing to your heart to help us on our fundraising drive to get us there.
We invite you to join us on a sponsored walkathon around North Hagley park entitled Walk to Zambia. The distance between Christchurch Hospital and the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia is 12,523 km target and it would take 2,083 people to walk the six kilometre distance around North Hagley Park to achieve this. We would like you, your family and friends to join us on this 6km walk and to help raise funds by collecting sponsorship. We need $200,000 to make the second mission happen.
Can you walk six kilometres to help save a life of a young Zambian who desperately needs a heart valve replacement?
Date: Sunday, 25th March 2012
Time: 11:00am
Venue: North Hagley Park
Register now here or by clicking on the registration button on the top right hand corner of this page.
'Just a thought' - Thanks to support from medical companies, we’ve managed to bring the cost of each heart valve operation in the project down to around $5,000 but that is still out of reach for someone who lives on $1 a day. A donation of $1,000 will buy a new mechanical heart valve, $25 can buy a set of singe-use tubing used to connect the patient to the heart and lung machine, $95 can pay for a set of sterile linen needed for one operation or $3.50 will buy a pair of sterile gloves.
