Make hundreds of little hearts beat in the world.
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“Bëhu engjëlli im.” “Kuwa malaika wangu.” “Менің періштем бол.” “Diventa il mio angelo.”
The requests for help arrive from children with serious heart diseases who cannot be treated in their countries of origin, in all the languages of the world. They need our intervention and your heart: become the angel they are waiting for.
Help us save a little heart patient who cannot be operated on in his country.
TWO BEATING HEARTS BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES
Donate and make a little heart patient fly towards life-saving treatment.
Some children are born with congenital heart disease, others develop it in the first months of life: only if treated promptly, these heart failures resolve with a high chance of survival, otherwise the epilogue is often tragic.
Children born with or who develop heart disease represent over 80% of those helped each year by Flying Angels.
The Flying Angels special project helps girls and boys with heart disease to reach a hospital as soon as possible to undergo the surgery necessary for survival. Despite their heart disease, these children can almost always fly on commercial airplanes, accompanied by a parent or a health worker
Your help is essential to finance short- and long-haul flights to specialized medical facilities to provide the little ones with specialized procedures that are impossible in their countries of origin.
Let their hearths fly
Our goal for 2024
There are many children in the world who need intervention, often emergency, to get life-saving care. Our goal this year is to get the following to specialized hospitals:
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Every donation can bring a child closer to the surgery that can correct their heart disease. Be the angel they are waiting for and help us reach our goal.
Together we have already saved many children
Thanks to the progress of medical, interventional and surgical techniques, the chances of survival for children with congenital heart disease or heart disease that developed in the first months of life have increased significantly and allow the restoration of a cardiac function compatible with a normal lifestyle.
In 2022 and 2023 we flew 260 children with heart disease, mainly from the Balkan area, Mediterranean countries, Africa and South America, to undergo surgical operations necessary for survival.
2022
Thanks to your donations, in the first year of the project we have already achieved exceptional results by making
110 bambini
2023
In the second year of the project, again thanks to your support, we flew to urgent medical care
150 bambini
Testimonials
Fallou, 8
“A heart disease too complex to operate on in Senegal was in danger of being fatal. The life-saving flight to Italy gave him a new future, no longer afraid to laugh, play, live like any other boy his age.”
Faye, the cousin
Bledion, 14
“He was playing football when he collapsed. His congenital heart disease could only be treated in Italy. We flew from Kosovo to Verona. Without Flying Angels he would have had no hope.” Lumnije, the mother
Sibongile, 3
“The doctors feared she would not survive the flight and advised against it, but I knew that here she would have no hope because they could not treat her. So we left, our first flight. As a bedtime story now I tell her about the journey that saved her.” Chengetai, the mother
Faida, 5
“In Burundi, no facility wanted to operate on her complex heart disease because of the -unfounded- suspicion that she was HIV-positive. A life-saving flight brought her to Italy. The operation was completed without complications and gave her a new life. Dylla Gaelle, the mother
Flying Angels Foundation is a non-profit organization that specializes in airlifting seriously ill children who require life-saving care that is unavailable in their home countries.
Flying Angels Foundation assists children from all over the world who need delicate specialist care: it buys for them and their families the airline tickets needed to quickly reach the most suitable hospital facilities or finances the flight of specialized medical teams who can resolve multiple cases together directly on site. It collaborates continuously with important humanitarian organizations that report the most urgent situations and with numerous doctors from the main Italian pediatric hospitals. For very serious clinical situations, for which a flight on a scheduled airplane is impossible, airplanes with medical equipment and dedicated health personnel are used to assist the little ones in flight. If necessary, the Foundation provides its support for the bureaucratic procedures required by Italian consular offices around the world, opening contacts and providing the necessary documentation for issuing visas.