Page 26 - Hussein Revivalism - Issue 16

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Since 2016, a team of volunteers from UK-based Who is Hussain Organization,
Imam Hussain Holy Shrine and India-based Laureatte Educational & Welfare
Foundation have been working hard to save the lives of Iraqi children suffering
One-year-old Haider from
Karbala is the 16th child to be
successfully treated as part of
the #GiveLife campaign.
Haider al-Juboori was born with
a hole in the heart- a structural
defect of the heart known as
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). His
mother felt very helpless, as the
family could not afford to pay for
the surgery required to repair this
congenital heart defect.
His grandfather said, “We went
to many places for treatment and
were denied every time. It was
my dream to see my grandson
smiling.”
Speaking to Hussein Revivalism,
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gives
life to
Iraqi
children
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from heart problems.
Dr. Zakaria Sultan, member of needy, made use of the platform
Who is Hussain Organization in to launch the #GiveLife campaign
India, said, “During my visit to in collaboration with Imam
Iraq, I saw an orphaned child who Hussain Holy Shrine.
looked visibly upset. I couldn’t Holy Shrine coordinator Mr.
speak Arabic but I understood Haider al-Mangooshi said, “Imam
that the child had been suffering Hussain Holy Shrine’s main role
from a congenital heart defect and is finding poor Iraqi children with
needed surgery.” heart problems that cannot afford
Zakaria felt that there is little that treatment and introducing the
he could do to save that child and campaign to them.”
many others like him. However, The Organization then covers all
after coming back to India, he treatment costs and Laureatte
decided to take matters into his Foundation Chairman Mr. Aga
own hands. Sultan provides free food and
Who is Hussain, a global non- accommodation during their stay
profit organization that works to in Bangalore, where the treatment
empower the deprived and the is done at Naryana Health City by