By Jerusalem Post Staff - April 20, 2022
A 15-year-old from Tanzania has received life-saving heart surgery at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, thanks to funds collected by a 12-year-old girl.
In the months leading up to and following her July 2021 Bat Mitzvah, Amelie Anderson, who is from the United Kingdom, raised $18,000 to support the charity Save A Child’s Heart (SACH), quickly surpassing her original goal of $15,000.
Based in Holon, Israel, SACH has saved at least 6,000 pediatric heart care patients who live in countries with limited or no access to medicine.
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