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. 2019 Jun 13;7:214. doi: 10.3389/fped.2019.00214

Table 1.

Some groups doing cardiac surgical missions.

Number Name of organization Websites
1 American College of Surgeons https://www.facs.org/ogb
2 Bambini/Cardiopatici Nel Mondo www.bambinicardiopatici.it/
3 Be Like Brit https://www.belikebrit.org/
4 Cardiostart https://cardiostart.org/
5 Chain of hope https://www.chainofhope.org/
6 Children's Heart link https://childrensheartlink.org/
7 Crudem http://crudem.org/
8 CTSNET https://www.ctsnet.org/
9 European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery https://www.eacts.org/
10 Earth Med https://www.earthmed.org/
11 European heart for Children http://www.europeanheartforchildren.com/
12 For hearts and Souls http://forheartsandsouls.org/
13 Foundation Mauritanienne duCoeur www.mauritanie-coeur.org
14 Frontier Lifeline http://www.frontierlifeline.com/
15 Gift of Life International, Inc. http://www.giftoflifeinternational.org/
16 Global Healing https://globalhealing.org/
17 Global Heart Network https://globalheartnetwork.wordpress.com/
18 Global Impact https://www.charity.org/index.html
19 Haitian Hearts http://www.haitianhearts.org/
20 Healing the Children http://healingthechildren.org/
21 Hearts Around the World http://www.heartsaroundtheworld.org/
22 Heart to Heart https://www.heart-2-heart.org/
23 Heartbeat International Foundation https://www.heartbeatsaveslives.org/
24 Heart Care International https://www.heartcareintl.org/
25 Hearts for All https://www.coeurspourtous.ch/
26 International Aid http://www.internationalaid.org/
27 International Children's Heart Foundation https://www.babyheart.org/
28 International Children's Heart Fund http://www.ichfund.org/
29 Heal A Child https://www.heal-a-child.org/
30 Magdi Yacoub Foundation https://myf-egypt.org
31 MAP International https://www.map.org/
32 Mending Kids International https://www.mendingkids.org/
33 Mercy Ships https://www.mercyships.org/
34 Novick Cardiac Alliance https://cardiac-alliance.org/
35 Open Heart International https://ohi.org.au/
36 Palestine Children's Relief Fund https://www.pcrf.net/
37 Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons https://www.paacs.net/
38 Physicians for Peace http://www.physiciansforpeace.org/
39 Project Kids https://www.projectkidsworldwide.org
40 Project Haiti Heart http://projecthaitiheart.org/
41 Project Hope https://www.projecthope.org/
42 Project Open Hearts http://www.poh.org/
43 Project Medishare http://projectmedishare.org/
44 Russian Gift of Life http://rgolusa.org/
45 Samaritan's Purse-International Relief https://www.samaritanspurse.org/
46 Save A Childs Heart Foundation https://www.saveachildsheart.org/
47 Surgeons of Hope Foundation https://surgeonsofhope.org/
48 Team Heart- Rwanda https://teamheart.org/
49 The Heart of a Child Foundation http://www.heartofachild.org/
50 The Childrens Lifeline http://childrens-lifeline.org/
51 Vina Capital Foundation https://vinacapitalfoundation.org/en/
52 Walter Sisulu Pediatric Cardiac Foundation https://wspcf.wordpress.com/
53 World Heart Federation https://www.world-heart-federation.org/
54 World Pediatric Project https://www.worldpediatricproject.org/

Source- International Children's Heart Fund website (http://www.ichfund.org/Content/Organizations.htm). For more comprehensive list please refer to Nguyen et al. (10).