A Community Heals a Heart

happy baby crawling with a healthy heart thanks to Mayo Clinic and community support

For over twenty years, Samaritan’s Purse’s Children’s Heart Project and Mayo Clinic have been partnering to provide lifesaving operations for children from Bosnia, Kosovo, Honduras, Uganda, Mongolia, and Bolivia. Healing hearts is not just a job of two organizations.

It takes a wider group effort. It takes families. It takes a community.

Rochester International Airport commissioned a short film documentary that followed the five-week journey inside Mayo Clinic and host family homes showcasing the lifesaving medical care and community support through food, lodging, transportation, and overall hospitality for the children, parents, and interpreters.

Thank you to our amazing community and all those involved in this beautiful story.

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