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Looking at her photos, you can see the frailty in 3-year old Yuxiu. She is a congenital heart disease patient. That means she was born with a heart condition and needs heart surgery to survive. Now imagine you are in a time machine and consider these to be the “before pictures,” as we at HeartGift Houston trust her recovery will start here. Yuxiu and her mom will fly in from Beijing, China and are scheduled to arrive on Friday, September 9 in Houston, Texas for a lifesaving heart surgery. A Chinese family from the Houston Chinese Church has volunteered to be Yuxiu and Liquian's hosts. That means there’s a place to stay before and after the surgery, so mom and patient will be surrounded by loving, everyday heroes who also speak their language! Yuxiu’s open-heart surgery is scheduled for Thursday, September 15 at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital. Yuxiu is the second child we have the honor to serve in Houston this year and we already have another patient in the queue for October. Should you care to make a donation towards these lifesaving surgeries, you may do so online here. Be sure to select Houston as the beneficiary chapter in the online form. If you are just moved by this post, please share it with others.
 You can join with other supporters of Houston Chapter of HeartGift to help a 6 month old baby boy, Angel, from Santa Ana, El Salvador, and his mom Patricia, have a warm Texas welcome. Our mission at is to provide lifesaving pediatric heart surgery to children living in developing countries where specialized medical treatment is scarce of nonexistent. We are proud that Angel is our special guest for heart surgery.
Angel will arrive in Houston this Saturday, May 21. He is scheduled to have open-heart surgery on Wednesday, May 25. After he is released from the hospital, Angel and his mom will be guests at the home of Houston Police Sgt. TJ Salazar and his wife Sandra. With our prayers and support, baby and mom will return to El Salvador at the end of June, to look forward to a full and healthy life. To make these wishes come true, we need your help. You can be part of the support team. You can: • Meet and welcome Angel and Mom as they arrive on Saturday at 5:45 p.m. at Hobby Airport • Contribute a gift card to Target, Randalls, HEB, or Walgreens/CVS or Visa/Amex for any dollar amount to provide for toiletries, diapers, baby clothes and food OR make a charitable contribution toward the expenses (All gifts are acknowledged with charitable tax receipt) • Deliver meals (maybe El Salvador flavored) to be delivered to the host family and/or deliver the meals and visit Angel and Mom at the Salazar's after June 4 • Plan a social visit to the host family to visit during the recovery period • Volunteer to provide some transportation as needed • Volunteer to help with the farewell picnic near the end of June • Volunteer to "babysit" while the host mom and Patrica have some respite • Please mail any gift cards or checks made payable to HEARTGIFT, 402 TEETSHORN ST., HOUSTON, TX. 77007 For more information on Heartgif Houston or how you can help Angel, call Jerry Wische, Executive Drector, at 713-553-9229 or jwische@heartgift.org.
 Jerry Wische has been a non-profit professional for more than 35 years, serving in an executive capacity with the Jewish Community Center of Houston and as a volunteer leader with the United Way of Greater Houston, the San Jacinto Girl Scouts, the Harris County Protective Services Fund, the Volunteer Center and other groups dedicated to improving the lives of children and the elderly.
He has been a mentor to executive directors and a trainer for senior managers with diverse agencies and organizations in the greater Houston area and across the USA. He continues to provide leadership and board development seminars and programs for the non-profit community.
The Houston Board of Directors proudly welcomes Jerry!!!
HeartGift Houston announces the arrival of its' first patient, Liu Yan, an 11 year old boy from China who suffered from Tetralogy of Fallot. Yan traveled from the Shanxi province to Houston in August with his mother and underwent lifesaving heart surgery on September 2nd. The surgery was performed by Dr. Charles Fraser and his medical team at Texas Children's Hospital. Yan lives in a small village with his parents, and was affected by the massive Sichuan earthquake in 2008. While in Houston, Yan lived with a volunteer host family and was assisted by the Houston Chinese Church. Below are pictures of Yan in China before his surgery, and also with a special visitor, Houston Rocket's star Yao Ming, who visited Yao after his surgery. 
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