Take Heart Association Project (THAP) is a registered Non-governmental Organisation which helps needy children with heart disease to obtain treatment. For underprivileged families in Kenya the cost of treating heart ailments is far beyond their reach. Children die needlessly, either because they cannot afford treatment or are ignorant of what ails them. THAP has working relationships with several cardiologists who refer such needy cases to us.
For the poorest of families in Kenya whose children suffer from congenital heart defects and rheumatic heart disease, Take Heart Association Project is currently the only grassroots organization of its kind assisting in raising funds and negotiating the maze of paperwork and logistical procedures associated with obtaining the needed life-saving surgeries for their children, as well as post-operative care. Kenya has 200,000 new cases of rheumatic heart disease and 10,000 cases of children born with congenital heart disease annually More than 10,000 babies are born in Kenya with a congenital heart defect each year.. Lacking the access to modern medical care, many of these children die needlessly in their early childhood years.