UPDATE: We have lowered the fundraising goal because the family has been able to find another hospital, Hotel Dieu, with specialists who can do the surgery at a much lower cost than the American University of Beirut Medical Center. The total cost of the surgery will be $20,000, and $10,000 of that will be covered by a philanthropic fund. HOWEVER, the hospital will not admit baby Jawad or do the surgery until the receive the full amount. In addition, the family has already incurred several thousand dollars in costs for his care at the hospital where he was born, which does not have the ability to do the surgery. We urgently need to reach $10,000 in order to be able to get him admitted to Hotel Dieu and into surgery.


Baby Jawad was born in a Beirut hospital with a heart defect that requires open heart surgery. He urgently needs to be transferred to the American University of Beirut Medical Center where specialists are prepared to perform the surgery, but the cost - even after a discount from the hospital and contribution by a philanthropic fund - is $41,000, and the hospital requires an upfront payment of $20,000 before they will transfer him. Baby Jawad's parents have no way to raise that kind of money. His mother's heart is breaking.

Please help save Baby Jawad's life and give him and his family a future.

If the full amount of funds is not raised via this campaign, the money will still be given to the family to go toward the medical costs for baby Jawad's care.