Heart Kids & Stories

The following are just a small selection of the many thousands affected by Childhood Heart Disease.

Facts about Childhood Heart Disease

  • Is the most common birth abnormality affecting 1 in every 100 babies
  • 6 babies each day are born with a heart condition
  • Heart Disease is the greatest killer of children under 5
  • Takes more lives than all other childhood diseases - twice that of cancer
  • HeartKids fill approx half the beds in all major children's hospitals

Click the children's images below to view their stories.

Holly Everingham
Levi McCormack
Maddison Watkins
Makayla Tyrrell
Daniel Sherlock
Jensen Ashby
William Hodgkins
Elizabeth Heldzingen
Chelsea Mason