Stiftung KinderHerz

About Stiftung KinderHerz
Side by side in favour of children with heart diseases

Destinies that touch us
About one in 100 children born has a heart defect, the most common organ disease in newborns. Worldwide, about 1.3 million babies are born with congenital heart defects every year. This is a shocking figure and therefore worth a call to action.

What we do
Seventy percent of affected children would die without treatment, and more than 25 percent of these children with heart defects require open-heart surgery. This is why children with heart diseases and their families are at the centre of the KinderHerz Foundation’s activities: specialised children’s heart centres are necessary to ensure the quality of care for patients according to current medical possibilities.
Paediatric cardiac surgery and cardiology have developed excellently over the last 25 years, especially in Germany. In view of tight budgets, this must also be guaranteed for the coming years. German paediatric heart centres can continue to make an important contribution to the development of innovative medical standards worldwide
The KinderHerz Foundation works closely with almost 20 paediatric heart centres in Germany. Our partners and cooperations extend across Germany and beyond. An important aspect of our work is the networking of experts and medical centres throughout Germany to ensure the transfer and exchange of knowledge.
In this way, the results achieved in specific areas of paediatric cardiology and also in related disciplines will have the greatest impact and lead to the fastest success in helping children all over the world.
We want a world where children with congenital heart defects have the same life expectancy as their healthy friends.

8,700 children with a severe heart disease per year are our motivation as the KinderHerz Stiftung