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Listen to Your Heart

With your help, we will be able to purchase two probes for echocardiograms critical to improved cardiac care in Tanzania.

We save lives by developing heart care in Africa, especially for children and young adults living in poverty.

Our Initiative

We are helping KCMC hospital in Northern Tanzania build a comprehensive cardiovascular center to serve 15 million people.

Currently there are no cardiac specialists in this region of Tanzania. Children and young adults are hardest hit, as they are the populations most affected by heart disease in Tanzania.

Many who desperately need care are unable to access it.

Our Goals

KCMC’s goal is to provide quality cardiac care for those who need it in their region, but also to become a cardiac specialty training center for clinicians in East and Southern Africa.

There are just a few cardiac training centers in Africa now, and no clear way for African countries to rapidly develop cardiac care for their people.

Our goal at FCCA is to support KCMC and two additional new or expanded cardiac training programs in Africa, to catalyze a more rapid scale-up of care.

With your help, FCCA and partners will save thousands of lives. Our goal is to catalyze a movement to develop cardiac care across Africa.

Recent News

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Gaudensia's Story

Meet Gaudensia 12-year-old Gaudensia was diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease a year ago. She had...

Benedicto's Story

Meet Benedicto. Benedicto is a 20-year-old from Moshi, Tanzania who needs open heart surgery to replace...

Sarah’s Story

We have good news to report about a KCMC patient, Sarah – a young adult who was treated recently for...

The number of cardiac patients could be overwhelming. I’m glad I can be there to help.

Dr. Carmelo Panetta, a Minnesota-based interventional cardiologist, has been coordinating a video cardiovascular...