Young Hearts Africa Foundation

19/06/2026

Congenital heart disease is treatable.
What is missing, for thousands of South African families, is the funding to access that treatment.
Heart disease kills more people than the six most common cancers combined. Yet it remains strangely invisible.
Your donation helps close the gap between what is possible and what families can afford.
R50. R100. Every amount helps fund a life saving surgery.

DONATE TODAY: https://youngheartsafrica.org/donations/

05/06/2026

June is the month we honour the youth of our country and celebrate their lives and their futures.
Sadly, every day there are mothers sitting in hospital corridors waiting for news about their babies hearts. The funds are just not available for surgery and their future will be devastating. Please give them the hope they deserve this Youth Month, be that someone.
Donate to Young Hearts Africa. R100 is all it takes to be part of saving a life.
Donate today: https://youngheartsafrica.org/donations/

29/05/2026

90% of children in South Africa born with heart defects never get the surgery they need. Not because it can't be done. But because their families simply can't afford it.

This Youth Month, help us change that - one small donation at a time.

R50. R100. Whatever you can. Together, we can fund the surgeries that turn heartbreak into hope.

Young Hearts Africa has already saved 32 precious lives. Help us save the next one.
Every rand counts.

Visit youngheartsafrica.org to donate or partner with us.

19/05/2026

This Thursday, our founder takes on the cold. 7.5km to Robben Island. Not for a medal. For children he's never met.

He's doing his part. Now we do ours. Every donation funds surgery. Every share spreads hope. The clock is ticking.

Back the swim. Save a heart. Donate here: https://youngheartsafrica.org/beat-the-wave-save-a-life/

The icy Atlantic between Robben Island and the Cape Town coastline is one of the world’s most unforgiving stretches of open water. Cold currents. Unpredictable swells. Twelve degrees Celsius of pure, relentless ocean.

15/05/2026

This May, our founder Dr Wilhelm Lichtenberg is swimming 7.5km from Robben Island to Big Bay. Freezing water. Strong currents. A heart set on one goal: saving children with CHD.

He's doing his part. Will you do yours?

Your donation funds life-saving surgery. Your share spreads hope. Together, we can save hundreds of young hearts.

Donate today: https://youngheartsafrica.org/beat-the-wave-save-a-life/

12/05/2026

This May, our Founder, Dr Wilhelm Lichtenberg will be swimming 7.5km from Robben Island to Blaauwberg.
He has taken on this challenge to raise funds and awareness for our foundation and its cause.

Together, with your donations and support, we can save hundreds of children suffering with CHD.
Together we can make a difference!

Donate Today: https://youngheartsafrica.org/beat-the-wave-save-a-life/

Read about Dr Wilhelm's thoughts, challenges, and goals in his most recent blog: https://wilhelmlichtenberg.co.za/the-six-inches-between-my-ears-a-crossing-of-water-memory-and-becoming/

30/04/2026

He giggles, looks healthy, smiles. But beneath the surface, his heart is working twice as hard.

Don't wait for the crisis. Help before the struggle becomes silence.

Donate to the cause today, help save a child's life: https://youngheartsafrica.org/donations/

24/04/2026

Surgeons have the skill. Hospitals have the beds. Families have the love. But without funding, none of it matters.

That's where you come in. Your donation is the missing piece. The one thing that turns possibility into a beating heart.

Be the missing piece. Donate now: https://youngheartsafrica.org/donations/

17/04/2026

R50 won't change your day. But it could change a child's entire life.

Every Rand we receive goes directly to life-saving heart surgery for children whose families have nothing. No fancy overhead. Just hearts being healed.

Give what you can. Save who you can. Donate: https://youngheartsafrica.org/donations/

10/04/2026

For a child with Congenital Heart Disease, each beat is a small miracle. Each breath, a quiet victory. But too many children never get the chance to write their full story.

Young Hearts Africa exists to change that. One surgery. One child. One future at a time.

Help write the next chapter. Donate here: https://youngheartsafrica.org/donations/