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Christmas Web Banners

Jeremy Courtney — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:05:28 GMT

Below is a smattering of Christmas web banners for your usage in promoting PLC via your blog, website, MySpace, or Facebook in these final days leading to Christmas and the end of the year.
1. Right click to “Save as…”
2. Upload to your website/blog
3. and link to http://preemptivelove.org/gifts-of-the-heart/

PLC Partners with Rosa Loves to ‘Save Hussein’

Jeremy Courtney — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:50:38 GMT

Our friends over at Rosa Loves are making some noise with a new shirt they’ve launched in their line of charitable clothing. Sixty percent of the sale from each of their new Hope Transfusion shirts will help send little Hussein to surgery. Hussein’s story is also printed on the inside of the shirt so you [...]

Pinwheels on Fountain Mall - Baylor

Jeremy Courtney — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:28:38 GMT

This past week, some students from Baylor have been raising awareness on campus about the 3,000 Iraqi children who are dying on a waiting list to receive the heart surgery they desperately need. The students from the Baylor Students for Social Justice did this as one of the inaugural PLC Pinwheels events. The [...]

2 surgeries already done!

Jeremy Courtney — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:48:28 GMT

Rezhin and Tarza just barely arrived with our partner organization before they received the news that they could head right in for surgery! If you’ve read some of the other posts here you may have seen that some kids can have a lengthy waiting process until they can have their surgery. Rezhin and Tarza waited [...]

When Words Aren’t Cheap

Jeremy Courtney — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:55:26 GMT

A good portion of our work in the Preemptive Love Coalition involves words. Talking, emailing, blogging, marketing, speaking – we do it all. We talk consistently about funding life-saving heart surgeries for over 3,000 Iraqi kids who are dying on a waiting list. We talk about the need for an urgent intervention of love just [...]

Summer Internship Video #1 by Chris Taylor

Jeremy Courtney — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:51:05 GMT

Check out the work of one of our summer interns, Chris Taylor, and he and the other interns encourage you and your parents to consider interning with the Preemptive Love Coalition in Iraq this summer. A little concerned? Audrey says, “It’s no big deal” when you tell your parents the first time. But we’re also [...]

Sara getting stronger

Jeremy Courtney — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:54:09 GMT

Sara continues to heal and gain back her strength following her heart surgery on October 15th and then an infection. Her father remains vigilant by her side, coaching her to eat more and take the right precautions in her recovery. On Monday they removed her IV medication and the doctors made plans to release her from [...]

Shanaw and Kale heading home!

Jeremy Courtney — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:54:09 GMT

Shanaw cleared to return home to Iraq

On Monday both girls had their final echocardiogram, revealing beautifully strong beating hearts. Shanaw and Kale have been fully released from the doctor’s care and are now on their way back to homes and families in Iraq with new hearts. Besides the presence of scars on their chests, you’d [...]

Skate Across Florida meets Dalton/Addington

Jeremy Courtney — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:21:55 GMT

Over the summer we told you about some cool guys in Florida who decided to Skate Across Florida for the Preemptive Love Coalition to raise funds for Iraqi children waiting in line for heart surgery.
At the end of the summer we told you about Matt Addington and Michael Dalton - two documentarians who were using [...]

Kurdish Student Organization Raises $ for PLC

Jeremy Courtney — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:23:56 GMT

The Kurdish Student Organization at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA has been out and about raising funds for Kurdish and Arab children in need of heart surgeries outside Iraq.
From cookie bakes to candy sales - and an upcoming night of live comedy and music performances - the KSO is epitomizing all the ways [...]