For over six decades, the Sir Victor Sassoon (Bahamas) Heart Foundation has stood beside Bahamian families through the hardest days of their lives — funding the care their children need, and the long road back to health.
Each year, Bahamian children are born with heart conditions their families cannot treat on their own. Without surgery, many will not reach adulthood. With it, they grow up, go to school, and become parents themselves one day.
The Sir Victor Sassoon (Bahamas) Heart Foundation exists to make sure that no Bahamian family ever has to choose between their child's life and what they can afford. We fund the care, the travel where it is needed, and the long road of recovery that brings a child fully back to health.
A child's heart is small enough to hold in two hands. The work of mending it changes everything that comes after.
Founded in 1961 by Lady Sassoon in memory of her late husband Sir Victor, the Foundation is privately funded — sustained by donations and by the Annual Heart Ball each February. Lady Sassoon's enduring endowment covers our overhead, so that gifts from the public go almost entirely where they are meant to: to the children themselves.
We pay for the care that a child's family cannot.
Some Bahamian children are born with hearts that need mending, care their families cannot provide on their own. The diagnosis is the beginning of a journey no parent ever expects to take.
We make sure that journey doesn't end at a hospital bill. The Foundation funds the care a child needs — at home or abroad — and stays beside the family through the months that follow.
A child who comes home. A child who returns to school. A family who, in time, thinks of all this as something that happened once, long ago.
Behind every donation is a child, a family, and a future that would not exist without the generosity of people like you.
There is no online portal. The Foundation has always operated by cheque — a quiet, traceable form of giving that has served Bahamian children faithfully for decades. Every gift you write brings a child one step closer to coming home well.