The Heart To Heart foundation is a Kenyan medical charity dedicated to the control prevention and treatment of heart disease in children. Heart to heart foundation was established in 1993 under the trustee’s act of the laws of Kenya and has been running four programmes namely:
- Management and treatment of Heart disease – open heart surgeries in children (curative programme of Heart to Heart foundation)
- Rheumatic fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease – prevention and control
- Annual fund raising programmes
- Heart Run every March
- Goat Derby every August
- Gala Dinner every November/December
- Research programme
The establishment of the Heart to Heart foundation was a realization of a dream of two founder trustees, Dr. B.M. Gikonyo and Dr. Dan Gikonyo. The two heart specialist’s vision arose from the realization that the local heart specialists could not treat their patients to the logical end despite their experience and expertise due to the financial constraints experienced by the affected families.