After traveling to Rwanda as a volunteer, Ceeya Patton Bolman returned to Boston, recruited her husband Chip (a heart surgeon), and joined a group of ICU nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital to form Team Heart. They registered the organization as a 501c3 in 2009. What began as a single volunteer trip, became a life long journey.

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This trip grew into a commitment to developing a sustainable program to increase prevention, education, and early intervention. The team would also build a foundation for offering life-saving care to Rwanda’s rheumatic heart disease (RHD) patients. The co-founders have continued to seek ways to provide more care with help from a team of dedicated volunteers—those who are involved in raising donations at home, offering on-the-ground support in Africa, and are committed to keep the program robust and growing.

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