Hayden's Heart is beyond honored to be chosen by Sevenly as their featured charity for this week- CHD awareness week!!
Sevenly has designed a line of clothing with Hayden's Heart and all heart kids in mind that with each purchase this week, benefits Hayden's Heart! For every shirt sold, Sevenly will donate $7 to Hayden's Heart!! By supporting this campaign you are not only helping us raise awareness for the CHD community, but also enabling Hayden's Heart to touch more lives through our care packages, monetary donations, hotel stays and so much more.
Hayden's Heart is completely run by volunteers so every single dollar donated impacts a heart family in need. Please help us reach our goal of $7000 and share this campaign!!
www.sevenly.org/haydensheart
Below are the shirts Sevenly designed for our campaign. Their inspiration comes from our website, our blog, facebook, and overall research on CHD and heart kids as a whole.
I had an opportunity to speak with one of the designers and got some insight on where they came up with these unique and abstract ways of spreading awareness and love for CHD and Hayden's Heart.
The Heart Dreamcatcher:
Every child has dreams- dreams of what they want to be when they grow up, who they want to meet, what they will get for Christmas- childrens' dreams are endless and every child deserves the chance to dream- even babies and children with Congenital Heart Defects. These children are fighting a life long battle and even though at times as parents we wonder how long they will be able to fight- they deserve to dream through it. They deserve to live a life- no matter how long it is- that is full of dreams- of if they will be a fire fighter or a ninja turtle when they grow up- dreams of water parks and sandcastles over summer vacation, dreams of the princesses and video games that Santa will bring them for Christmas this year. This shirt represents all of the heart babies and children fighting hard through it all...and still being able to dream....
'Courage is Already in You'- When reading about Hayden and other heart warriors- a common phrase or nickname heard is 'warrior'. Our babies and children effected with a CHD are literally fighting a battle for their life on sometimes a daily basis. They are heart warriors and anyone who has seen one fight will tell you they give all they have and then some to win their battle- to be a warrior and beat the CHD odds. They need the courage in them to get there- and oh it is so there with these babies and children. 'the courage is already in you'...way more than any of us heart parents ever wanted you to need it- you already have it in you...
'LOVE'- there are two shirts labeled with LOVE for our campaign- but for several reasons. First, it is CHD Awareness week and Heart Awareness Month and when you think of a heart, you think of LOVE. And its Valentines Day! LOVE is all over that Holiday!
But my favorite reasons for the shirts saying LOVE go deeper than either of those two meanings. If you've ever had the pleasure of meeting Hayden- or any other heart child for that matter- you can see the LOVE in their face- in their eyes and smile. These kids LOVE life like nothing I have ever seen. Most of them do not have what we would call an easy life- but they really don't know the difference. They don't know that it's not the norm to have a huge scar down your chest- or a feeding tube through their stomach- or a nurse poking at them 5+ times to try and draw some blood. What they do know is that they are surrounded by such intense LOVE that they exude it. You cant help but fall in LOVE with a heart baby- its just something about those kiddos that just captivates you. And I know with most of you, I am preaching to the choir- as so many of you never even met our Hayden- but you too fell in LOVE with that smile, those eyes- that face- who just found a way to LOVE this life he was living- and I know its because he felt the LOVE that was being sent to him from all over this world. Thank you for loving him...
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