...and celebrate life just like Sarah! 

Dear Supporters, we are sorry to inform you that the Run for Sarah 5K and 1 mile run will not take place this year - 2012.  The past 14 months have been a year of transition, change and growth for our cause, Saving Kids from Sudden Cardiac Arrest.  In late 2010, Cook Children’s Medical Center recognized the problem and launched Project ADAM Texas and asked Laura to join the team as the Program Coordinator.  With this new opportunity and continued mission, we have made tremendous strides in a relatively short period of time. In only one year, we have been able to reach out and speak to a total of 26,425 people. That’s amazing. 

Please know this is not the end of the run for us. It means too much to all of us. Run for Sarah will return and everyone involved will make sure it is even more spectacular than ever before. It’s what our daughter, Sarah, deserves.  

This was a very tough decision for us. We all love the Run for Sarah 5K, but it is a big production to put together, taking months, manpower and hours to get it right. Much of Laura’s focus this year has been to make sure that AEDs are in all Texas Public Schools.  In 2011, Run for Sarah donated four AEDs and implemented Emergency Action Plans in schools, bringing the total to 60 donated AEDs. We know that with this lifesaving training and AED devices, lives have been saved. Sarah never had that chance, but other people will through the legacy of our angel.

In 2011, Texas was blessed to see the lives of nine students and staff SAVED with an AED on school property. Four of these lives have been saved in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.  Alex age 13.. was saved at an Azle middle school with our Run for Sarah AED and the school nurse that saved him, was trained with our Project ADAM materials, proving, again, the need for this work. 

The Run for Sarah 5K, is the foundation’s only fundraising event.  All funds received are used to purchase AEDs and CPR/AED training to save young lives. The Sarah Friend Heart Foundation is a charitable foundation pursuant to Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code.  

There are scores of schools throughout Texas that need help in securing funds in order to be in compliance with Texas State Law.  If your organization, family or friends are interested in planning a fundraising event to benefit the Sarah Friend Heart Foundation, such as dinners, golf tournaments, wear jeans day, softball tournaments, volleyball, and bake sales, please feel free to contact us.

Sarah's short life brought us much joy and happiness and her spirit lives on in each one of us. We have learned that in the seven years that we’ve lost her, there is not a day or moment that we don’t think of her smiling face and grieve for the child that is with Jesus.  The life we once lived will never be again.

Thank you for your love, support and donations. The Sarah Friend Heart Foundation will continue and, any money you donate will be used to further the goals on which Sarah’s Foundation is based.   

We are so very proud of Sarah and the impact she continues to make. 

Sarah’s Mom and Dad 

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