2009 bought us all together again for the annual CDH Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Our former volunteers for the UK and Australia had both achieved nonprofit status in their respective countries and were awarded trophies by CHERUBS for their hard work to create CHERUBS UK and CHERUBS Australia. The CDH Study Group, Mass General, …
2002 brought the first genetic study for CDH in Boston, the first CHERUBS UK get-together and our first office! We moved onto “Wall Street” in Oxford, North Carolina when the charity outgrew the president’s house. We also helped with a television show and learned how to hold many new types of fundraisers. In one year, …
From CDH International / CHERUBS Founder, Dawn Ireland: We’ve worked with families in the UK since 1995 and had International Representatives for our charity until 2004 when we helped our contracted volunteers, Kevin and Brenda Lane, start CDH UK (it started as CHERUBS UK) 16 years ago. They signed our legal contracts as volunteers of …
UPDATE 8 June 2020: CDH International is now a registered charity in the United Kingdom. Charity no. 1189819 CDH International – Registered UK Charity no. 1189819http://www.cdhi.ukPhone – +44 0788 747 4571Direct E-mail – uk@cdhi.orgMailing Address – CDH International, 77 Victoria Street, Box 135 London SW1H 0HW, UK Donate here – https://cdhawarenessshop.org.uk/products/donate-to-cdh-research CDHi UK on Social …
Featured cherub of the week is CDH survivor Hugo Kesek, the son of Matthew and Jessica Kesek and twin brother to Theo. Matthew and Jessica are CDH International’s United Kingdom Ambassadors. Matthew and Jessica had this to share about Hugo: “Our twin boys Hugo and Theo were born on 15 March 2018. Around the 16th …
CDH International was not the first Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia charity – that was Stichting Hernia Diafragmatica in the Netherlands who unfortunately closed down a few years ago. CDH International isn’t even the first name of our charity. It was founded as “CHERUBS – The Association of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Research, Advocacy and Support” in 1995 …
Featured CDH International’s United Kingdom Ambassador is Jacqui Taylor-Jackson. Jacqui is a CDH survivor. I was born with undiagnosed CDH in the 1960s, and my parents were told one day after my birth that I had a 50/50 chance of surviving an operation to repair the hernia. There were no synthetic patches then, so the surgeons had to …
