{"id":3108,"date":"2022-12-16T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genesis-foundation.net\/blog\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:27:59","slug":"remembering-sameer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genesis-foundation.net\/blog\/remembering-sameer\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Sameer"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 20th<\/sup>, 1983 holds an important place in our hearts at the Foundation.<\/p>\n

While no day passes where we don\u2019t remember and bless Sameer, the second born son of our Founder Trustees, Prema and Jyoti Sagar, who succumbed to a Congenital Heart Defect within hours of his birth, this day always sends up many more blessings and wishes to his soul \u2013 a soul that probably came into this world only for a few hours \u2013 but who changed the lives of over 3800 children and their families, one life at a time. A soul that led to the birth of a children\u2019s heart foundation<\/strong> that has saved the lives of many children fighting a critical illness.<\/p>\n

Our Founder Trustees, Prema and Jyoti Sagar, with their first-born son, Rahul and daughter Simran<\/i><\/p>\n

Losing a child is one of the most tragic, terrible and painful experiences that anyone has to go through \u2013 an experience that you wish on no one. The tsunami of emotions that a loss like this unfolds is difficult to go through, let alone try to put down in words.<\/p>\n

When our Founder Trustees Prema and Jyoti, lost their second born son Sameer, to a Congenital Heart Defect, it was something that they had never imagined and something they were not prepared for. During the first trimester of the pregnancy, Prema was on bed rest. She did everything in her power to ensure nothing went wrong. However, sometimes much against everything we try, destiny has other plans. She delivered Sameer, who passed over within hours of his birth. Grieving and embracing their loss, they tried to move on as sometimes life just does not give you options.<\/p>\n

Our Founder Trustees Prema and Jyoti Sagar visiting children at our partner hospital in Chennai<\/i><\/p>\n

However, what set them apart was that in dealing with this personal loss, they embarked on a journey that would change the face of congenital heart defects in the country. They dreamt of setting up a children\u2019s heart foundation<\/strong> which would help parents provide the right help and help in collecting donations for children suffering from critical heart defects. Very few of us are blessed with that ability and motivation to rise over the personal distress and sorrow and reach out to people with who we have nothing do not with, they are not our friends, not our relatives, not our family members-the one thread that connects us with them is the fact that they are going through the same sorrow as you were at one point in time.<\/p>\n