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| Bunkek Song holds her 3-year-old brother, heart patient Bunlak Song, in the Cambodian New Year Parade in Long Beach on Saturday. (Jeff Gritchen / Press-Telegram) |
04/21/2011
By Greg Mellen, Staff writer
Long Beach Press Telegram
Tickets for Saturday's banquet are $35, or $25 for students with valid identification. Tables for 10 are available at $300. For tickets and information, contact heartswb.org@gmail.com, or call Peter Chhun at 818-640-6191.
LONG BEACH - The story of Bunlak Song, a boy abandoned at birth by his homeless mother in Cambodia, has touched many hearts.
Now, a local nonprofit is seeking help to save the heart of the impoverished child who suffers from a severe heart defect.
Hearts Without Boundaries is holding a fundraising dinner Saturday at the Grand Paradise Restaurant, 1350 E. Anaheim St., to help raise funds to help the child.
The local charity has already helped three Cambodian children in poverty receive life-extending open-heart surgeries and is hoping Bunlak will be its fourth.
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