Save a Kid's Life
A pro bono site for a children's cardiac surgery programme
Built and maintained free of charge for a Rotaract community initiative that funds life-saving heart surgery for children from indigent families in Sri Lanka.
saveakidslife.org
Congenital heart disease is one of the leading causes of infant mortality in Sri Lanka, and the surgery that corrects it is out of reach for most families who need it. Save a Kid's Life closes that gap: funded by the Rotary Club of Colombo West, it sends children from indigent families to Amrita Hospital in Kochi for world-class cardiac surgery, free of charge.
Webloom Labs built and continues to maintain the site at no cost. It is our community service work, and it is not billed.
What the site has to do
Three jobs, and the order matters:
- Explain the problem quickly to people who have never heard of CHD, without turning it into a medical lecture.
- Carry the stories — children like Tharindu, before and after surgery — because a single outcome persuades where a statistic does not.
- Take action. Referrals from families and clinicians who know a child with CHD, donation enquiries, and volunteers, all through one route rather than a maze.
The build
The first pass came out of a v0.dev scaffold, which we took over, restructured and hardened into something maintainable. The site runs on Next.js with an accessible Radix-based component layer, and Sanity for the content that actually changes — articles, gallery items and video — so the committee can publish updates and new patient stories without a developer in the loop.
A single form endpoint handles referrals, donations and general enquiries. next-sitemap generates the sitemap at build, and the site is indexed for the searches families and donors actually run.