Help us defeat national diseases with flowers
EuroFlorist and the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation is expanding their partnership this year, and give you the opportunity to support important research when sending flowers. By doing so you help us in the struggle against our time's most common national diseases.
Since 2007, EuroFlorist has been selling flowers to benefit heart-lung research. Throughout the year, you are now able to buy a bouquet from our special Heart-Lung flower collection. For every sold bouquet, we donate 10% of the total flowervalue to the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation.
Throughout 2009, our florists are looking forward to sell the popular heart pins and the goal is to sell 11 000, which will result in SEK 275 000 donated to important research.
Thank you for helping us defeat our national diseases -with flowers!
Check out our collection of bouquets here
About the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation
The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation is a charitable fundraising organisation. The fund was established in 1904 during the fight against tuberculosis (TB), and was then called Svenska Nationalföreningen mot Tuberkulos (the Swedish National Anti-tuberculosis Association). The fight against TB in Sweden was successful then and, now, the Heart-Lung Foundation is aiming to conquer the major national diseases of today: heart, lung and vascular diseases.
Hundreds of thousands of Swedes are affected by diseases of the heart, blood vessels and lungs. For example, twice as many people die from cardio-vascular diseases as do from cancer. The fact is that almost half of all deaths in Sweden are due to cardio-vascular disease. Unfortunately, many people die unnecessarily, since enigmas still remain for the research scientists to solve. More research and increased knowledge would allow more lives to be saved.
The problem is that both heart and lung research lack money. The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation, which pays for the majority of independent heart-lung research in Sweden, annually grants around SEK 120 million to research. That is just about 18 % of the funds applied for. In other words, there is a very great need for more money and every donation we receive is of real importance.
The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation raises funds and distributes money to heart, lung and vascular research, and provides information about heart-lung disease. The fund supports research into fields such as heart attack, heart failure, vascular spasm, genetic heart defects, stroke, asthma, COPD and emphysema.
The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation obtains no State subsidies and its activities are completely dependent on donations from private individuals and companies. The Plusgiro number for donations to the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation is: 90 91 92-7.