Welcome: Wasan Fakhri (top left) and her daughter,
Tabarak, 4, chatted Thursday in Brownsburg with interpreter Mohammad
Nuseibeh (right) and Chevy Ferland, Jamestown. The Rotary Club's Gift
of Life program is aiding Tabarak. - ROBERT SCHEER / The Star
HOW TO HELP
Donations toward Tabarak Fakhri's medical care or other Gift of Life
efforts may be sent to Rotary District 6560, P.O. Box 42, Muncie, IN
47308. Note the phrase "Gift of Life" on the check.
Gift of Life Fall 2006
Tabarak Fakhri's native tongue is Arabic, but a stranger's comforting
gesture was easy for the 4-year-old to understand. "Get through
OK, little one," Chevy Ferland, Jamestown, told the Iraqi girl Thursday
after a Rotary Club luncheon in Brownsburg. "We'll be thinking and
pulling for you."
Tabarak -- one of two children to arrive earlier this week
in Indianapolis for life-saving heart surgery -- shyly smiled as she
clung to her mother.
