Thank you for visiting our team page! Every 15 minutes, a baby in this country is born with a congenital heart defect, making CHDs America's most common birth defect. Elijah was born with one of the most severe heart defects, called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). This condition, like other CHD's, has no cure!

The Congenital Heart Walk is dedicated to raising funds to support The Children's Heart Foundation's mission: to advance the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of CHDs by funding the most promising research. Your support means the world to us, becuase with your support of CHD research, you are also supporting our family. The bigger Elijah's support system and community, the better! As he grows up, we want him to know that he is loved just as he is, and that we are out for a better, brighter, and healthier future for him and for other kids like him.

Will you join us? By supporting our team or joining us in our walk, you're supporting research that will help save and improve the lives of babies born, and children and adults living, with CHDs. Thank you!

The Joksch Family

Andrea, Brian, Elijah and Isaac.