Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School accepted a donation of an AED (Automated External Defibrillator) from the Breanna Vergara Foundation, and with the help of the school’s Dads’ Club, the school will now offer the required training to all the teachers and staff on how to use the machine.
The Foundation was named after the 11-year-old Miami Lakes resident, who died of a rare heart condition after she collapsed during dance practice in 2014.
Her mother, Claudia Vergara, said her daughter died from pre-excitation Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a congenital heart defect that is curable when it is detected with an EKG.
The Foundation is pushing to make sure all kids who participate in sports and other physical activities in Miami Lakes have a free EKG at local hospitals to detect any heart conditions that can save their lives.
Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School is grateful for the AED and the foundation’s will to save kids’ lives.
“Our prayers and thanks go to the Vergara family for this potentially-life saving donation,” said OLL principal Ricardo Briz, who received the AED on behalf of the school.