Bay Area nurse helps finance life-saving heart surgery for Ugandan children

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A San Mateo County woman who survived a rare form of cancer as a teen has made it her personal mission to help provide life-saving heart surgeries for children in Uganda.

SAN MATEO -- A San Mateo County woman has made it her personal mission to help provide life-saving heart surgeries for children in Uganda.

Billington was volunteering at a children's hospital in Uganda in 2016 when she met Patrick, a two-and- a-half-year-old boy she called Paty. Billington started the nonprofit, Paty's Project, in 2019. Since then, it has provided four heart surgeries for Ugandan children.Doctors performed three other surgeries in India through a partnership with the nonprofit, Healing the Children, in Wisconsin.

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