Time Danced:
210minutes
I'm dancing to make a difference for sick kids!
When a child is injured, or diagnosed with a serious illness, it affects the whole family. Lives can be turned upside down, and it puts families under enormous pressure. For many families, it can feel like it’s impossible to hold it together.
That’s why I’m joining Ronald McDonald House to Dance for Sick Kids this year.
I’ll be making a move every day for 7 days, to raise money that will help families stay in a home-away-from-home, access emotional and financial support, and more. From day one in the hospital and for as long as it takes, your help ensures that families don’t have to navigate the challenges of illness or injury alone.
Please support me by making a tax-deductible donation to my challenge. Your generosity will make sure that Ronald McDonald House can support even more families with a seriously ill or injured child when they need it most.
MY IMPACT
So far, this year I have provided:
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Nights for sick kids and their families
43
Hot meals from the family kitchen
41
School lessons for sick kids
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My Dance Diary
An important PS.
Sunday 17th May I started my fundraising goal at $160... And changed it as you each donated! Watching your donations come in touched me in ways you my family and friends, may have a sense of. This aspect of the week has been huge for me. The impact of knowing that you were enjoying my videos was/is indescribable. Coming out from my sister's bedside to dance, feeling your support for this fundraiser and reading your responses to my dances is growing me in new ways. Thank you for dancing for love with me in all the ways you have this week and do already in our life. Share
An incomplete post that for some reason I can't delete - hah and sorry!!
Sunday 17th May I started out aiming for just over $160.00 !!!! Oh my goodness... I kept raising my goal as you increased your donations. Way beyond what I thought possible.... Your donations have also touched me in ways as my family and friends you may have a sense of. Love to each of you. Share
Final day of our dance for love fundraiser.
Sunday 17th May We're here at day 7 and today we dance for love for the last time in our team... Though we'll each keep dancing :)))) A few of us dance together weekly at 5RHYTHMS in Glebe and all of us have danced together in 5RHYTHMS workshops. Thank you thank you thank you to the stars and back, to unknown universes and back for your generous support - in all ways - during this week. You've danced with love for us.
A million thank yous
Wednesday 13th May Gosh, thank you each for your generous donations. I'm quietly overwhelmed and soooo delighted YOU'RE raising funds for sick children and their families. I'm doing the fun, easy bits, dancing my joy... And you're responding with $$$ as well as having a good appreciative laugh and a bop along with my dancing for love. I'm not a social media person sooooo only you, people in my close circle that I love and trust are seeing my crazy videos. Thank you again from me ... And my co-dancers. We're making a positive difference together, beyond what we imagined was possible. Love from me... And come dancing with me!!!Thanks to all the generous people who’ve donated to my challenge.
$106.12
Michael Richardson
$103.72
Daniel
$100
Julie
Proud of you xx💗
$65.39
Catherine Camden-pratt
$65.39
Reb Emerald
😀💃🤗😘❤️🧡🩷
$53.64
Marian Forwood
Good luck! A very worthy cause.
$44.71
Mara Isaksen
$33.87
Emma Simpson
Go Catherine…dancing with purpose ✨
$33.87
Sal Isaksen
I know if they saw you dancing they would feel the spirit of you and it would bring smiles to their faces. Dance well my darling friend and what a great cause XX
$33.87
Jessica Horsfall
$33.87
Anonymous
$33.87
Debbie Horsfall
Done. Happy dancing 💃
$33.87
Jane Isaksen
🩷❤️🧡💛💜💙🩵💚🖤🩶🤍🤎
$33
Sara Kuna
What a beautiful initiative. We dance and the world gets a whole lot nicer ❤️
$33
Sara Kuna
💃 😘 💕❤️🥰💫🪷
$23.50
Debbie Martin
How Your Donation Helps
A global research team* worked with Ronald McDonald House to evaluate the impact of our House Program on families around the world. The following is a summary of those findings**.
Access to the best care
Our House Program makes it possible for families who travel long distances, to access the top children’s hospitals around the world.
Stronger mental health
Having a child in hospital can trigger clinical anxiety in parents. Our Houses provide families with the emotional, mental and practical support to better manage their stress so that they can be more actively involved in the care of their children.
Financial peace of mind
Ongoing medical bills, travel, and accommodation costs are a huge source of stress for many families. Our Houses offer accommodation at no cost, close to hospitals, to alleviate some of the burden.
Parents sleep better
Parents who sleep at one of our Houses have a better night’s rest than those that sleep at their child’s hospital bedside. This ensures they have the strength to support their child.
Children’s recovery
Having family and siblings close by, who are invested in a child’s care, can improve a hospitalised child’s recovery and treatment outcomes.
Positive hospital experience
Families who stay at a Ronald McDonald House find they have a more positive experience of hospital than those that stay elsewhere.
Families cope better
Having family together under one roof, including the support of experienced volunteers and other families, greatly improves a family’s ability to cope with having a child in hospital.
Safe, affordable alternative to hospital
Many high-risk pregnant women who are stable but need to be close to care, can now afford to stay close to care. This is also the case for parents who have a newborn in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Siblings cope better
Play is how children interact and make sense of the world. That’s why play areas are such an important part of our offering. They allow siblings to connect and cope more with the stress of a difficult situation.
* The global team of researchers was drawn from leading universities, including the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), George Washington University, the University of Chicago, as well as from top medical centres in Hong Kong; Sydney, Australia; the United Kingdom; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cincinnati, U.S.; and Toronto, Canada.
** Findings taken from Ronald McDonald House Impact Research – the name for a suite of studies on the impact of Ronald McDonald House around the world. The summaries provided here provide a snapshot of the findings from each of the key Ronald McDonald House Impact studies.
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