Time Danced:
745minutes
We're 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 puts families under enormous pressure. For many families, it can feel like it’s impossible to hold it together.
That’s why we’re joining Ronald McDonald House Charities to Dance for Sick Kids this year.
We’ll be dancing to make a difference 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 us by making a tax-deductible donation to our challenge. Your generosity will make sure that Ronald McDonald House Charities can support even more families with a seriously ill or injured child when they need it most.
Thanks to all the generous people who’ve donated to our challenge.
$116
Brian And Jeanine Fitzgerald
$106
Anonymous
$106
Rob Waldon
Great cause!
$100
Jan And Malcolm
Well done Sarah, such a good cause
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Brigitte T
$65
Justine Battistella
Well done Sarah that is so wonderful!
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Maurice Hunt
go girl
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Jarrod Brown
$65
Josh Bonora
$54
Liz Russell-pearce
Good luck Chick.
$54
Leeanne Callanan
Congratulations Sarah it’s great to help other children
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Jenny
$54
Jenny Cutting
$40
Terri And Hugo Du Preez
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Matthew Keamy
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Anonymous
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Kim Webber
Hi Sarah well done and keep dancing. Love Kim & Gavin x
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Luey
You are an inspiring dancer to all the little and big ones watching. Xxx
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Anonymous
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Silfiana Du Preez
you are a beautiful, gifted little dancer we are so proud of you love uncle matt and aunty silfi
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Glenn Royle
Keep up the fantastic effort. Hope you really enjoy your dancing.
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Lauren Bonora
$30
Leah Thacker
Well Done girls
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Edward Mumford
$28
Mikey Dynon
Happy birthday Lauren
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Bronwen Mccoy
$24
Aggie Kisza
Well Done Clara, keep dancing and supporting great Charity.
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Joshua
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Joshua Bonora
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Robert Bonora
Good to see young people raising Money for a Good Charity . Love Pop & Nanna
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Rachel Ardley
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Monique Sheppard
Well done Clara. We hope you have fun!
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Anne Buckingham
Good work Clara!
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Louise Yole
Well done 👏👏
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Bianca Dunbar
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Jen Penno
Well done Sarah, I hope you don’t get too tired.
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
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Ben Singleton
$12
Teresa Hamilton
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River L
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River L
Our Team Members
Bianca Dunbar
$98
Lauren Bonora
$269
Izabella Russell-Pearce
$105
Sarah H
$379
Clara B
$778
How Your Donation Helps
A global research team* worked with RMHC 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 RMHC Impact Research – the name for a suite of studies on the impact of RMHC 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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