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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.
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Aunty Hay
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Dick Smith
$520
Anonymous
Your love for dance is inspiring! Looking forward seeing you do what you love.
$495
Anonymous
To a wonderful creative artist who displays movement and expression with such beauty. Not only on the outside but inside too! Committed to your craft and bringing joy to others! 🤗 You will go a long way! ❤️🖤💛
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G&p
Great work Emily enjoy the dance marathon
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
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Fna
Well done Artemis. F.
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Annie
Fantastic! Xxx
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Jackie And Don Rowe
Keep on dancing Keira. Such a wonderful cause!
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Christian Curkovic
Good job! Go Soph 🙌
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Chris Twyford
$116
Mael Mitterrand
$116
Mum Xx
$116
Pip Smith
Good on you Charlie
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Nicolas Soteri
Go Maddie, dancing always comes from the heart. This will be a great achievement
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Anonymous
$106
Dan H
$106
Jennifer Brown
$96
Caroline Watts
Love Nanny x
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Denise Mamouzelos
$65
Lynda Edwards
Congratulations Sophie for doing this to support sick kids. So proud 🌹.
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Garry Diakos
All the best
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Valerie Smith/dunn
Thank Sofia and your twinkle toes friends. You are all so thoughtful and will be very much appreciated. Mismith
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Cassandra Robinson
Great job team DNA
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Rainee Lantry
Love that you guys are doing this! Amazing job.
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Kirsty Edwards
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Lauren Dawes
Amazing organization. Congratulations on making a differance gorgeous girl. You are so beautiful xx
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Sara Moore
Amazing work Charlie and DNA Inspired to start our own fundraiser too
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Catherine Tran
Well done Sofia. Good luck with the dance and hope you raise a lot of money to help those sick kids, such a great cause darling. Best wishes, Catherine xoxo
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Catherinr Mcveigh
Good luck Madeleine. Such a great cause. Love Catherine McV xx
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Tracey And Robert
Love Tracey and Robert
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Tass K
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Greg Teagle
Best wishes Maddie
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Agrita Cliff
Keep dancing to inspire others!
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Tass K
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Paula Clark
Happy dancing!! x
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Aunty Fifi
Wonderful cause Kiki
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Vanessa Scammell
$54
Sue Band
Well done precious girl!
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Mali Clark
$54
Tarini Chadha
From Tarini and Navid
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Karen
Good luck with reaching your target gorgeous girl!
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
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Stretton Family
Brilliant work, Emily 🥰
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Cristina Kennett
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Jill Crawford
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Maxwell Family
Great stuff Em! Keep it up!
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Milan And Cathy
Good luck Maddie
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Sean M
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Anonymous
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Grace Cairns
Love this! Good luck 🤍
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Jo Vandeleur
A wonderful cause. Dance with joy Miss Em!
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Mel
Thank you Artemis! My best friend Beccie used to stay at the first Ronald McDonald House in Sydney when we were teenagers. She was a wonderful horsewoman and enjoyed staying in what had been the old horse stables, which had been converted into a lovely cheerful cottage. Sadly, my beautiful, brave Beccie did not survive her cancer and my heart broke when she passed away at the age of 15. I have so many precious memories of happy hours giggling and gossiping with her at RMH in Camperdown in the months and weeks before she left us… This is a wonderful charity and I’m thrilled to donate, but I especially love that your beautiful dancing is helping to support this very special cause. Thank you, thank you thank you for helping continue Ronald McDonald House! Love from Mel… and Beccie xxx
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Tony Nico
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Robert Harris
Love Tracey and Robert
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Nick Coplin
Great cause, Maddie. Good luck with your fund raising efforts.🤞
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Belinda Macleod
Well danced. Good luck.
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Kellie Pankhurst
Good on you Charlie 🩷
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Cin
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Anonymous
Awesome Emily!
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Tina Pickworth
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Helen Lamont
Well done madeleine! Great cause X
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Bronte Church
Great cause, so proud of you 🩰 ✨🫶🏼
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Jenny Hamilton
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Amy.m
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Andrew Simos
Well done Maddie and good luck.
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Blake Crawford
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Jen Zammit
Hi Maddie good luck Ray and Jen xx
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Anonymous
Good for you Sofia We have had personal family experience with it
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Lisa Konstantakos
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Jacqueline Dawes
Great course to be part of darling. Very proud of you😘
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Maddie F
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Georgia Theofanopoulos
Great job Maddie. What a great cause xx
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Peter Marzullo
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Anonymous
You’re an amazing dancer, and you’re now doing amazing things by helping others congratulations 🩷
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Annabelle Woodhouse
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Sassy
🤍🤍
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Jess Hamill
$12
Aadit Seth
no worries clarks happy to help x
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21b
Great cause!
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Eva Mcgimpset
$6
Simone Carroll
yay isla love you, so happy your doing this 💖
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Arabella Brandon
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Lewis Nicholson
Love you xx
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Scarlett V
You’re amazing Isla !
Our Team Members
Sofia H
$736
Charlie B
$2,360
Artemis D
$916
Isla C
$166
Cassandra Robinson
Holly Robinson
$85
Emily T
$503
Maddie K
$1,262
Keira R
$240
Madeleine M
$408
Adrianne B
Imogen Z
$495
Isla C
$298
Sophie C
$313
Luke A
$50
Tallulah C
$54
Anna S
India-Rose M
Sofia H
$736
Emily T
$503
Imogen Z
$495
Madeleine M
$408
Sophie C
$313
Isla C
$298
Keira R
$240
Isla C
$166
Holly Robinson
$85
Tallulah C
$54
Luke A
$50
Cassandra Robinson
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Adrianne B
$0
Anna S
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India-Rose M
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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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