Time Danced:
4240minutes
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
Jin Kim
$106
Kris Coles
$106
Lola Arnold
$106
Matched By Generous Donors
$106
Lockout Locksmiths
$106
Matched By Generous Donors
$105
Kylie And Derek Mayes
Well done Charli. Very proud of your efforts!
$100
Jason Day
Well done Ilana
$100
Matched By Generous Donors
$80
Paes Family
Slay!
$80
Laurent Vandenabeele
$68
Meg Torres
$65
Tayz And Wardie
Dance like no one's watching J Ponk
$65
Hannah
brilliant
$65
Bree Thompson
So proud of the team for continuing to help this amazing cause xx
$65
Keiryn Hodak
$65
John Lim
Good work Ruby!
$65
Roxanne Kitchener
Love the dance moves
$65
Matched By Generous Donors
$65
Vicki Day
Great work Ilana
$65
Anonymous
Hi Ilana - proud of you
$65
Alfio Cavallaro
❤️
$65
Ryan, Tracey, Zoey And Elly
Well done Ilana. Proud of you. Great cause xx
$65
Sheeling
Well done Ruby!! Keep it up
$65
Emma P
Proud of you Ruby, always and forever!!!
$65
Matched By Generous Donors
$63
Enzo Aguas
$60
Lukas Vandenabeele
coucou voilà un peux d’argent pour t’aider pour ton galat j’espère que tu t’amuses bien la bas et que tu profite
$54
Sam Hayward
$54
Jacinda Morris
Keep dancing till you can’t no more Love from Jacinda xx
$54
Claudia C
♥️♥️♥️
$50
Anonymous
$49
Anastasia Mcneil
$49
Tori Giles
You go girl !
$44
Matthew Shepherd
$37
Chelsea Ashwood
🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
$33
André Ferreira
Love your work cap 👏
$33
Ruby Ko
$33
Cheryl Mead
Good work Charlotte
$33
Emily Vanovac
$33
Lilly T
Thank you for helping sick kids 🩷
$33
Renee Hodge
Great initiative, to be part of, dance your heart away 💓
$33
Melissa Mclean
Fantastic Charity ❤️
$33
Karen Forster
Well done, I'm so proud of you sweetheart! ❤️
$33
Ilana Day
$33
Bingus
GO PHYU KEEP DOING WHAT YOURE DOING
$33
Anonymous
$30
Sophie Bordeau
Enjoy !! 😀
$30
Raewon Chung
You’re too kind 꼬봉 You will be my 꼬봉
$28
Tiarne Tighe
You’re slaying the day! Very proud x
$28
Matched By Generous Donors
$28
Claudia
Proud of you! Go girl!
$25
Will Barnard-richardson
$23
Will Tamblyn
$23
Kayla Whitehall
$23
Georgia Biscaya
So proud of you paes xx
$23
Matched By Generous Donors
$23
Bruno
Fantastic work! 🐶
$23
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$23
Lesley Marshall
$23
Michaela Mayes
Very proud of you !! Dancing for such a great cause
$23
Elise Aguas
$23
Charlotte Mayes
$23
Akeira O’brien
$23
Anonymous
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
$23
Matched By Generous Donors
$23
Jasmine Gilligan
$23
Ashley Hodge
Always going to support you and this great initiative. Go girls!
$23
Charlotte Nelson
Go Ilana
$23
Matched By Generous Donors
$23
Thomas Keech
Woot woot!!!
$23
Olivia Hudson
$22
Barnes Family
Go Talia!!! 🌈🎉
$20
Mel Preston
$20
Ella Robinson
$17
Elise Aguas
$17
Elyse
amazing!! love that ur involved with charity work ‼️💕💕
$17
Sonya Kalachian
$12
Zoe Kane
$12
James Costello
Keep dancing my dancing queen
$12
Sophie Hensler
$12
Talia Slootweg
$12
Hannah
Go Ruby!!!
$12
Anna
$12
Anonymous
$12
Matched By Generous Donors
$12
Mia-rose Lombardo
GO GIRL!
$12
Anonymous
Dance away!
$12
Maddy Cowdery
Go girl 💃💃🪩🪩❤️
$12
Emma Rudkin
$12
Kiana Chiu
So proud, keep dancing 💃
$12
Matched By Generous Donors
$12
Millie
$6
Halle Masters
keep dancing queen 👑
$6
Matched By Generous Donors
$6
Emma Ngu
GO BHADDIE
$6
Sabrina Dee
proud of you lola 🫶
Our Team Members
chloe papon
$170
Jorja Paes
$464
Talia Slootweg
$229
Elise Aguas
$360
Phyu Win
$33
Charlotte Mayes
$431
Ilana Day
$639
Ella Robinson
$504
Ruby Ko
$548
Lola Arnold
$258
Anastasia McNeil
$49
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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