Time Danced:
1160minutes
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.
$166
Wintle Family
$116
Nana Kim
Go brax
$116
Matched By Generous Donors
$106
Silvana, Rosalie & Amira
$70
Young Talents Support
YTS Dream Fund is proud to support Dance for Sick Kids again through you Joshua! May all your dreams come true!
$63
Maria Malcolm
$63
Linda
Wonderful effort and a great cause - go Brax! Dance dance dance
$63
Ellie Tyrna
so proud of you salad 🥗 💗
$63
Sharon Tangye
$60
Young Talents Support
YTS Dream Fund is proud to support Dance for Sick Kids again through you Lara! May all your dreams come true!
$53
Anonymous
$53
Pop And Ouma
Good Luck Lara
$53
Matched By Generous Donors
$50
Grace Tione
You are amazing Brax love love love from Grace ❤️
$32
Julie Gleeson
Go Brax you have got this
$32
Anonymous
So proud 🥹 of you for dancing for kids that are sick. That’s a great effort Josh! Love Pa & Em
$31
Nancy Timpano
Go get ‘em Josh xxxx
$30
Grace Tione
Go Winter your the best love love love from Grace
$30
Patricia
Congratulations Josh you make us all proud . Go dance those boogie shoes and best of luck 💙
$26
Ouma
Good Luck Lara
$26
Pop
Good Luck Lara
$26
D.l
Well Done Josh 👌🫶
$24
Jane Parker
$21
Tracey Feleppa
$21
Nicholas Kokontis
Keep on going Winter! such an amazing cause you are a star ⭐️
$21
Glenys Penglase
Hugs Josh, from Aunty Glenys xx
$21
Erin
Keep shining Josh
$21
Anonymous
$16
Kiera Vincent
$16
Zara Tiny Miss Australia
You are amazing Winter! Soo proud of you xxx
$16
Tracey Gallagher And Taliah
Go Braxy girl you are amazing.
$11
Trish Ryan
Donated sweet hope you are doing great and nice that you are doing this for charity sweet 💕
$11
Winter Bell
$11
Ollie Ta
What an amazing thing to do Josh! Keep dancing shining 🌟!
$11
Grace Goodman
Go Winter! You are doing great girl!!
$11
Granny
So proud of you Joshua, love Granny 🩵
$11
Arabella
Can’t wait to see you Dance for sick kids Winter 😍❤️ Such a good cause 🥹
$11
Winter Bell
Great dancing ❤️❤️
$11
Winter Bell
Love watching you dance Brax xx
$10
Jax And Amanda
Really proud of you Joshua!!
$10
Anonymous
$6
Aneira Rowlands
Keep following those big Dreams Winter ❤️❤️ Can't wait to see what new dances you come up with for the next couple of days
$5
Samanta Cardona
I’m so proud of you my girl!Be going for 5 strong years and still doing mumma proud.❤️Love u my girl
$5
Ilah Kelly
Good job Winter 👯♀️
Our Team Members
Spideyshuffles
Brax W
$688
Joshua S
$337
Winter B
$110
Lara A
$340
Aneira R
$100
Lincoln W
Cruz W
Sacha W
Inayah H
Isabelle J
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.
I am part of Brax Crew team
Go Braxie we love u beautiful ,you are amazing xx love your whole family