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Your donations at work

Here is what your donations supported in October 2011

Sam, 12, living with epilepsy.

Patients with severe epilepsy benefit from attending a special classroom at SickKids that helps them transition into a regular school environment. SickKids treats about 1,200 children a year with epilepsy.

Brittney, 9, from Trinidad, treated for a congenital heart defect.

Since 1979, the Herbie Fund has helped close to 700 children from more than 100 developing countries receive life-saving surgery at SickKids. SickKids has treated 13 children so far this year alone from countries including Iraq, Guyana and Ethiopia.

 

Your donations make a profound difference in improving the health and well-being of children. With your help, last year, the Foundation provided $57.9 million to SickKids to support priorities in care, research and learning. In October 2011 alone, $7,146,749 was granted to the Hospital to bring us one step closer to reaching our vision: Healthier Children. A Better World.

Here are some of the projects this funding supported:

Research

• $64,471 to support research into Bardet-Biedl syndrome, a complex genetic disorder that affects many parts of the body, including the eyes.
• $70,936 to support Dr. Sergio Grinstein’s research into the human immune system.

Learning

• $27,826 to support the classroom at SickKids for children with epilepsy.
• $10,000 to provide professional development to staff in the Neonatal Program.

Care

• $506 to purchase rocking chairs for patients in the Cardiac Critical Care Unit at the Labatt Family Heart Centre.
• $621,502 to bring children from the around the world to SickKids for life-saving treatment, thanks to the Herbie Fund.

Read about Hunter and other children, whose lives you are changing because of your donations.