Tour de Kids has raised $2.6 million for a variety of children’s health and well being programs over the past seven years. The beneficiaries of the 2008 tour will be: Anaphylaxis Australia
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Anaphylaxis Australia
www.allergyfacts.org.au
Anaphylaxis Australia Inc (AAI) is dedicated to assisting children, families and carers in the management of severe allergy and the risk of anaphylaxis. AAI’s mission is to increase awareness of anaphylaxis through education, research and support.
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Bear Cottage
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Bear Cottage
Bear Cottage, located in beautiful Manly, is NSW’s only children’s hospice and an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. It offers paediatric palliative care for children with life limiting diseases. The young patients and their families are offered respite care for up to six weeks as well as end of life care for the child and on going bereavement assistance for the families after the death of a child.
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Canteen
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Canteen
CanTeen’s mission is to support, develop and empower young people living with cancer. They do this by providing an Australia-wide peer support network for 12-24 year-olds including Patients, Siblings & Offspring and Bereaved Siblings & Offspring. They provide Members with a place where they can simply be young people – away from the adult-dominated environment of hospitals and treatment regimes.
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Day of Difference
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Day of Difference Foundation
www.dayofdifference.org.au
Day of Difference Foundation is the paediatric charity founded in 2004, by the parents of Sophie Delezio. The Foundation is dedicated to helping save the lives of children who have suffered serious burns or other life threatening illness, trauma or injury. They raise funds for specialised medical treatment and research, rehabilitation, family support and community education.
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John McLean Foundation
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John McLean Foundation
The John McLean Foundation's mission is to inspire, motivate and enable physically challenged kids to chase their dreams and live life to the fullest. Through the provision of new wheelchairs, vehicle modifications, computers or musical instruments the John McLean Foundation are helping to improve the quality of life for young Australian's who experience paraplegia, quadriplegia, cerebral palsy or other similar conditions. | Royal Far West
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Royal Far West
Their vision is for “Healthy Country Children” and their purpose is to provide access to services, to enhance the health and well being of country children, that they cannot access in their local areas.
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Starlight
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Starlight Children's Foundation
www.starlight.org.au
Since 1988 Starlight has brightened the lives of seriously ill and hospitalised children, and their families throughout Australia, by delivering innovative programs that restore the fun, laughter and joy that serious illness takes away. Each year there are over 600,000 child admissions to hospitals across Australia with an increasing number of children spending extended periods recuperating in the home following hospital treatment. Currently Starlight reaches only ‘1 in 3’ of these children. Their goal is to give all seriously ill and hospitalised children and their families the opportunity to access and benefit from Starlight’s programs by 2010.
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Streetworx
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Streetworx
Streetworx has established programs to assist troubled, high risk children in the Bankstown and Macquarie Fields areas, providing motivational speaking, mentoring, true role models and using the tools: sport, music, dance and art. The mission of Streetworx is to positively transform communities – to reach out to the disadvantaged, the neglected, the hurting, the broken and the lost.
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