How your ticket purchase helps

When you support SickKids, you become part of the SickKids family that includes patients, families, staff and volunteers. Your contributions make a difference in the lives of children every day. Here are a few examples of how contributions impacted research and care at the Hospital.

• The Labatt Family Heart Centre at SickKids performs more than 85 percent of all paediatric heart surgery in Ontario
• SickKids, can now identify a genetic cause for every 15 children out of 100 born with autism
• In 1989, scientists at SickKids discovered the gene for cystic fibrosis, triggering new research and new hope
• Our Emergency Department registers a child every 9 minutes and resuscitates a dying child every 15 hours
• SickKids sees a new cancer patient every day. Since 1985, mortality rates for children with childhood cancer have dropped by 50 percent