Toronto's Ronald McDonald House is a 'home away from home' for out-of-town families whose children are receiving treatment for serious illness at Toronto hospitals (generally the Hospital for Sick Children, but others as well). Our goal is to provide an atmosphere for families and their children where the familiar routines of home life can continue as much as possible.

Teddies for Tragedies On a visit in 1998 to England we learned about a project called: Teddies for Tragedies The project was started by Womens Royal Voluntary Services workers (W.R.V.S.). They started to knit teddy bears, their first batch went to Sudan in 1985, to where the Emergency Care for Children (ECC) nurses were setting up a temporary orphanage in a refugee camp for 2, 000 children ...