6 Powerful Ways Your Cure Kids Cancer Gift Changes Lives

What Is the Cure Kids Cancer Radiothon?

Every year, all of us here at Results-Townsquare Media in Sioux Falls take a couple of days to tell you about the amazing work at the Sanford Castle of Care and the fight against childhood cancer. It's the Cure Kids Cancer Radiothon, and this year it’s on September 25-26.

We also ask you to join us in supporting that work and the kids involved.

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How Your Donation Helps Families

It's one thing to ask for money, but where does that money go? I've made my donation, what does that donation do? What sort of help will my gift provide?

Your support helps the team at the Sanford Castle of Care buy specialized, state-of-the-art equipment for treating kids and advancing pediatric cancer research.

Your Cure Kids Cancer gift also helps the families of the kids battling cancer at The Castle with expenses not covered by insurance. It helps them with things like meals, mileage, and lodging. People from all over South Dakota and the region come to the Castle.

Donations also support special programs for the kids in treatment, like Child Life, Back to School, summer camps, and social work.

But if you're looking for some specifics, here are six ways that your Cure Kids Cancer donation helps the kids and families battling the disease.

6 Ways Your Cure Kids Cancer Donation Helps

1. Pediatric School Education Supervisor - An on-site teacher ensures patients don’t fall too far behind in school.
2. Children’s Social Work Support Direct Child and Family Assistance - Meals, mileage, and lodging for families during treatment at the Castle of Care.
3. Pediatric Chaplain Support - The Pediatric Chaplain helps support patients and families spiritually, no matter their religion.
4. Child Life Support Child Life Specialists - Child Life Support Child Life Specialists are professionals trained in medical play, showing patients what chemo and surgery looks like on stuffed toys, and teaching them about their illness in terms they understand.
5. Kangaroo Glider Recliner ($4,600 each) - You can help buy these recliners which support kangaroo care and improves the experience for parents and babies.
6. Centrella Smart Beds ($10,000 each) - These are hospital beds that are purposefully designed both for patient safety and patient satisfaction, and you can help buy one.