Having to quit work and move interstate is more change than most people have to deal with when becoming parents.
Home for little 14-month-old Ava Miller is the intensive care unit at Adelaide’s Women’s & Children’s Hospital. Home for her parents Rebecca and Shane is Ronald McDonald House Adelaide, nearby. Doctors can’t say when Ava might be released for good and it may never happen.
After smashing world records to fundraise for Ronald McDonald House, builder Mick had his own family crisis
When Mick Fabar, 35, first began breaking records to fundraise for a new Ronald McDonald House in his hometown of Orange, NSW, he could never have foreseen that his own family would soon be in need of the charity’s services.
“When my daughter Matilda was 10 weeks old she developed a condition referred to as Laryngomalacia (obstruction in the airway) and also a cyst in her throat, which made it extremely difficult for her to swallow and breathe,” Mick says. “It got to a critical stage where she had to be flown to Sydney.”
Australia’s McDonald’s Sydney Eisteddfod has launched the careers of many star performers
When McDonald’s licensee Ian Garton was a young boy he had the opportunity to thrill an eager audience by showing off his piano skills at a local eisteddfod. But, sadly, the result was not quite what he had hoped for. “I played the piano in a very rigid and poor manner,” Ian grins. “I absolutely destroyed this piece of music and, no, I didn’t win the eisteddfod.”
While his performance didn’t set the entertainment world alight, Ian now owns six McDonald’s restaurants in the Penrith region of NSW, and this has given him another opportunity to give back to the performing arts – via sponsorship.
Growing up helping people in need has given young Pippy Rushford a sense of just how lucky she is
Like most success stories, Ronald McDonald House began as a small idea that refused to stop growing
When a little girl with a serious health problem needed a reason to smile, it came in the form of Jason Coleman from So You Think You Can Dance
Stacey Pearse didn't have time to feel sad when a doctor said her young son Zac had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia
