Charity

Funds raised from Entoure events will be directed to the Day of Difference Foundation, a health promotion charity established by the parents of Sophie Delezio. All donations greater than A$2 are tax deductible.

  

Day of Difference Foundation

On a fateful day in December 2003, the lives of Ron Delezio and Carolyn Martin were changed forever as a result of a terrible accident that left their two-year-old daughter Sophie with horrific burns to 85% of her tiny body. 

Rather than succumbing to devastation, Sophie and her family have demonstrated the resilience of the human spirit; they have become catalysts for change through the Day of Difference Foundation, a charity dedicated to helping save the lives of the most seriously ill and injured children in our community.

In three short years, the Day of Difference Foundation Wish List project has raised millions of dollars for critical life-saving medical equipment and operating theatres for the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children’s Hospital.

The funds raised for music and play therapists have helped give children in hospital the courage to cope with their pain, the opportunity to laugh and to forget their illnesses, if only for a while.

Funding for burns and skin cultivation research – an area in which Australia excels – has made a significant contribution to the work of the Skin Cell Laboratory at Concord Hospital.

The Acceptance Day walk is a celebration of ‘difference’ in our community and a way in which Day of Difference can promote the uniqueness of all individuals and remind the community of the alienation that people with difference can feel.

Support of Burns Camps run by the Burns Support Foundation at Westmead has helped people with burn injuries to heal, physically and emotionally, and enabled families to share their experiences and receive counseling and moral support.

Your Support Makes a Difference

Your support of the Day of Difference Foundation enables continuation of these life-changing initiatives, but, together with Entoure, the Day of Difference is also raising funds for two specific projects:

State-of-the-art audiovisual equipment for the new Paediatric Simulation Centre at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Treating a critically ill child requires skills acquired on the job. Unfortunately, the stakes are too high and patients too precious for such experience to come during critical-care situations. Thus this groundbreaking facility replicates real-life emergencies and provides medical staff with priceless hands-on experience. Captured audiovisual information will enable learning, collaborative innovation and research, not only around Australia, but worldwide. When parents hand a sick child to a medical professional, they are counting on a miracle. Your support will ensure that a miracle is not left to chance.

Clown Doctors, through their much-loved Clown Rounds, bring doses of fun, laughter and encouragement to sick children and their families in hospital, from intensive care and the emergency ward to lifts and foyers. Their antics can help lift anxiety, renew hope, make pain and suffering a little more bearable and make recovery a reality.