This holiday season, hope stays here. - Ronald McDonald House Charities Toronto

Every gift contributes directly to keeping families together and supporting children’s care.

*$167 stocks our pantry with staples for 2 days for 81 families

Families like Heidi and her three-year-old son Noah will spend the holidays far from home this year. Born with a rare and life-threatening kidney disease, Noah requires constant medical care, forcing his family to relocate hundreds of kilometres from their community.

At Ronald McDonald House Toronto, they’ve found stability, comfort, and the feeling of home during a medical crisis — support made possible by people like you.

Away from Home, But Not Without the Holiday Magic

For families navigating life-altering diagnoses, home becomes a concept rather than a place — something you carry in your bag, build on a borrowed shelf, or recreate with a pre-lit Christmas tree stored under a bed.

And that is the silent miracle of Ronald McDonald House Toronto: it gives families room to breathe, to rest, to stay together, and to reassemble the pieces of their lives while their children receive lifesaving care.

It gives them the ability to make traditions, even in a year when everything else feels impossible.

“It’s truly amazing,” Heidi says. “We try to make it as close to home as we can. And this place…it lets us do that.”

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