The Janeway Children’s Hospital Foundation made a difficult decision to postpone its 2020 Janeway Children’s Miracle Network Telethon.
The health and safety of all those involved in the two day fundraising event is the Foundations priority.
Taking into consideration the concerns in the community surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic at this time, the Telethon will be delayed until the fall, the weekend of October 3 and 4th.
Once again NTV will broadcast from 3 locations – St. John’s, Grand Falls-Windsor and Corner Brook.
The Annual Telethon is held the last weekend in June.
“The health of our donors and volunteers is paramount to us,” says Lynn Sparkes, President and CEO of Janeway Foundation.
“In light of the uncharted territory in which we all find ourselves presently around COVID-19, we feel postponing the Telethon is a right move at this time.”
We hope our Newfoundland and Labrador population will once again rally their support for our children’s health care in this falls Telethon. The need is going away.
Last year’s Telethon raised $3.5 million for pediatric health care.
Courtesy of NTV news.