The CEO of the Children’s Hospital Foundation Lyndsey Rice says the work that the team at Madd put in to get this funding was remarkable.
“The energy and enthusiasm of George Samios and the wider Madd community is extraordinary,” she said.
Mrs Rice also went along to thank everyone who attended for “digging deep to help make a difference in the fight against childhood injury and illness.”
“Everything we do for sick and injured kids would not be possible without the generous support of partners like Madd,” she also said.
“These partners are the reason we are able to help sick kids just be kids.”
The founder of Madd — which stands for ‘make a difference daily’ — George Samios is thrilled with how much they were able to raise for the Children’s Hospital Foundation.
“Giving back has always been a huge part of Madd’s success and this year we wanted to go bigger by hosting our very own Gala Charity Ball.”
It was great for all involved to see his idea to go bigger succeed.
The Children’s Hospital Foundation invests in ground-breaking research as well as life saving equipment to provide high quality care to children and their families. They also provide entertainment services to patients and their families, to heighten their quality of life.
The generosity and compassion shown by George and the rest of the team at Madd mean the Children’s Hospital Foundation can keep doing their great work to make the hospital journey a little bit less scary for patients and families.
Mrs rice says that “what that means is that we can continue to fund some of Queensland’s sickest kids here at the foundation.”
“It means we can fund more life saving research, we can purchase some of the critical equipment that is needed over there at the hospital” and “we can provide more support to patients and families who are doing it tough,” she said.
Every single ticket purchase went directly to the Children’s Hospital Foundation to ensure to help them out in achieving one of their primary goals. Mrs Rice described this goal by saying, “we just want kids to be kids.”
It’s easy to see that so much of George’s love for helping others has come from the culture that he grew up in. Anyone who has met George or visited the Madd office would know how passionate George is of his Greek heritage, so it was only fitting the theme of the gala was ‘A Night In Greece.’
