Family origins
Since the House opened in 1994, over 35,000 families from all over the country, and occasionally the Pacific, have called Ronald McDonald House Auckland their ‘home away from home’.
Last year, January to December 2008, we sheltered and supported:
- 9,366 resident family members of desperately sick children.
- 850 of these were outpatients receiving chemotherapy, radiation or waiting for or recovering from transplants.
- A total of 20,331 room nights (a 20% increase from 2007).
This equated to a whopping 71,000 beds made!
Here’s a breakdown of where our families came from (and why) in 2008:
This graph is also available as a PDF download.
