About Starlight
Lifting spirits daily
Most of us are physically healthy and able to enjoy and participate in many activities like sporting and cultural events, parties and family gatherings.Now imagine how different those experiences might be if you were challenged with a serious illness. You might be confined to a hospital bed, separated from friends and family. You might be slowed by crutches or a wheelchair. You might spend lonely nights with little to take your mind off the pain.
Starlight Children's Foundation tries to take away some of that pain.
Since 1989, Starlight Children's Foundation Canada has enhanced the lives of countless children and their families. By granting wishes, providing state-of-the-art Fun Centers for audiovisual entertainment in pediatric hospitals, as well as the Hospital Happenings program offering great parties, shows, activity kits and crafts to young patients across Canada, and the Great Escapes program inviting children and their families to unique monthly outings, over 21,000 children now benefit from the Foundation's services in Canada each month, with over 5,000 in Quebec. Services are provided for children with serious, chronic or life threatening illnesses, aged 4 - 18 years.
The Starlight Children's Foundation Canada has chapters in Montreal and Toronto, as well as expansion committees in Vancouver and Ottawa. The Starlight international headquarters are located in Los Angeles. Stephen Spielberg is President Emeritus of Starlight Children’s Foundation. With Starlight chapters worldwide, in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan and Canada, we brighten the lives of over 85,000 sick children every month.
