This Christmas you can help sick babies and children spending the festive season in hospital.

It’s simple. Encourage your staff and clients to purchase a special Christmas bauble and send a wish to our

state’s most vulnerable babies and children.

With your help we aim to have 30,000 Christmas wishes come back to the hospital, which cares for more than

30,000 children and babies each year. Your Christmas wish can help to fund the world class research and

lifesaving equipment required to make little miracles happen every day.

The concept is simple, time efficient and low cost, providing positive results for your organisation and the

Mater.

How it works

Purchase a Christmas wish bauble for $5, $10, $20 or $50 and hang it on your organisation’s Christmas tree – or

create your own wishing wall.

Wishes can be sent back to the hospital, where the money raised will be used to fund vital research and

treatments for sick kids.

Your wish can bring hope and valuable services to the large number of children who will be spending this

Christmas in hospital.

Benefits

The Christmas wish campaign presents a wonderful opportunity for you to participate in a program that engages

staff, clients and contacts alike.

Participation provides your organisation with a chance to build team morale and demonstrates that your

organisation cares about the community.

Businesses may choose to announce the total amount raised at their Christmas Party or end of year function.

We can provide a thank you video to play to staff.

The simple and effective program can be managed by reception staff.

Association

By partnering with the Mater, your organisation will be associated with an iconic and highly respected health

organisation that is a leader in the not-for-profit sector. Members of the community will be informed of your

philanthropic values and the importance you place on community engagement.

Changing Lives

The most important benefit is that your organisation will be helping Queensland’s sickest babies and their families

during their greatest time of need. Your participation will help sick kids to lead normal, healthy lives – a true

miracle.

About Mater Little Miracles

Mater Mothers’ Hospitals is the busiest maternity hospital in Australia and one in seven Queenslanders will be

born under our care.

It’s this care that gives our babies and children the best possible start to life and your support will absolutely

make miracles happen for these families.

Each year, the community funded Mater Little Miracles program impacts the 15 000 children cared for as

inpatients at Mater Children’s Hospital, the 120 000 children cared for as outpatients and the 32 000 children and

babies who receive emergency care in the Mater Children’s Emergency Department, which is the busiest in

Queensland.

The Mater Little Miracles program also supports our Neonatal Critical Care Unit (NCCU) where specialist staff care

for premature and seriously ill babies.

The investment in equipment, resources, education or medical research can make some very ‘big miracles’

happen for these babies and children who are our smallest and most vulnerable patients.

With your help…

Mater Foundation aims to raise $7 million by 2015 to fund approximately 25 research projects to help

children, mothers and babies.

These research advancements will improve medical practices throughout Australia and the world.

Mater researchers are finding the answers to some of our most significant medical challenges, such as

identifying congenital heart disease in babies before they are born; understanding what premature babies

need to thrive; developing specific diagnostic tests for autistic spectrum disorders, and finding the causes of

unexplained stillbirth.

It is only with your support for Mater Little Miracles that this research is possible.