One weekend a year, the whole of Western Australia goes into fundraising mode...and I'm talking the WHOLE state. This year on the weekend of the 19th and 20th of October was our annual telethon which is a fundraising weekend raising money for the Telethon Institute and our state children's hospital - Princess Margaret Children's Hospital. The weekend is all about sick kids and raising as much money as possible to help pay for their treatment and the research that goes into prevent illness. It's amazing.
Channel 7 shuts down for 26 hours and instead broadcasts out of the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, where for 26 hours there is a celebrity panel and live local, interstate and international entertainment.
Growing up as a dancer, I did my fair share of performances on telethon. The atmosphere in the PCEC is great, everyone's excited and motivated and there is just a sense of giving everywhere you turn. This year a new fundraising record was broken, and the state of Western Australia managed to raise over $20 million for this amazing cause. This weekend makes me so proud to be a West Aussie!
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