This holiday season, you can give a gift that warms hearts twice, honoring someone special in your life while helping keep families close when their children need medical care most.
Through our Lights of Love campaign, making a tribute donation is a meaningful way to celebrate a family member, friend, neighbor, or coworker. When you make a gift in honor or memory of someone, Ronald McDonald House Charleston will send a personalized card directly to your recipient (or their family) to let them know a heartfelt gift was made in their name.
Why Your Support Matters
For families with critically ill children, a hospital stay isn’t just a matter of days, it’s often months of medical care, pivotal decisions, and intense anxiety.
Take the Gregg family, for example. Born with Hypoplastic Left Syndrome, a complex congenital heart defect, little Cymeian endured nine open-heart surgeries and countless complications. While he spent months awaiting a lifesaving heart transplant on a Berlin Heart, his mother, DyKetia, found a haven of rest and support at Ronald McDonald House Charleston.
Over the course of Cymeian’s medical journey, the Greggs stayed 538 nights at our House as he fought for every single milestone, until he finally received his new heart and went home.
As DyKetia shared:
“Ronald McDonald House is so much more than a place to stay; it is a place of comfort, support, and hope. When you’re going through something as difficult as having a critically ill child… you just need someone to see you. They don’t just ask what you need; they ask how your child is doing, remember our family, and surround us with selfless love when we need it most.”
How Lights of Love Works
- Make Your Gift: Make a donation online or by mail through our Lights of Love campaign.
- Dedicate Your Donation: Indicate who you would like to honor or remember (a friend, loved one, teacher, or colleague).
- We Send the Card: Our team will send a card directly to the recipient notifying them of your gift.
Your tribute gift provides hot meals, warm beds, and a supportive community so parents can stay steps away from their child’s bedside when every moment counts.