Tuesday 25 April 2017

100K Miracle Flights for Kids and Counting

What Miracle Flights for Kids provides an absolutely necessary service to families of sick children. And there are a lot of them; based statistics, approximately 30 million Americans have some sort of a rare disease that either shortens their lives or otherwise negatively affects their life in some way. More troubling is that about half of these ill Americans are children and a great many won’t live to see their fifth birthday.

Since they began operation in 1985, Miracle Flights for Kids has grown into one of largest and most significant nonprofit health and welfare flight organizations in the country. Over that time, the organization has provided flights to more than 100,000 sick children and their families. In all, those flights have thus far covered more than 55 million miles.

Miracle Flights for Kids has provided that many families of sick children with the financial assistance they needed in order to obtain the medical flights that helped to make their seriously ill children feel better. Thanks to the help they receive from Miracle Flights for Kids, a great many many children have been able to see the medical experts who are capable of providing them with the life-altering or life-saving medical care they needed. That help often came in the form of follow-up treatments or even second opinions; whatever they needed to live a longer and healthier life. That means a lot to thousands of families. Miracle Flights for Kids has been able to put families at ease and to make sure that a lack of money was no barrier to helping their child get well.