Ronald McDonald House

During the month of February, Team Believe is working on a special project and we are asking for your help. You may have heard about the Ronald McDonald House. It is a place where families can stay when their children are seriously ill or injured and need care at a hospital that is far from their home.

Since the Ronald McDonald House in Milwaukee opened in 1984, it has provided more than 40,000 family stays. The families who come to the Ronald McDonald house are from many countries around the world whose children are receiving medical care at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.

It costs the Ronald Mcdonald House about $90 a night for each family that stays there, but they don’t charge the families. The money comes from donations.

You are probably wondering how you can help. Well, little things make a big difference. You can help support the Ronald McDonald House by saving the little tabs you pull to open soda, soup or other aluminum cans and bringing them to school. Team Believe will take all of the tabs that are brought to school to the Ronald McDonald House. Then, the Ronald McDonald House takes the tabs to a recycling center where they get money for them. Every year, more than $10,000 is raised from this program.

Fun Facts
● Approximately one million pull tabs = 800 pounds
● Approximately 1,430 pull tabs = one pound
● Approximately 63,360 pull tabs = 1 mile

Please help us help the Ronald McDonald House by saving pull tabs and bringing them to school. There will be a container in the gym where all of the tabs can be placed.