SAN DIEGO — On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m., CBS 8 will hold a 14-hour "Working Fur Kids" Giveathon, encouraging donations from the community to help raise much-needed funds to launch a Resident Canine Therapy Program to help children through extremely difficult challenges.
Watch live coverage all day starting at 5 a.m. on CBS 8 or CBS8+ to find out more about the program and hear from guests. Volunteers will be at the station answering phones for donations.
The Working Fur Kids Giveathon on June 5, 2024, will help bring joy, comfort and companionship to local kids braving illness by helping build a Resident Canine Therapy Program at Rady Children’s. Through this program, certified therapists and expertly trained dogs will soothe, motivate and support young patients—improving their experiences and outcomes.
Despite being at the forefront of pediatric medicine, our children’s hospital currently lacks such a program, and CBS 8 aims to bridge this gap with your help! By making a monetary donation to “Working Fur Kids” we will raise the funding needed to kickstart this essential program that will mean so much to so many.
Working Fur Kids is an effort to help raise funds in collaboration with the public, to start a Resident Canine Therapy Program at Rady Children’s here in San Diego. Please consider making a monetary donation to kickstart this essential program that will help ease the pain and suffering of children who are patients at Rady Children’s Hospital, California’s largest non-profit children’s hospital.
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Thank you to the sponsors of CBS 8’s Working Fur Kids: SDCCU, Bath Fitter, and The Super Dentists.
WATCH: Help Rady Children's launch a professional canine therapy program
