HealthyKids International is a strategic investment in the health care of the world’s most vulnerable children. Our fundraising initiatives include:

Fellowship Program

• The Fellowship Program offers training to leading paediatricians from developing countries, comprising of an intensive medical and leadership program at Toronto’s world-renowned Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), and four years of support when they return home. Since June 2008, the program has welcomed five Indian Fellows, and one from both Guyana and Rwanda. This year, we are expecting three additional Fellows from Rwanda, Kenya and Sudan. Leaders in health care in their own countries, these doctors are gaining more in-depth understanding about disease, the skills to work with modern technologies and new expertise in diagnostics, research techniques and patient management. The Fellows will then take these proficiencies back and use them to develop sustainable healthcare strategies in their home communities.

Global Child Health Program (GCHP)

• Lead by the Office of International Affairs at SickKids, the GCHP is a collection of international outreach activities that will give the selected countries the support to implement systemic changes in their healthcare delivery models. The GCHP aims to improve the paediatric care delivered in these countries by focusing on developing and training key healthcare workers, improving opportunities for health leaders and institutions to share knowledge and creating healthcare delivery systems that reach out to some of the most underserved communities.