Ronald Mcdonald House: Keeping A Family Away From Home

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Many families travel very far from home and spend many weeks or months to get treatment for their seriously ill or injured children that is a very long time to be away or to keep a family apart from one another. A Ronald McDonald House is a “home-away-from-home” for families so that they can stay together with their hospitalized child at a minimum cost or for free.

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