About 500 University of Nebraska students participated in a 12-hour dance marathon in Lincoln Friday night into Saturday morning that raised more than $35,000 for Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
The event ran from 8 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday. Proceeds will help the hospital’s Child-Life Program and Rainbow House.
“Child-Life Program just gives different opportunities for the kids while they’re staying at the hospital, such as play opportunities, distractions from painful procedures and then the Rainbow House is great, they give families who have come in from out of state or out of the region a nice place to stay for the long-term while their child receives long-term care,” says hospital public relations director Eric Hamilton.
The hospital reports treating 250,000 children in 2008.