Cards for a Brighter Future for BC's Kids
BC Children's Hospital is proud to present the 2025 Holiday Card Collection. When you order these attractive, high quality cards, you are not only expressing your holiday sentiments with style, you are also supporting brighter futures for BC's kids.
The Auxiliary to BC Children's Hospital supports the areas of greatest need at the hospital by funding vital programs and services essential to providing the absolute best in pediatric care to the children of British Columbia.
Volunteers of the Auxiliary to the BC Children's Hospital continue to serve our patients and families with a multitude of skills, dedication and compassion. Volunteers are involved in every level of a family's experience at the hospital.
Volunteers provide hands-on support to parents and children throughout the hospital in the outpatient clinics, inpatient wards and through support to siblings and family members. The number of clinics continues to increase and volunteers are increasingly needed to provide support to families who struggle with days filled with appointments.
Lola’s story
Lola is a friendly first grader who loves taekwondo, swimming and playing with her friends. She’s so full of energy, you’d never know a feisty kid like her had endured debilitating seizures since she was just 4 months old.
Lola’s epilepsy was caused by a malformation in the right hemisphere of her brain. For almost her entire life, she has relied on the support of experts, programs and services at BC Children’s Hospital to help her navigate her challenging condition.
Lola went through with the surgery, fiery hope in her family’s hearts. Then, post-surgery, another challenge began. Lola needed to re-learn how to use the left side of her body without the help of her brain’s right hemisphere.
But here’s the thing about Lola: she is mighty. Fast forward to today, and she isn’t just walking again, she's running. She’s attending school and watching movies. She still makes regular visits to BC Children’s for therapy sessions, and for checkups with her neurology team, but she continues to amaze those around her with her physical and neurodevelopmental progress. And best of all? She hasn’t had a single seizure since her operation.
With the support of experts at BC Children’s—and donors who support them—Lola is able to thrive.
Over time, Lola’s neurology team discovered her epilepsy was resistant to medication. But they believed in a better future for her, and put forward a transformational plan: Lola would receive a functional hemispherotomy. This major brain surgery would disconnect the left hemisphere of her brain from her right, putting an end to her seizures entirely.
