Last December 6th and 7th, people all across France rallied in favour of the 2019 Telethon, with donations totalling 74.5 million euros by the end of the television broadcast. Today, a few months later, we are very proud to announce the final result of our 2019 fundraising campaign: 87 026 262 euros.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to our donors, volunteers, and partners for their amazing loyalty and solidarity. Thank you for their precious generosity, which has given AFM-Telethon the means to multiply victories against the disease!
This victory was achieved after many struggles, from the discovery of the gene responsible for this disease to the research carried out in our Genethon laboratory! It is one of the results of a medical revolution that accelerates with the growing number of innovative treatments. Thanks to your exceptional mobilization, new clinical trials should start and ten or so others should develop further in our laboratories in 2020. All the projects we undertake, all the research we fund through the Telethon, are as many hopes for the families who await for treatment.
We know it now: overcoming disease is possible. Together, we can give children, and patients, the strength to heal! Patients and their families thank you a thousand times!
