 | About Hope on Wheels |
| Hope on Wheels Tour is the united effort of Hyundai dealers across the country to raise awareness about childhood cancer and celebrate the lives of the courageous children battling the disease. The symbol of the Hope on Wheels Tour is a white Hyundai Santa Fe crossover vehicle covered with colorful handprints representing childhood cancer patients from all over the country. At the end of 2010, Hyundai Hope on Wheels will have donated more than $23 million to children's hospitals nationwide to help kids fight cancer. Every time a new Hyundai vehicle is sold in the U.S., $5 is donated to Hope on Wheels. |
| Its Beginnings |
| What began in 1998 as a local initiative supported by New England-area Hyundai dealers to raise funds for the Jimmy Fund at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has evolved into Hyundai Hope on Wheels, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which is supported nationwide by all of Hyundai's 780 dealers and Hyundai Motor America. |
| Unified by a Common Goal |
| The Hope on Wheels Tour is the united effort of Hyundai dealers across the country to raise awareness about childhood cancer and celebrate the lives of the courageous children battling the disease. This summer, the Hope on Wheels Tour will travel to 42 children's hospitals across the country and donate more than $2 million to support further training and research for doctors involved in childhood cancer research, making it the largest single year of donations in the organization's history. |
| The Handprint |
| Why handprints? Because there's nothing more personal than a handprint - and the goal of the Hope on Wheels Tour is to share the personal triumphs of each of these kids with other children and their families across the country. Whether it's completing a round of chemo, celebrating a beautiful new head of hair or catching a fly ball, one pediatric cancer patient's milestone can be another's symbol of hope. |
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