The Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital of Saskatchewan has been given a $2million dollar donation thanks to the Thistledown Foundation.

Thistledown Foundation, a private charitable foundation established in late 2019 by Tobias Lütke and Fiona McKean, provided a $26 million investment in Canada’s 13 acute care children’s hospitals.

The money was gifted to recognize the immense impact the pandemic has had on Canadian children, youth and their families.

Co-founder Fiona McKean says, “Through this gift, our hope is that children across Canada will have the best possible care to enable them to feel better soon and get back to the important job of being kids.”

This gift coincides with National Child Day which is celebrated on November 20.