When Sonia Rosso’s daughter was five she went to the Royal Children’s Hospital for what was supposed to be a routine day procedure.

It is a magic team that can take a diagnosis for heartbreak and turn it into a prescription for hope.

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Emergency Department (ED) is one of the busiest in the State, treating up to 300 patients on any given day.

Introducing the face of the 2019 Good Friday Appeal.

The RCH is home to the Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory, a state-of-the-art facility for the assessment and analysis of walking disorders in children.

While the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is uncertain, there is no doubt about the goodwill of the namesake organisation in Melbourne.

Volunteering runs in the Tyrrell family, who have been volunteering in the money counting room at the Good Friday Appeal for more than 50 years.

Leon celebrates 65 years of volunteering

Thanks to funding from the Good Friday Appeal, the RCH was the first paediatric hospital in Australia to have a machine enables surgeons to perform MRI scans during brain surgery.

At any one time across the RCH, 15% of patients are receiving nutrition intravenously.