The giving keeps growing - Hyundai Help for Kids hits $14 million milestone.

Australians are, of course, by nature, incredibly giving people. The World Giving Index regularly puts the world’s only island continent in the top 10 out of the 119 countries it ranks, with as many as three in five Australians regularly donating to charity.

Generously, Aussies believe that joy comes from sharing your riches with others, and that’s the touchstone of what Hyundai Help for Kids is all about. This incredible initiative was established in 2014, and it has now contributed over $14.3 million* to help more than 100,000 children in need, and to support their families as well.

It’s hard to grasp the scale of 100,000 children being helped by this Hyundai-backed initiative, but if you could get all those kids in one place at one time, they would easily fill the Melbourne Cricket Ground. And make a hell of a noise while doing so.

Every time a Hyundai is sold in Australia the Dealer who sold it makes a contribution to Hyundai Help for Kids, and that amount is matched by Hyundai Motor Company Australia. Over those past 11 years, Hyundai Australia - with the help of its tireless and generous Dealers - has sold more than 880,000 vehicles.

In total, Dealers have donated almost $7 million to the cause - or to many causes in fact - and that’s been matched by another $7 million from HMCA.

But an achievement like this is about more than just money, although that much money obviously goes a long way. It’s also about effort, and it’s about people giving up their time to help these vital causes, and Hyundai Staff and Dealers have been a huge part of that.

In the past year alone, Hyundai Staff and Dealers have engaged in a total of 146 individual volunteering efforts, while 29 partner events were also supported by volunteers from the business. On average, Hyundai volunteers engaged in a partner event every 13 days. That’s someone turning up, willingly giving their time to help, time and time again.

In total, company volunteers logged 552 hours - that’s 69 working days or 3.5 calendar months. That’s a whole lot of giving going on. Everyone who has helped Hyundai Help for Kids should feel rightly proud of the impact they’ve had.

Because of the work that these charities do, the work that Hyundai Help for Kids enables them to do isn’t just important, not just vital, it’s special. It changes lives. It can even, quite literally, make dreams come true.

Almost 4000 children with critical illnesses have seen their wishes come true, thanks to the partnership between Make-A-Wish Australia and Hyundai Help for Kids over the past 11 years.

And tens of thousands more children's faces have been brightened with smiles by the Clown Doctors. On top of that, thanks to a partnership with Kickstart for Kids, Hyundai Help for Kids has helped contribute towards the weekly Breakfast in Schools program, which serves 60,000 breakfasts to children each week across 360 schools in South Australia.