Each year, CHKD provides high-quality medical care to more than 250,000 local children. And CHKD's experts are very worried about the alarming rates of childhood obesity in this community. Lack of exercise plays a big role in childhood obesity, but the RunWalk for the Kids can help in two ways. First, all the funds raised by the event will go to support CHKD and its special programs for children. And second, children and families are encouraged to participate in the RunWalk together. We even have a special family rate along with Hampton Road’s first Children's Marathon training program to help young athletes prepare for the big day.

Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters is the only facility of its kind in Virginia, serving the medical and surgical needs of children throughout greater Hampton Roads, the Eastern Shore of Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. The not-for-profit hospital was founded in 1961 by the Norfolk City Union of The King's Daughters. Today, CHKD provides care to approximately 250,000 children each year as inpatients and outpatients, addressing routine and complex illnesses, injuries and chronic conditions.

advocacy. A not-for-profit organization with approximately 1,000 members throughout Hampton Roads, The King's Daughters donated their largest ever gift to CHKD in 2006 of $850,000. In recent years, these funds have been used to purchase a highly-sophisticated pediatric ambulance that brings children from all over the region to CHKD, ventilators for the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, medical cribs for use throughout the hospital and a high-tech therapy pool for use in physical therapy and rehabilitation. The organization also supports to important initiatives on an ongoing basis: the hospital's child abuse and nursing scholarship programs.