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We are the children’s family cancer charity that believes in bringing optimism and happiness to the lives of children and families affected by cancer through fun therapy. We believe laughter is the best medicine.

At CQ we are one big happy family. Our kids and their families, our staff and volunteers, and our partners, sponsors and donors are all part of the family. Together we help children and their families face the challenging days and celebrate good ones.

We believe in improving the quality of life through unrelenting optimism.

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Meet Giggle

Giggle is one of our fun therapy innovations. He is a remote controlled robot puppet that has been designed to spread laughter to children in oncology wards across the country. He can be found visiting major children's hospitals around Australia. If you want to see Giggle in action then check him out in CQ TV above!

Giggle rides a really cool tricycle and sits about one metre tall. He can talk and respond to a child in 'real-time' due to a little microphone implanted on him. Giggle's mouth is voice activated by a special chip that moves his mouth as the operator speaks. The best thing is that the operator is unseen, as far as 20 metres (line-of-sight) away from the robot. This means that the children on the ward can play and relate to Giggle, and then the magic happens!

If you're in hospital then keep an eye out for Giggle; you might catch him coming around the corner of your ward!

But if Giggle has a day off when you're there then how about hearing his favourite joke:

"Hey, the kid says, 'Doctor, how do I stop my nose from running?' and the doctor says, wait for it, 'Stick your foot out and trip it up!' Ha, ha!"

Chloe's best friend

Dear Giggle,

It's me, Chloe. I just wanted to say thank you so much for making me laugh when I was in hospital. I was so scared, and even cranky, but you made things a whole lot better for me. I've started the maintenance program, that's really cool. I talk about you all the time to mum and my brothers and sisters. Now I'm back at school I've even talked to my friends about you, but they don't really understand that you are like my best friend. But I'm ok with that now 'cause my mum explained it's normal for your friends to not understand how a puppet can really make us feel - good, happy, special - but what's really important is that I know you did Giggle, and you still make me smile when I think of you. I miss you a whole lot but I know you are out there making other kids with cancer feel just like I did when I was on treatment.

I love you Giggle,

Chloe


Life gets better with Giggle on the rounds

Read about Giggle getting lots of laughs in the Brisbane Royal Children's Hospital. You can also read his very own blog!!

 

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