What is Teleton?

Objectives

1. Promote national unity around our values.
2. Promote a culture of inclusion for people with disabilities.
3. Build and operate rehabilitation centers for disabled children.
4. Support the institutions working in the disability sector in Mexico through the Teleton Fund to Support Institutions (FAI)

The history of Teleton in Mexico

In December of 1978 in Chile, the TV host Mario Kreutzberger, "Don Francisco",  instituted the commitment to support people with disabilities, a project that remains until this day in many Latin American countries called Telethon.

The media came together to participate in an event that exceeded the boundaries of the world during 27 hours of broadcast, with only one aim, to provide assistance to children with disabilities.

On December 12th of 1997, Mexico took the initiative of "Don Francisco" and called for the first time to 70 media enterprises, showbiz personalities, different companies and the entire nation. This is how, through the love of every Mexican, Teleton was born, and since then, the sum of all wills makes possible to work hard in the rehabilitation of children and youth with disabilities.

About the Teleton Mexico Foundation

It is a foundation that respects and safeguards the dignity of the people and seeks to serve children with disabilities providing comprehensive rehabilitation to promote their full development and integration into society.

Through its project of national unity, Teleton achieves to call all of Mexico promoting values such as love, generosity and solidarity.

With its 15 Rehabilitation Centers and its Institute of Higher Education in Rehabilitation (ITESUR by its Spanish acronym) Teleton offers Mexico the world's largest private system for children's rehabilitation, with a capacity for more than 70 000 patients, under the slogan: "Love and science in the service of life."