The Child Cancer Foundation -- a non-profit charity in New Zealand providing practical and emotional assistance for children with cancer, their families, and their health care providers -- operates solely from the support of its 22 branches scattered across the country. The foundation receives no funding from government agencies or other cancer support groups. So any bit of support they receive is a big deal.

Lately, the Child Cancer Foundation is making a big deal about Hyundai, the fast-growing vehicle brand supplying a range of SUVs and cars to the foundation. Five Hyundai Tucson SUVs and three Hyundai Getz will be donated, and the head of the Foundation will drive a Hyundai Sonata V6 sedan.

The Child Cancer Foundation provides support in the form of financial assistance, meals, transportation, accommodation, support groups, education scholarships, and access to holiday homes. It also contributes financially to research initiatives. The donated vehicles will help tremendously in the delivery of this support.

In 1998, Hyundai joined the fight against pediatric cancer. The Hope On Wheels tour, through the Jimmy Fund, have been helping kids fight cancer with corporate contributions of over $7 million to hospitals across the country. The Hope On Wheels national tour features a white Hyundai Tucson SUV covered with the colorful handprints of pediatric cancer patients from all over the country. Francesca, a 9-year-old, two-time cancer survivor, is the 2006 Hyundai Hope On Wheels Spokes-kid.

In 2003, Francesca was diagnosed with undifferentiated sarcoma, a form of bone cancer that affects three in 1 million children under the age of 14. Five months of chemotherapy, surgeries and then more chemotherapy followed. In 2004, Francesca was diagnosed with a more lethal type of cancer, secondary acute myeloid leukemia, with a cure rate of 10 percent or less in most patients. Francesca needed a bone marrow transplant, but none of her family members proved to be a donor match. Francesca's doctors at UC Davis found a match through a national search of donated umbilical cord tissue, and she received the transplant in March 2005. On March 22, 2006, Francesca celebrated her one-year anniversary in remission. When she grows up, Francesca wants to become a doctor so she can find a cure for cancer.