Editing Telethon (section)

====Chile====
{{Main|Teletón (Chile)}}
Since 1978, the major Chilean television networks hold an annual telethon called '''''Teletón''''' to raise funds to help children with developmental disabilities (most commonly [[cerebral palsy]]) in Instituto de Rehabilitación Infantil ("Infant Rehabilitation Institute") centers. [[Mario Kreutzberger]], who is the symbol of "La Teletón" in Chile, has served as the telethon's host since its inception. The telethon is an event of national unity and is proportionally, the most widely watched and most donated telethon in the world, surpassing Australia's Telethon.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}

There is also a local telethon running, the ''Days for the Disabled Magellanic Children'' (''Jornadas por el Niño Impedido Magallánico''), to raise funds to help disabled children of the [[Magallanes Province|Magallanes]] and [[Última Esperanza Province|Última Esperanza]] provinces, in an effort led by the local [[Lions Club]]. The 2006 Days broadcast raised US$515,000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Club de Leones Cruz del Sur |url=https://leonescruzdelsur.cl/ |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=Club de Leones Cruz del Sur |language=es-CL |archive-date=2023-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330204623/https://leonescruzdelsur.cl/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Inicio |url=https://www.rehabilitamos.org/ |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=www.rehabilitamos.org |archive-date=2023-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213092742/https://rehabilitamos.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

During March 2010, a special telethon called ''Chile ayuda a Chile'' (''[[Chile helps Chile]]'') was broadcast to raise money to help those affected by a [[2010 Chile earthquake|devastating earthquake]] that struck the southern part of central [[Chile]] on February 27 of that year.<ref name="lun">{{cite web|url=http://www.lun.com/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?dt=2010-03-01&PaginaId=54&bodyid=0|date=March 1, 2010|publisher=[[Las Ultimas Noticias]]|title=Kreutzberger al rescate.|access-date=2010-03-02|language=es|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304081233/http://www.lun.com/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?dt=2010-03-01&PaginaId=54&bodyid=0|archive-date=March 4, 2010}}</ref> The aim was to raise [[Chilean peso|$]]15,000,000,000 Chilean Pesos for the construction of 30 thousand emergency homes in the disaster area. In the end, that amount tripled, having been gathered over 46 billion Chilean pesos ($90 million), the biggest amount of money collected from a Telethon in history.<ref name="final">{{cite web|url=http://www.latercera.com/contenido/661_235123_9.shtml|date=March 18, 2010|publisher=[[El Mercurio]]|title=Chile ayuda a Chile entrega su recaudación final: $45.974.813.684|access-date=2010-03-18|language=es|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713191233/http://www.latercera.com/contenido/661_235123_9.shtml|archive-date=July 13, 2011}}</ref>