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Special Segment - Give Kids the World

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4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2009

⏱️ 27 minutes

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DIS Unplugged special correspondent David Parfitt visits Give Kids The World Village in Kissimmee, FL.

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0:00.0

This is David Parford checking in for the dis unplugged. It is a gorgeous day. We're down

0:06.9

here in Orlando and we're actually at the Give Kids the World Village and we're here

0:12.3

with Susie Story. Hi Susie. Hi, good morning. So Susie's going to give us a tour of the

0:17.3

village and tell us all about it. So I'll turn it over to Susie. Okay, well we are starting

0:23.5

here at the House of Hearts and Give Kids the World as you may or may not know is actually

0:28.3

a resort for children and their families. All the children between the ages of 3 and

0:32.6

18 and they have some sort of life threatening illness. Okay. So what we do is we partner

0:37.3

with wish regretting organizations worldwide and if that child has a wish to meet Mickey

0:42.4

Mouse or C. Shamu or anything that's related to Central Florida, then the wish-grinding

0:47.6

organization calls us and we take over from there. Okay. And we provide a full week's

0:51.7

vacation complete with the accommodations here at the village. All of their theme park

0:56.3

tickets, all of their meals and so much more at no cost to them. Wow. So the families

1:00.6

don't have to pay anything. You don't pay a thing the whole time they're here. That's

1:03.8

wonderful. So here at the House of Hearts is basically where the week begins. Okay. Families

1:11.8

they have their check-in here. We have guest services. They can come in borrow movies.

1:15.5

They anything that they may need. This has opened 24 hours a day and this is where their

1:19.5

whole week begins and also where they're week will end when they check out it. Okay.

1:23.2

And I have to say for our listeners so when we pulled up it's Saturday it's probably

1:27.8

about 10 o'clock. It's incredibly busy. So a lot of people checking in. It's a really

1:32.1

vibrant place. We are just like any other resort. We have families checking in and families

1:36.9

checking out every single day of the year. And it seems worldwide too. I heard a lot of

1:40.4

accents in there. Absolutely. We have currently reached our 93,000 family and we've served

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