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Despite the unusual date of this edition, the inhabitants of Essonne were able to respond during the thirty hours of Telethon 2024, on Friday November 29 and Saturday November 30, 2024. counter in the department displayed 560 982 euros of pledges Sunday December 1, 2024.

Essonniens among the most generous in Île-de-France

At the national level, nearly 80 million euros were raised for the benefit of research on rare genetic diseases.

Essonne was the fourth most generous department in Île-de-France behind Yvelines, Paris and Hauts-de-Seine.

Mika, the sponsor of this edition went to Évry-Courcouronnes

Mikathe sponsor of this editionwent to Évry-Courcouronnes on Saturday, where the Téléthon was born in 1987 and where the Généthon laboratory is located, specializing in gene therapy research.

The famous singer also went to the Arenas of Grand Paris Sud, in the only e-sports stadium in France, where 70 streamers and 200 gamers joined forces alongside Karmine Corp for the Gaming Telethon, a 30-hour marathon of video games.

A broken record for the Gaming Telethon organized from the Arena

This eighth edition of the event made it possible to break the record for donations collected with a prize pool which displays 360,614 euros.

“The Telethon counter will continue to grow in the coming days because, if the victories are more and more numerous, the families who are faced with the emergency of the disease are asking us: don’t give up,” calls the AFM-Téléthon in a press release, recalling that 3637 is still open until Friday December 6.

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