The 38th edition of the Telethon ended on the night of Saturday to Sunday, December 1, with a final prize pool of nearly 80 million euros, according to the AFM-Téléthon association. In Occitania, pledges amount to just over 1.7 million euros.
The 38th edition of the Telethon, which began in the evening of Friday November 29, 2024, concluded on the night of Saturday to Sunday December 1 with a final prize pool of nearly 80 million euros for the benefit of research into rare genetic diseases. , according to the AFM-Téléthon association.
At the end of the meeting, in the middle of the night, the counter showed €79,801,520, the organizers specified in the closing press release.
The 2023 edition had collected a little more than 80 million euros at the end of the weekend and almost 93 million in the end. It was in 2006 that the counter reached its record, with more than 106 million euros.
“The French were there and brought nearly 80 million euros in pledges, which is enormous given the context, I want to say a huge thank you to all those who donated,” greeted AFP Laurence Tiennot Herment, president of the French Association against Myopathies-Téléthon.
Behind this amount, “there are so many hopes of treatment for the families”, she underlined.
Occitanie in tune with the rest of France
In tune with the rest of the country, donors from the thirteen departments of the Occitanie region also largely contributed to the fantastic result despite this edition which was held on an unusual date. Here are the donation pledges department by department:
- Haute-Garonne: €476,740
- Hérault: €386,897
- Gard : 233 214 €
- Pyrénées-Orientales: €122,907
- Tarn : 117 217 €
- Aveyron: €104,542
- Hear: €85,079
- Hautes-Pyrénées: €80,169
- Lot : 68 057 €
- Tarn-et-Garonne: €66,631
- Gers : 56 057 €
- Ariège: €32,933
- Lozère: €22,398
3637 is still open until Friday December 6
“We are really relieved, very happy, 'grateful', grateful”, reacted to AFP the singer Mika, “marathon runner” sponsor of this edition, stressing that it was “not easy to change the date” of the event, brought forward due to the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris on December 8.
“It is only by doing the Telethon that we understand the immense effort it takes to achieve this remarkable figure […] and it’s not over yet,” he added.
Donors can indeed contribute up to Friday December 6 at 36.37 and all year round on the telethon.fr website.
This year is special because a treatment could change the course of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disease previously considered incurable. This rare pathology, which destroys muscles and affects one in 3,000 boys in France, is an emblematic cause of the Telethon: in 1958 it was at the origin of the creation of the AFM, the association which organizes this charity marathon. to fund research.
The needs in 2025 to finance an “exceptional trial” on this disease “exceed 30 million euros”, according to Ms Tiennot-Herment.
In 2023, the AFM has dedicated around 60 million euros to the research and development of new therapies.
