Make a difference with Jump
For 45 years, Jump Rope for Heart has helped kids across Canada learn the importance of getting active. With your support, funds raised help drive Heart & Stroke’s mission to beat heart disease and stroke.
Your impact is real. Sophie and her daughter Mia were both born with the same heart condition—but thanks to advances in care funded by programs like Jump Rope for Heart, their experiences were very different. Today, they’re both living healthy, active lives.
A child's thank you
Because of donors like you, we fund Canada’s top medical minds. Watch Dr. Lori West meet the people her research saved—and discover her breakthrough that’s transforming heart transplants. Through powerful storytelling, we show that while research may be hard to see, its impact is impossible to ignore.
Making an impact for 45 years!
Who Jump supports
Meet some of the incredible children whose lives have been impacted by heart disease and stroke. Their journeys are a powerful reminder of why we Jump and how your support is helping create healthier futures for kids across Canada.
Born with congenital heart disease
Born with congenital heart disease, Mia is thriving today and can run, play and enjoy being a kid thanks to life-saving research and medical advancements.
Experienced a pediatric stroke
Julian was born with a congenital heart defect and experienced a pediatric stroke at the age of 3. Medical advancements helped save his life.
Heart transplant survivor
When Charlie was only three months old, his heart suddenly failed. Thanks to medical innovation and the gift of a donor heart, today, at the age of five, he loves to run, laugh and show off his “bravery scars.”
Heart transplant survivor
From having a sudden and unexplained heart attack at birth to thriving as a young advocate, Nora is living proof that resilience can begin in even the smallest hearts.
