Celebrate generosity this Lunar New Year by making a donation to help kids with cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Together with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the Year of the Snake in 2025 promises new beginnings, a brighter hope for the future and opportunities to lift all of our communities together as one.
Art by St. Jude survivor Adrienne
Generosity is lifesaving:
Your gift helps ensure our mission
Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — so families can focus on helping their child live.
St. Jude has achieved a 94% survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a type of blood cancer, up from 4% in 1962. Learn more >
St. Jude is leading research to improve chemotherapy safety and effectiveness for pediatric patients of East Asian descent affected by ALL.
St. Jude is developing new, improved treatments for children with cancer, creating more clinical trials for cancer than any other children’s hospital.
Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped raise the survival rate for children with cancer in the United States, where 4 out of 5 children survive cancer. In many countries, however, 1 out of 5 children who develop cancer will survive. We won’t stop until no child dies from cancer, no matter where they live. Learn more about the St. Jude Global initiative >
St. Jude Dr. Ching-Hon Pui with St. Jude patient Micah
Meet Ching-Hon Pui, MD
Lunar New Year is a time to touch lives — like Dr. Pui.
In 1977, the cure rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) — the most common pediatric cancer — was only 40%. Pui has played a central role in developing a series of clinical trials that raised survival rates of ALL to 94% at St. Jude today. Pui's research has also dramatically increased access to pediatric cancer care for children in China.
Send an e-card or a mail card for Lunar New Year.
Dedicate a donation
Dedicate a donation and send a Lunar New Year mail card or e-card to the person of your choosing.
St. Jude patient Vietnam holds a photo of himself from when he was undergoing treatment.
Send a free virtual card to patients
Share messages of good fortune with the kids of St. Jude by sending a virtual card.
St. Jude patient Maelin-Kate
Create your own fundraiser
Use this year's Lunar New Year to make an impact on the kids of St. Jude.
Shop the St. Jude Gift Shop
Celebrate friends and family this Lunar New Year with a gift from our gift shop. All purchases benefit the kids of St. Jude.
St. Jude patient Tam and his family
There have been no setbacks, no relapses. All has been gravy.
St. Jude patient Tam's father
Tam was 4 years old when he was diagnosed with a fast-growing cancerous brain tumor. He underwent surgery and rehab in his home state before being referred to St. Jude for treatment.
Tam's father said St. Jude soon became a second home. Tam received treatment before going home less than a year later in 2018. He returns to St. Jude for regular checkups every year.
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Patient meals
Your $50 gift could provide two days of meals to a patient.*
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Medical teaching dolls
Your $75 gift could help provide medical teaching dolls for St. Jude patients. Child Life Specialists use dolls and real medical equipment to teach patients about procedures to make them less intimidating.*
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A red wagon
Your $100 gift could help provide a red wagon, which is the preferred mode of travel through the halls of the hospital for our youngest patients.*
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Family meals
Your $250 gift could help provide five days of meals for a St. Jude patient and their guardian. St. Jude provides patients and their families breakfast, lunch and dinner in Kay Kafe, the hospital’s cafeteria.*
*When you make a donation using this information, your donation will be used to provide breakthrough research, treatment and cures. Items listed here are representative of services and supplies that are part of the treatment and care of children at St. Jude. Read more about approximated costs.
St. Jude patient Misheel
St. Jude means a lot to us, it has become a loving family.
St. Jude patient Misheel's mother
Meet St. Jude patient Misheel
Misheel was diagnosed with brain cancer in July 2023. Despite her own diagnosis, she has refused to let her illness keep her from spreading joy to others.
“She is trying her best to show kids that things can happen, but there are always good ways to go through it,” said her mother, Undrakh.
Your Lunar New Year gift can make a difference
Because of your support, we can provide children with cutting-edge treatments not covered by insurance, at no cost to families. Unlike other hospitals, the majority of funding for St. Jude comes from generous donors. Join us and be part of our mission to save more lives.
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Lunar New Year, which is also called Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, celebrates the beginning of a new year on the lunisolar calendar. It is the most important holiday of the year for those who observe and is widely celebrated by many of the East and Southeast Asian population all over the world. Lunar New Year is referred to as Chinese New Year in China, Tết (or Tết Nguyên Đán) in Vietnam, and Seollal in Korea.
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In 2025, Lunar New Year begins on Jan. 29 and ends on Feb. 4 with the Lantern Festival on February 24. Lunar New Year begins on the new moon, which typically appears at the end of January to the end of February. Lunar New Year celebrations last just over two weeks and end on Lantern Festival, which occurs on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
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- New Year’s Eve Dinner, or a reunion dinner when all family members gather, is the most important part of the celebration. Traditional feasts include chicken, fish, duck, and pork dishes.
- Drums and fireworks are used to ward off evil spirits with loud noises.
- Red Envelopes filled with money are given by married adults to children to bring good wishes and luck for the new year ahead.
- Cleaning before the New Year gets rid of the bad luck and welcomes good luck.
- Decorations like red lanterns, spring couplets, and paper cuttings are fashioned in red, a symbolic color for good fortune.
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