Just three days ahead of the major annual fundraiser, Royal Far West has received an enormous cash injection of $19.7 million thanks to the federal government.
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The paediatrics charity will invest the money into throwing its Telecare for Kids program nationally.
Currently existing in pockets of the Riverina, the Telecare program provides health and well-being services to children with developmental struggles.
"Right now there are 100,000 children who are developmentally vulnerable and have no access to help where they live," said Royal Far West business director Jacqui Emery.
"But what we know is that is a drop in the ocean compared to the size of the problem."
The numbers are based on regional children aged between three and 12, but Royal Far West estimates there are up to 300,000 vulnerable children when that grouping is raised to age 17.
Building a broad understanding of the problem in actuality, requires the charity to invest heavily in research and surveying the nation.
To do this, they have enlisted the assistance of Wagga's Charles Sturt Univeristy campus.
"It can be very difficult for rural kids to get the support they need," said university vice-chancellor Andrew Vann.
"Especially for things like speech pathology, it can be a big problem and it's hard to access help remotely."
Currently, the system works through school-referral whereby concerned teachers can request an assessment of their students based on five separate categories including physical health, social, vision and hearing, growth, language and literacy.
"About 22 per cent of kids in regional areas have a concern in one or more of these areas," said Ms Emery.
"It's quite a broad spectrum of challenges that require access to a range of services, but we know that if it's not picked up early there's the risk of lower health outcomes in adulthood.
"These are health issues that often manifest as social issues and are carried with them their whole lives."
To combat the tyranny of distance experienced by many in smaller communities, where there is limited access to healthcare services, Royal Far West introduced a system of teleconferencing support.
"There is always a teacher in the room, and ideally we can get the parents involved to, and they don't need to take a day off work to travel hundreds of kilometres to go to an appointment," said Ms Emery.
"Alongside that child getting help, the teacher is able to build strategies and skills that will work to better the whole class."
With the funding due to begin trickling through after the federal election, vice-chancellor Vann indicated his intentions to bring the issues to the opposition party's attention.
"We want to lobby for Labor's support on this too, bipartisan support is the ideal," he said.
"This is a hole in regional healthcare that no-one has been filling, so it is worthy of that support."
Additional to the reception of federal money, Royal Far West has also raised up to $500,000 ahead of its annual Ride for Country Kids.
Beginning in the early hours of Sunday, 63 riders will make a three-day cycling journey of 450km from Albury, through Wagga and into Lake Cargelligo.