As mentioned a while back, I was planning to donate to Child’s Play Charity 2006. Well, I did. Today I got an email from Gerard Long the eCommerce Manager for DStore who’re managing the Australian side of the wishlists.

Anyway, apparently all up, between the two childrens hospitals (Sydney Childrens Hospital, and Mater Childrens Hospital in Brisbane) over AUD$13,000 worth ot toys, books, games, and other related items were donated.  See the official word over on the dStore site.  Not a bad start for something which had only 4 weeks to run, and was mainly contributed to by the more net-aware folks.

Internationally though - over USD$760,000 (AUD$972k) has been raised so far - through money donations, sponsorships, auctions, and gift purchases through various wish list companies.

That truely is a phenominal amount of money we’re talking about.