The Teletón in Mexico is a yearly event, started in 1997, in which through a TV and radio broadcast of more than 24 hours it is intended to collect money to help in the creation of children rehabilitation centers, called "Centro de Rehabilitación Infantil Teletón", or "CRIT" (English: "Teletón Children's Rehabilitation Center"), for children with different disabilities. Mexico's proposal was born due to the initiative of Fernando Landeros. The Teletón in Mexico is produced by Televisa along with more than 500 Mexican and foreign media, as well as more than a hundred commercial firms that sponsor the event.

The stated mission of the telethon is "to provide knowledge about physical disabilities, giving a strong message about respect, equality and support to people in these conditions". The last events Teleton have lasted around 30 hours, but since 1997 it has been started on the first Friday of December. The last Teletón took place on December 5 and 6 of 2008 and it has always been conceptualized as "a project of national unity where the Mexicans have the chance to gather and work for the same cause." Until 2003 the final stage of the event had always been marked by a concert in the Azteca Stadium, ever since then it has been changing the venue: in 2004 and 2005 it was held at Mexico City's Zócalo, in 2006 at the Foro Sol, in 2007 and 2008 it was moved to the National Auditorium.

In addition to the creation of CRITs all around the country, the CRIT System and the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM) signed an agreement in the year 2000 which created two bachelors dedicated to the formation of professionals capable of working with the children at the CRITs and allowed the creation of the Instituto Teletón de Estudios Superiores (ITESUR), located next to the first CRIT ever built. ITESUR is the only university in Mexico that grants titles in Occupational therapy and Physical therapy. From 1997 to 2004, Mexican actress and pop star Lucero was heavily involved in every telethon, being the main spokesperson for most of the broadcast.

After a controversy involving her security personnel and the media, her role has been downplayed and several other personalities from Televisa have been included in the broadcast. But on 2009, the Teleton,also help children with cancer,and on top of rasing money towards the cause they had a new goal to also raise enough strands of hair to make wigs for those young girls having chemo whom lost all their hair.

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