UPDATE: 1,000 raffle tickets sold for St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway House

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ)-  Generous Central Kentuckians have bought 1,000 raffle tickets for the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway House in Lexington.

ABC 36 is proud to be teaming up with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for the fundraiser. Each raffle ticket costs $100. And only 7,000 are available for a chance to win a brand new $400,000 home in the upscale Tuscany neighborhood. The house built by DB Homes, is approximately 2,900 square feet with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms and a 2-car garage.

The winner will be drawn in June. And 100-percent of the ticket sales will go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The non-profit is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other deadly diseases. St. Jude has the world’s best survival rates for the most aggressive childhood cancers, and treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since it opened more than 50 years ago.

Call 1-800-382-7512 to buy a raffle ticket. You can also click here for more information.