Wear jeans and fight childhood disease
Jeans for Genes Day is a national day when people are invited to wear their jeans to raise funds for research into birth defects and diseases such as cancer, epilepsy and a range of genetic disorders. On Friday 2nd August workplaces, schools and streets will become a sea of denim in a united stance against childhood disease. The money raised goes to the Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI).
One in twenty children is born with a congenital abnormality or genetic disease. That’s over 12,000 children born in Australia each year. Scientists at the CMRI have been working on discovering treatments and cures since 1958.
CMRI’s many achievements include increasing survival rates of premature babies, establishing Australia’s first research unit for newborns, developing lifesaving microsurgery techniques and introducing vaccines that protect against a number of potentially fatal or disabling childhood diseases.
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