Why we're doing Jeans for Genes’ Bake It Blue
Our team cares about the 1 in 20 Aussie kids who face a birth defect or genetic disease. That's one in every classroom, maybe someone you know or love. Every day, many of these kids wake up to pills, injections, hospital visits (or worse). They don't get the chance to run around and just be kids. If they can endure that, and keep smiling, then the least we can do is fight alongside them. That's why we're doing Jeans for Genes and raising money for Children's Medical Research Institute. We want to give these kids better treatments and maybe even a cure.
We’ve signed up to Bake It Blue, so we can raise awareness and start the conversation—we need to do all we can to help save more kids’ lives. Can you help by sharing this message with the people you know and asking them to donate too? We (and millions of Aussie kids) thank you for it!
Here's just one example of how, together, we can change things:
When Kalarny was born, he couldn’t hold his head up. He couldn’t move. He was fighting just to breathe. He was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), and his parents were told he wouldn’t survive to his first birthday. Thanks to research he survived, but he needs regular spinal injections and a wheelchair to get around. If he’d been born just a few years later, he could have received gene therapy. Infants treated with just one injection of gene therapy seem to be cured. It’s early days, but signs indicate that they will go on to lead normal, healthy lives. It’s so effective, SMA has been added to newborn screening and the gene therapy treatment is covered by PBS. An incurable disease just a few years ago, is now curable. Amazing. That’s what we want for more kids and more of the 6000 genetic diseases out there.
There’s lots of work to do, but there is also lots of hope.
Join us. Share this message. Donate. Thank You!
Our Impact
So far this year we helped provide...
158
Hours of research
For every $55 raised, one hour of research is funded
Our Team Members
Thank you to our Sponsors
$264
Jason Russ
$55
Kai Wakerman Powell
<3
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Gaby Marino
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Rebecca Banagala
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Calvin Luu
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M
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Anonymous
For our beautiful little Claudia xx
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Richard Slingsby
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Christopher Stewart
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Hailee Bradley
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Carina Martiniello
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Alana Morley
Love to Matt, Tiffany and Claudia. Xx
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Mark Fullick
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Claire & Luke
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Coras Community Engagement
Coras is very proud to be in a position to donate to this amazing cause.
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Hannah Gibson
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Michelle Todd
I love that this supports research and treatments that helps small humans - and lets them get on with doing small human things like playing!
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Brett Rylance
Happy to help a worthwhile cause that supports Aussie kids :)
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John
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