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Why we’re doing Jeans for Genes’s Bake it Blue

Our team signed up to Jeans for Genes Bake it Blue. This raises money for Children’s Medical Research Institute and helps save more kids’ lives. Can you help by sharing this message with the people you know and asking them to donate too?

Here's just one story explaining why this cause is so important:

Harrison was a healthy, active child, until one day out of the blue, “He wasn’t quite right, and then the next day he just stopped walking, and we knew something was very wrong,” said his father, Adam.

Doctors found something wrong with his blood, and when his parents were told it could be leukaemia “everything stopped.” As terrifying as that word was for them to hear, it got worse as Harrison’s case was unique, and it took many DNA tests to determine he had acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). They were lucky to get the right treatment after the right diagnosis, but it could have gone very differently if that work had not been done.

“Medical research is so important to get any answers for any genetic condition,” said his mum, Naomi. “For Harrison, the research done prior to him getting sick is what helped save our son. Research needs to continue so the next child diagnosed with a rare form of AML or any cancer—it can help them.”

We care about the 1 in 20 Aussie kids who face a birth defect or genetic disease, like cancer. Most people don’t know that cancer is caused by changes in genes—but almost everyone will be touched by it. So, the research you and I support today may one day help someone we know, someone in our own families.

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...

19

Hours of research

For every $55 raised, one hour of research is funded

Thank you to our Sponsors

$53

Cilla Wild

2 months ago

$402

Merredin Health Service

Cash donations from our morning tea

2 months ago

$32

Melinda Brackley

Go Cilla!!!

3 months ago

$11

Anonymous

3 months ago

$11

Zaheer Sayyed

3 months ago

$21

Vickie Western

3 months ago

$56

Liz M

3 months ago

$21

Anonymous

3 months ago

$10

Jay + Lesley Watson

3 months ago

$11

Janae De Lacy

3 months ago

$21

Kerry Roach

Thank you villa for organising

3 months ago

$26

Molly Mcglynn

3 months ago

$21

Jacob Mcglynn

3 months ago

$53

Tessa Crook

3 months ago

$26

Scott & Mauz Wilson

3 months ago

$264

Verity Hudson

Priscilla your a persuasive gal! Glad to be donating to such a good cause 🫶

3 months ago