BLUE denim was the uniform for students at Osbornes Flat Primary school on Friday – and for people across the country.
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Jeans for Genes Day yet again saw people from all walks of life supporting the cause in their Levi’s.
Osbornes Flat aimed to raise $100 from their 80 students and teacher Jason McPherson said it was an event the school backed every year.
“We do a bit of a parade and pick out the best dressed,” he said.
“It usually goes to the people in double denim.”
Mr McPherson said allowing the students to participate in Jeans for Genes Day meant more awareness would be raised.
“The money goes directly to an institute that researches kid’s needs and illnesses,” he said.
“If students have an awareness, as they get older they can still contribute to causes like this.”
Thousands of people across Australia involve themselves in Jeans for Genes Day to raise money to help the Children’s Medical Research Institute’s battle against childhood genetic disease.
Schools, businesses and individuals are known to regularly support the cause.
Every dollar raised through donning denim will help the Children’s Medical Research Institute find cures and treatments, ensuring youngsters live fulfilling lives.
Jeans for Genes Day has already raised more than $112,000 nationally.
The Children’s Medical Research Institute said $1 would help fight cancer and a gold coin could buy enough enzymes needed to test a patient’s blood for aggressive cancer.
About $5 will help treat epilepsy and the institute’s scientists can purchase plastic 96-in-one test tubes to screen 96 potential epilepsy drugs at once.
People who donate $20 will be part of identifying the causes of blindness.
Already scientists have discovered 12 genes that cause blindness in children and the money will buy 400 mini test tubes to help scientists continue to discover more.
If $30 is donated to the Children’s Medical Research Institute, the cause of deadly brain cancers can be researched.
It will allow institute researchers to analyse the DNA codes in genes they are studying.
People who donate $45 will be part of the development of better treatments for different diseases.
Researchers are working to improve therapies for diseases such as cancer, epilepsy and asthma.
This amount of money will buy one milligram of the chemical necessary for hundreds of tests that will discover how the therapies can reduce side effects.
Just $75 will help the institute purchase materials needed to isolate cancer DNA so researches can study it and identify what went wrong and what turned a normal cell into cancer.
Visit www.jeansforgenes.org.au/get-involved/donate to donate to the cause.
