Jeans4Genes Day August 3rd 2007
Friday 8th June 2007
Our support of Jeans for Genes Day for the Children's Medical Research Institute is part of Kimberly-Clark Australia's commitment to caring for your community.
The partnership with the Children’s Medical Research Institute, along with the whole Community Care Program that we run, is about us connecting with the community in which you live in a meaningful way. Through our community partnerships, we aim to reflect our corporate values of "caring for others", "teamwork" and "exceeding expectations". Of course our main aim of our partnership with CMRI is to raise awareness of the CMRI's work and its achievements and to assist them to meet their goals. We provide support for the CRMI in several ways.
Jeans4Genes Day
Each year the CMRI hosts Jeans4Genes Day, which aims to raise awareness and funds to support the CMRI's ongoing research programs.
We support this event every year and host a lunchtime barbeque, have teams of people selling badges and other Jeans4Genes Day product, and we are always in our jeans at the office on this important day. It's all in the effort of raising much needed funds to help the one in twenty children who are born with some form of genetic fault. There are children with leukaemia, muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis and many other disorders. The scientists at the Children’s Medical Research Institute are working to try to prevent these diseases before they occur in our children, or where that is not possible to develop better treatments.
It's easy to get involved and we encourage you to "give gene-rously". Jeans 4 Genes Day will be held on the 3rd August 2007.
Take a look at the Jeans4Genes Day website for ideas on how you can take part in this important event and possibly become a genie for a day.
To watch an overview of the work conducted by the CMRI take a few mintues to watch the video "Difficult Questions" that has been produced to help communicate the real message of the Institute.