Thursday 20 May – Gardeners Road Public School – 827 Botany Road, Rosebery, NSW, 2018
Today, 300+ students and staff at Gardeners Road Public School will be dressing up as pirates to raise money for The Kids’ Cancer Project, who fund scientific research to find a cure for childhood cancer.
Pirate Day is an annual national day of dressing up to raise awareness and much-needed funds for childhood brain cancer. Since 2015, Pirate Day has raised over $360,000 for childhood brain cancer research.
Cancer kills more Australian children than any other disease, with 950 children diagnosed each year and three passing away every week. With research the only way towards a cure, The Kids’ Cancer Project is committed to funding a breadth of scientists and research projects that investigate childhood brain cancer and treatment options. With the effects of treatment posing different developmental challenges to children, the need for bespoke cancer research for children remains imperative.
Funding scientific projects is the fastest way to a cure and the money raised by Gardeners Road Public School for The Kids’ Cancer Project will support research to help improve childhood cancer treatments, and ultimately survival. Funds raised through 2021 Pirate Day will be directed specifically to Dr Raelene Endersby’s scientific investigation into immunotherapy for children with brain cancer.
ABOUT THE KIDS’ CANCER PROJECT
The Kids’ Cancer Project is an independent national charity supporting childhood cancer research. Since 1993, thanks to strong community support, they have contributed tens of millions of dollars to scientific studies to help children with many types of cancer.
The mission of The Kids’ Cancer Project is to support bold science that has the greatest chance of clinical success to improve childhood cancer treatments. The vision is to see a one hundred per cent survival rate for children with cancer while eradicating the harmful impacts treatment can bring.
Donate directly to The Kids’ Cancer Project online thekidscancerproject.org.au.
Source: Kids Cancer Project
