Supported Charities
Supporting key charities is important to being a socially responsible business and the Adelaide 36ers have two charities that we support, they are the Hudson Maher Foundation and Cystic Fibrosis SA.
Each of these charities have a personal link with the team and we encourage members and fans to get behind these two charities.
Hudson Maher Foundation
It's hard to imagine anything more heart wrenchingly painful than discovering your child was suffering from a life-threatening disease.
Yet, for some people, this trauma can be made even more difficult to cope with by the acute financial pressures that can arise when seeking the necessary medical treatments.
While private health cover can help with the treatment itself, there are often a number of associated costs that can stretch parents to breaking point – at a time when they may be forced to cease work indefinitely and stop earning an income.
This is where the Hudson Maher Foundation can help.
Practical, day-to-day financial assistance in times of extreme need for parents of children suffering life-threatening bone marrow diseases, the Hudson Maher Foundation can provide financial support to help cover associated costs of specialist medical treatment, such as:
Inter and intra-state travel to locations of specialist treatment.
Temporary rental accommodation.
Travel to and from treatment centres.
Mortgage and insurance payments
http://www.hudsonmaher.com.au/
Cystic Fibrosis SA
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a recessive genetic condition. The gene involved in CF gives instructions for the cells to make a protein that controls the movement of salt in and out of cells.
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease that affects a number of organs in the body (especially the lungs and pancreas) by clogging them with thick, sticky mucus.
Repeated infections and blockages can cause irreversible lung damage and death. Mucus can also cause problems in the pancreas preventing the release of enzymes needed for the digestion of food. This means that people with CF can have problems with nutrition.
CF is an inherited condition. For a child to be born with CF both parents must be genetic carriers for CF. They do not have CF themselves.
In Australia, all babies are screened at birth for CF.
At present there is no cure for CF, but the faulty gene has been identified and doctors and scientists are working to find ways of repairing or replacing it. One of the main objectives of the CFA Research Trust is to fund this work.
