Dollars help us to...
Because much of Burnet’s work is with infectious material we need to use disposable equipment. If we had a glass breakage in the lab it could mean that someone could be exposed to a deadly disease.
- This little gadget mightn’t look like much but two pipetters and a box of disposable tips costs around $500.
- Tissue culture fluid is a special fluid in which we grow cells. For $100 you can donate the 10 bottles we need for our experiments every day.
- Safety goggles aren’t a fashion statement in the labs, they are an absolute necessity. It costs us $2,500 to buy a pair for each scientist.
- These special tissue culture flasks cost about $1 each and a $50 donation will cover the cost for them for one week.
- It costs $3 to launder a lab coat. Our scientists must wear a coat every time they enter the lab. $350 will keep all 120 of them in hygienic coats for a week.
- For around $400 you can donate a box of these special serological 10mll pipettes. They cost around $40 for a box of 100 and will last us about a week.
- We need 200 pairs of gloves a day for our scientific staff. $50 will keep our scientists in gloves for a week. And they’re just the cheap ones!
Burnet understands that the best thing we can do for a community is to build the capacity of its members. If we teach people how to plan for better health they can build solid and sustainable foundations for their future and for their children.
- In Sri Lanka we work with the elders on the tea plantations to ensure they have adequate health and wellbeing. $300 will provide one elder with cataract surgery and post operative care.
- Burnet has many projects looking after the health of women and children. In Papua New Guinea $5000 will cover the cost of training and support for one immunisation officer. We know that this is a lot of money but this project aims to immunise 1,000,000 children under the age of 5.
- One of the best ways to reach young people is to go where they go and talk to them in a way that they can easily understand. $1,500 will fund the materials and training needed for a researcher to gather data at Melbourne’s Big Day Out.
- Burnet employees train community members to become peer educators enabling them to discuss delicate health and social issues. Around $40 will fund the monthly wages for a peer educator in Mozambique, Laos, Tibet or Indonesia.
- We distribute information to vulnerable people by providing them with culturally sensitive brochures, handbooks and posters to get our safe health messages across. We can produce 1,000 ‘Health advice for Women’ booklets in Tibet for around $300.
We would love for you to raise as many extra funds for Burnet as possible.
