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Windows on Pain: Our second year:

The first Windows on Pain in 2008 won the Fundraising Institute of Australia’s prestigious annual award for Best Special Event of the Year in NSW, a great accolade and tribute to everyone involved.

Just to remind you, Windows on Pain is the fundraising and awareness campaign of the Pain Management Research Institute, Sydney, a leading world institute for research and treatment of severe persistent pain, the type of pain that restricts people’s lives to devastating effect.

The principal aims of the campaign are to raise the level of public awareness about the prevalence of severe pain and its wide reaching impact and to raise funds so that research can be accelerated and more people helped.

A staggering 3.2 million working-age Australians have this degree of pain at any time. The annual economic cost is about $34 billion. Research leads to better treatments all the time, but there’s still a long way to go.

Once again we’re asking for your generosity with your talents, skills, time and funds, and the goodwill and enthusiasm that made 2008 such a memorable first.  Windows on Pain is spreading its young wings this year, so we need your support more than ever.

TOGETHER WE CAN OPEN WINDOWS ON PAIN TO GREATER UNDERSTANDING!!

For more information on the campaign, please visit Windows on Pain website, www.windowsonpain.org.

or contact

Nikki Brown: 02 9926 6375, 0413 655 734, nmbrown@nsccahs.health.nsw.gov.au

Date entered - 4th March 2009

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