The Deb Bailey Foundation Inc for Motor Neurone Disease was set up to raise money for medical research into a cure for motor neurone disease (MND), a debilitating and presently incurable disease that affects the nervous system.

The Foundation also acts as a lobby group to persuade governments to allocate funds and other support for researchers in their quest to conquer neurological diseases such as MND.

The Deb Bailey Foundation Inc was named in memory of Deb Bailey, a successful and energetic Sydney journalist who died suffering from MND. Deb believed that if a task was important, you ignored its difficulty and devoted all your energy to its accomplishment.

While MND presently remains unconquered, several encouraging breakthroughs have happened recently. Researchers believe that finding an MND cure will go hand in hand with the cure for a whole range of neurological diseases including Parkinson's and Multiple Sclerosis.

Professor Stephen Hawking, an eminent British scientist who is also a rare long-term survivor of MND, once said that MND doesn’t get the attention it deserves because it often kills its victims in two or three years, and they aren’t around to be noticed.

The Deb Bailey Foundation aims to combine the voices of the many MND people, their families, friends and supporters, into a loud and clear voice to politicians and bureaucrats.

Together we can change the course of this disease.

The immediate goal of the Deb Bailey Foundation is to support  researchers looking for the cure for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and other related neurological diseases.

We do this by both lobbying governments to provide better financial assistance, and by direct financial support ourselves.

Our current project is to support the Queensland Brain Institute's research into ways to stimulate the production of new functional nerve cells to overcome diseases such as MND, dementia and stroke. QBI's website is www.qbi.uq.edu.au.

Public support is a crucial step in the lobbying process, so you can help simply by registering on this site. Click on the REGISTER link at the top of this page.

If you would like to make a donation, please email robyn@debbailey.org to organise a direct deposit, or send a cheque addressed to:
The Deb Bailey Foundation
Box 163,
Kingsford
NSW 2032
Australia

All donations are tax deductible.

We need your support! Simply registering your name and details on this site is a great start! It will allow us to show Australia that there are thousands of people who want to see progress in neurological disease research. We can then connect with and apply pressure on our politicians to provide specific funding toward MND & related neurological disease research, as well as pressuring them to initiate or support specific policy and legislation to aid such research.