It’s July, which means it’s Dry July! This special month is all about pledging to go 31 days without a drop of alcohol.
Once again, the Our House Team in Lismore has challenged themselves and put their hands up to drink no alcohol for the month of July, joining thousands of others across Australia who want to help cancer patients and their own health at the same time.
The team at Our House have been going dry since 2010, when the Our House project became the first regional project to be supported by the national charity Dry July.
This year, Dr Chris Ingall, Rebekka Battista and Tania Harris-Bateman from Our House are joining forces with Bridie Tanner and Julie Ray from ABC North Coast, to not only to give their livers a break but also to rally the community to join them in raising funds for cancer.
Keep Our House Beautiful
The funds raised by the Our House team in 2024 will go towards repainting the twenty rooms at Our House as part of the ‘Help Keep Our House Beautiful’ program.
‘One thousand guests a year from across the Northern Rivers stay at Our House while they or their loved one has medical treatment, and we would like to continue to keep Our House looking beautiful for patients to enjoy,’ said Our House Director Rebekka Battista.
Dry July is a national campaign that started with a group of mates, one who had cancer and the others who decided to ‘dare’ each other to go dry to raise funds.
Since then, Dry July has inspired more than 250,000 Aussies to go dry, raising over $60 million for people affected by cancer and funding projects at more than 80 cancer organisations across Australia. Our House is one of these projects.
Past funds from Dry July have replaced bathroom floors, sofa beds, and beds, replaced TVs in the rooms, and repainted the therapy gardens— all to help ‘Keep Our House Beautiful’.
