Do you know how small one-hundredth of a peanut is?

Michael O’Sullivan does. His Telethon-funded work — treating babies and young children with serious nut allergies, as immunology consultant at Perth Children’s Hospital and Fiona Stanley Hospital — depends on it.

Do you know how much money $83.3 million really is?

That is how much Telethon raised last year, a sum that will go to 161 beneficiaries, 305 grants, 212 programs and services, 41 research projects and 3924 pieces of equipment.

The numbers associated with Telethon, whether as minuscule as one-hundredth of a peanut or as massive as $83.3m, can be hard to visualise.

That is why the true impact of Telethon on the WA community — from medical research to premature babies, children with disabilities and people suffering with severe

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