The Demon duo will be ambassadors for the initiative headed up by Professor Hugh Taylor which aims to eliminate the infectious disease prevalent only in Aboriginal communities within six years.
"We've got 30 to 40,000 indigenous kids that have this disease today, so it's a pretty serious situation," Davey said from Darwin on Saturday.
"With the great resources available and through the work of the professor, hopefully in six years time we can eliminate it.
"Myself, being a role model indigenous guy, I just want to help drive [the healthy lifestyle message] in the communities. It's special to myself and Liam to know that the Melbourne footy club is really getting behind it - it means a lot."
Club president Jim Stynes was delighted to be able to lend the support of the club, which is working hard to establish a stronger foothold in the region with tackling key indigenous health issues a major focus.
"This is really being led by Aaron and Liam. We don't want to impose ourselves, but rather say to them 'what's possible?'," Stynes said.
"I think it's important for our young players to actually understand that they have a role to play [in the community]. It's not just about taking."
The painful disease eventually leads to the eyelashes of the sufferer being turned inward to rub directly on the surface of the eye, causing extreme irritation and, in many cases, eventual blindness.
Using the high profiles of Jurrah and Davey, Professor Taylor hopes to spread the message that treatment to eventually eliminate the disease is remarkably simple.
"One of the things we have to try and do is get every kid to keep his or her face clean, and that's actually a really difficult message to try to sell, so I was thrilled when Liam and Aaron said that they'd love to help," he said.
"The treatment involves really focusing on keeping the kids' faces clean because the infection gets spread from the infected eye secretions and dirty faces. Then we use an antibiotic that the family needs to take about every six to 12 months which reduces the level of infection and the clean face stops the spread.
"I am sure that if we apply the knowledge and the techniques that we know work that we can eliminate trachoma in five or six years.
"There are a number of countries like Ghana, Morocco, Iran and Oman that in the last five to 10 years have specifically eliminated trachoma, so if they can do it, clearly we can do it here in Australia."
