walkers “join the movement”
Posted on 24. Feb, 2011 by Carrie in op-ed
words > MID AMERICA CHAPTER of THE NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
The National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society, Mid America Chapter will hold three Wichita area walks for Walk MS this April and May. Community members from Hutchinson, Wichita and Garden City will walk to create a world free of MS this spring.
Chapterwide, the Mid America Chapter will host 23 walks. More than 7,000 walkers are expected to come and raise the overall goal of $851,000. Funds raised will support direct services for more than 8,000 people living with MS and their families in the Mid America Chapter area and research to find a cure for this chronic disease of the central nervous system.
Walk MS is a rallying point, a time and a place to stand together and to be together — to help raise critical funds that support cutting edge research, drive change through advocacy, facilitate professional education and provide programs and services to help people with MS move their lives forward. People can participate in Walk MS individually or as a team. Volunteers are also needed.
WHAT & WHY:
Walk MS to benefit the National MS Society, Mid America Chapter.
WHEN & WHERE:
Walk MS: Hutchinson on April 16 at Hutchinson Zoo.
Walk MS: Wichita on April 30 at Sedgwick County Park.
Walk MS: Garden City on May 7 at Lee Richardson Zoo.
PARTICIPATION/ VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION:
Visit walk.MSmidamerica.org, call 1-800-344-4867, or e-mail midamericachapter@nmss.org.
About Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis interrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body and stops people from moving. Every hour in the United States, someone is diagnosed with MS — an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to an MS-free world. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with more than twice as many women as men affected by the disease. More than 400,000 people in the United States and 2.5 million worldwide live with MS.
