April MS Walk Looking for Volunteers
Saturday, March 31, 2012
The Rhode Island Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is anticipating a great response to Walk MS on Sunday, April 15th, and is seeking volunteers to help at all three walk locations across the state.
Volunteers are essential to making the event a success and people are needed for activities such as registration and prize distribution in Bristol, Narragansett, and Providence. The organization also needs volunteers to staff the rest stops along the walk routes from approximately 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Time to volunteer
If you would like to be part of the MS community and help inspire those around you, please volunteer your time. Go to www.walkMSrhodeisland.org and click on Event Details in the left column. By joining the MS Society April 15, you will be helping to make a difference in the lives of those with MS. The National MS Society funds more MS research, provides more services to people with MS, offers more professional education, and furthers more advocacy efforts than any other MS organization in the world.
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Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system, interrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. 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 a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. and over 2.1 million worldwide.
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