Help Ms. Ava and others with SMA!

Please take a minute to vote prior to January 22nd! http://www.voteforsma.com/

Little Miss Ava is a friend of mine with SMA. You can read more about Miss Ava here: http://mindyharmon.blogspot.com/2009/08/baby-ava-needs-your-help.html

They are so close to gaining additional funding! Every vote helps!

- VOTE -
GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION
in the Chase Community Giving campaign on Facebook

- VoteForSMA.com -

• SMA -- Spinal Muscular Atrophy -- KILLS more young children than ANY other inherited disease -- 50% die by their 1st birthday, 90% by their 2nd.
• 1 in 40 people UNKNOWINGLY carries the SMA gene -- few have any known family history.
• SMA is degenerative and terminal. Although born healthy, babies eventually lose the ability to walk, sit, eat, breathe, and even swallow. The mind is NEVER impacted and children with SMA are bright and social.
• There is currently NO treatment and NO cure, but there is HOPE!
• The National Institutes of Health (NIH) coined SMA as the disease "CLOSEST to TREATMENT".
• Researchers say a CURE is possible in a few years -- IF given adequate funding.
• SMA is considered a "model" disease and many scientist believe it is a "gateway" to answers for countless other diseases, including: ALS/Lou Gehrig's, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, the muscular dystrophies, and even some forms of cancer.

YOU can help CURE a disease.
SAVE children. CHANGE the FUTURE.
Help CURE the #1 genetic killer of babies!

VOTE: Gwendolyn Strong Foundation
Jan. 15th to 22nd

http://www.voteforsma.com/

For more information or to donate visit:

http://www.gwendolynstrongfoundation.org/

Be part of a Miracle