Help us reach our goal!
ayesha
Posted on February 21st, 2012
This year we need your help to reach out to new audiences.
We want to raise awareness of MS amongst people who don’t know about the disease, and share with them the many ways in which it effects the lives of millions all over the world.
To achieve this we need your help!
We want people to know that….
- There is no known cause or cure for MS and it lasts a lifetime
- MS symptoms usually start between the ages of 25 and 31
- People with MS have varying symptoms
The tools
Each week in the run up to World MS Day we will talk about one of the above messages. Social media status updates, videos, and posters will be available so that you can easily spread the word amongst your connections online, at school or University, and at work.
The online action
This year we are asking all of our amazing campaigners to upload their personal stories as digital postcards to the World MS Day 1000 faces website. The new site, which will go live in early May, will remain hidden to the public until World MS Day, when it will explode with postcards uploaded throughout the month.
Don’t forget to write your own postcard and to share it with your friends, family and colleagues online.
Engage with people face-to-face- it’s sure to have a big impact.
If you are planning an event in your town, workplace, or school, why not work with your MS Society or local community group to create real postcards, and display them for the public to see.
Be creative! Your postcard could be a written story about living with MS, or it could be a drawing, collage, or abstract interpretation of a feeling or symptom related to MS.
Don’t forget to take lots of photos and upload them to the World MS Day 2012 Flickr group. We can’t wait to see them!
Tagged: 2012, awareness raising, get involved, goals, messages, raising awareness, World MS Day
bonjour mes ami’(e)s je toujours avec vous , je vous encouage et je felicite l’equipe de recherche sur la sclerose en plques
corrdialement
CHAKALI AHMED
RUE DES MARTYRS DJELFA 17000 ALGERIA
Hi My Name is Theola Smyth i have been diagnosed with M.S for 7yrs I have had a few relapses in the past few years ,in the last year I have become very slow with my walking and M.S is now effecting me on a daily bases , I have great family support it was very hard in the beginning as we all had to learn about this new visitor who was not going to go away but thankfully now I can say I have M.S.but I try and it is very hard to make sure M.S does not have me
MS makes me sad and angry all at the same time. I watch my adult son struggle with it. It makes him slow down, it makes his walking difficult, it makes him depressed.
I wish I could take all of those leisions into my own brain….and free his.
Yet….HE makes me proud.
He is alive and fighting, the best he can
Everyone…join this fight with him. Do the best YOU can.
Lets ALL do the best we can.
I love these comments, they are so very cute but at the same time makes me very sad. I would love for someone or some group of people to be safe from this disease but it doesn’t look that way, does it…
North Pole here! Hello Equator! *waves frantically*
We’re everywhere now – and why is that? What changed?
So many questions, so few answers.
Hey, David! I live at the Equator and a number of others and we still have MS. And we were all born and raised here, too.
The only thing is that most countries around the equator are developing or under developed countries with very few resources to diagnose the problem and that is probably why people think it’s not there….
Supporters of people with MS have varying burdens.
Great and Small they do them all
Searching for a cure with few clues
No MS near Equator or North and South Poles = sun or ?
No MS in Japan = genetics or food or ?