7th Annual Putnam MS Walk

Southern New York Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society will host Walk MS 2010 at the Carmel Fire Department on Sunday, April 18. The fully accessible three mile route will take participants through the community and past Lake Gleneida.  Check-in begins at 8am and the Walk MS starts at 9am.

More than 11,000 walkers are expected to participate in seven locations across the region on April 17 and 18 to help raise more than $3 million in support of direct services for people affected by MS in the five boroughs of NYC and in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange and Sullivan counties. Fundraising dollars will also support national MS research to find a cure for this chronic disease of the central nervous system.

REGISTRATION:
Visit www.walkMSnyc.org, call 212-463-9791 or email walkms@msnyc.org.

About Walk MS
Established in l989 as the Society’s only simultaneous national fundraising event and key awareness building weekend, Walk MS attracted 42,000 participants at 42 sites to raise $4 million. Since that time, the event has grown to attract over 200,000 walkers in nearly 600 locations covering all 50 states who in 2008 raised more than $61 million for the MS cause.  The typical route extends three to 12 miles and draws as many as 100 to 6,000 walkers each. Last year alone, nearly 150,000 walkers joined teams to support the effort. Over 2 million consumers made pledges. Walk MS was founded as a means of reaffirming the Society’s commitment to the 400,000 Americans living with MS and assist them in taking a proactive role to create a world free of MS while educating the public to its challenges.

About the New York City – Southern NY Chapter
The New York City – Southern New York Chapter of the National MS Society is committed to helping the 10,000 people living with multiple sclerosis in the five boroughs and Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange and Sullivan counties continue moving their lives forward. The chapter raises funds locally to support the Society’s critical research initiatives and to provide hundreds of comprehensive support services and educational programs for people living with MS, their family and friends. Visit www.MSnyc.org for more information.

About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
MS stops people from moving. The National MS Society exists to make sure it doesn’t by helping each person address the challenges of living with MS. In 2009 alone, through its national office and 50 state network of chapters, the Society devoted more than $132 million to programs that enhanced more than one million lives. To move closer to a world free of MS, the Society also invested nearly $36 million to support 375 research projects around the world.

Early and ongoing treatment with an FDA-approved therapy can make a difference for people with multiple sclerosis. To learn about the options, individuals should talk to their health care professionals and contact the National MS Society at www.nationalMSsociety.org or 1-800-344-4867.     

About Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis interrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body and it stops people from moving. Every hour in the United States someone is newly 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 a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with more than twice as many women as men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S., and 2.5 million worldwide.

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