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Show your support for the scleroderma community in Manitoba and participate in the 7th Annual walk for Scleroderma.
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Walk, cycle, or run any or every day in June and help us together reach our goal of 2021 km – the distance from Winnipeg to Churchill and back!
This is our most important event of the year, raising awareness and critical funds for research and patient support.
Plan to walk, cycle or run VIRTUALLY with us until June 29th, World Scleroderma Day.
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Scleroderma Manitoba challenges you to make a difference through active participation!
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Register to walk
Don't walk alone - join or create a team
Donate to a participant or team
How can I help?
Here’s how family and friends can make a real difference to the scleroderma patient in your life.
Be proactive
The Annual Walk for Scleroderma MB is our major fund-raising event for the year.
Being a pro-active participant and fundraiser will help to take some of the fundraising pressure from the shoulders of your scleroderma patient.
In 2021 Scleroderma Manitoba challenges you to pro-actively participate in this important event in honour of the scleroderma patient in your life.
Reach out
Reaching out to include your network of friends and acquaintances will widen the group of potential supporters and donors and will greatly help to increase awareness of scleroderma.
Funds raised pay for patient support initiatives in Manitoba, as well as research into treatments and further understanding of scleroderma with the aim of better outcomes for scleroderma patients, and ultimately a cure.
Seven ways you can help
- Commit to putting your runners on and walking! Register to walk at Canada Helps.
- Create a TEAM by inviting others to join you.
- Reach out to your network; invite them to donate or walk too! All the tools you need will be available on the Canada Helps site.
- Help to spread the word! Use your social media accounts to invite active participation or donations.
- Use social media to increase awareness of the challenges of scleroderma- another purpose of mounting an annual walk is to increase awareness about scleroderma in the general community, which leads to better treatments, more funds for research, and better understanding and support of those who are living with scleroderma. Scleroderma Manitoba will provide daily snippets of information you can use in your Instagram, snapchat, Facebook or twitter posts to create awareness of this rare disease. (Check out sclerodermamanitoba.com/walk).
- If you know a scleroderma patient who is walking, offer to walk with them, and help spread the word.
- Donate! Even if you are unable to participate in the walk yourself, consider donating to more than one walk participant.
Stepping up your walk participation honours the patient in your life by acknowledging their struggles, their courage, and their fight.
You will help others learn about scleroderma, and you may learn some new things yourself!
Most importantly, you will show your willingness to walk with us each and every day.
“I’m uncomfortable asking…”
We are all uncomfortable asking people for financial donations. But its important to remember that most people are happy to help if they are able, when they know the importance of an issue in your life.
Often people want to help, but do not know how. Scleroderma Manitoba has gathered resourses and tools to help you with your fundraising campaign:
Fundraising Toolkit
Fundraising Tips for Participants
Sample scripts and templates for fundraisers
Walk 2021 paper Pledge Form
