Please Help Us Fight Cystic Fibrosis
We lost our cousin Sophie Temou to cystic fibrosis in 1996. However, the prognosis for CF sufferers gets better every year thanks to advances in medical science and thanks to the money raised by events such as the CF Great Strides Walk. We've named our team Sophie's Striders in her memory.
That's Sophie in a photo "taken one year ago".
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We participated in the CF Great Strides walk at the Toronto Zoo on Sunday, May 29, 2011. Thanks to your donations, we raised over $4,000! Here are some photos of our day at the zoo.
Thank you for your support.
About CF
Cystic fibrosis (CF), which affects the lungs and the digestive system, is the most common fatal genetic (or inherited) disease affecting Canadian children and young adults.
All money raised will support the work of Cystic Fibrosis Canada (formally known as the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation). Cystic Fibrosis Canada funds CF research and it provides supplementary support for CF treatment programs at 41 Canadian CF clinics and five transplant centres.
Thanks to your donations, in recent years the number of adults with CF in Canada has surpassed the number of children. This is a long way from the 1960s, when most children with the disease were not expected to live long enough to attend kindergarten.