SMA Awareness Month: Ideas for Raising Awareness

August is Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Awareness Month. To help spread the word about the disease and raise much-needed funds for research into treatments and therapies, Cure SMA has come up with a list of ideas to help you get started:

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• Hold an awareness day with your local sports team
• Reach out to local celebrities and politicians to ask for proclamations or statements
• Reach out to local newspapers, and TV and radio stations
• Become an advocate
• Join your local Cure SMA chapter and volunteer
• Host a fundraising event
• Hold a group candle lighting to honor those who have lost their battle with the disease
• Spread the word on social media

Throughout the month, Cure SMA will also be hosting a social media outreach campaign. The organization is asking people to post photographs on Facebook of someone who inspires them to raise awareness for SMA, or a picture of them taking part in a fundraising event using the hashtag #cureSMA or tag Cure SMA.

You can also update your profile picture for your social media accounts with a Cure SMA twibbon.

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