After Erica Destache was diagnosed with myotonic muscular dystrophy, her family raised a whopping $20,000 for their local MDA Muscle Walk.
Martha Moore Gomez already has a full schedule as a busy human resources executive for a homebuilding company Mattamy Homes. Work travel takes her throughout North America, but when it comes to volunteering for MDA, she says, “You make time for what’s important to you, and this is what’s important to me.”
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The deafening roar of thousands of motorcycles is music to Julie Harris’s ears. To her, that rumble means one thing: “Hope.” This weekend, the Reading Fairgrounds in Eastern Pennsylvania will be filled with Julie’s favorite sounds. That’s because the 30th Annual MDA Ride for Life is speeding into town.
In MDA, Destiny found the support and community she needed to live fully as a 12-year-old, as a college student and now as a mom to two kids. That’s why she’s been a passionate Muscle Walk fundraiser for the past 15 years, whether she was well enough to walk in the event or not. That’s why she’ll continue participating.
Nearly forty-five years ago, after John and Lois Washburn’s two eldest children were diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the couple began volunteering with MDA and haven’t looked back.
Longtime MDA Summer Camp volunteer Todd Dewey shares why this will be his 28th summer giving back to the organization he loves.
Theresa Cox is committed in both her professional and personal life to working with people living with muscular dystrophy and related neuromuscular diseases.
From MDA Summer Camp to MDA Team Momentum, Robb Valentyn has been volunteering with MDA for ten plus years and doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon.
Almost exactly one year ago, in the spring of 2016, Kade McCann learned he had myotonic dystrophy. For this young athlete, the diagnosis stopped him in his tracks.
