Krystal Avon Walk for Breast Cancer PledgePage
In summer My dad and I will be walking nearly 40 miles over the a weekend as participants the Avon Walks for Breast Cancer. Once again we are honored to be walking with thousands of others that have made the same courageous commitment to help raise awareness and funding for this devastating disease.
This probably isn't the first time you've heard something like this from us and it won't be the last. Why do we continue to push ourselves to participate in these events? Why do we keep talking about breast cancer? Why do we continue to fundraise and train? Why? Because when we first started participating in these events we only knew a few people that had been touched by breast cancer. Now we know more than we can count. The numbers are not improving. The more people we talk to and the more money we raise to fund the fight against breast cancer, the sooner the numbers start turning around and the sooner a cause and a cure are found. We truly believe that finding the cure to one cancer will be the key to unraveling the mysteries of many cancers. Too many people have had their lives torn apart by this disease. We refuse to sit idly by and watch it happen. So why do we continue to do all this? Because we can.
This year we signed up for the Chicago Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. We will be walking 26.2 miles on Saturday, then 13.1 miles on Sunday for a grand total of almost 40 miles. To participate in this event we must raise a minimum of $1750 each - that's $3500 for both of us. YIKES! The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade will manage the money raised from these events. The mission of the Crusade is to fund access to finding a cure for breast cancer with a focus on medically underserved women. The funds are awarded to medical research into the possible causes, prevention, treatment and cure of breast cancer; clinical care for breast cancer patients as well as support services and education. One of the things that attracted me to the Crusade is that they are looking at the whole picture, cause, cure, care and support.
This is where you come in. We can't do this alone. To participate in these events we are required to raise a minimum of $3500. $3500 is merely a drop in the bucket of what is needed in this fight but it is still far beyond our personal means. I want to make it as easy as possible to support our efforts. You have two options - go to www.avonwalk.org, click on "Sponsor A Walker" and follow the directions or you can just mail a check made out to "Avon Walk for Breast Cancer"directly to me and let me do all the ugly paperwork for you. Either way your gift will be appreciated more than we can possibly tell you.
Before we go we have one more favor to ask of you. After you get done reading this (and filling out your pledge check) pick up the phone and call the four women that are closest to you. Ask them if they have been doing their monthly exams and if they have had their mammogram. This simple question has the potential of saving their life. You see, right now one million American women are walking around with undiagnosed breast cancer. These are lives that can be saved with the proper testing and treatment, but they need to ask. Your question may prompt a loved one to check and find out early enough to save her life and isn't that what this is all about?
Thank you for your generous support.
Krystal & Jerry Crowder
Email: mickeym_19@hotmail.com
This probably isn't the first time you've heard something like this from us and it won't be the last. Why do we continue to push ourselves to participate in these events? Why do we keep talking about breast cancer? Why do we continue to fundraise and train? Why? Because when we first started participating in these events we only knew a few people that had been touched by breast cancer. Now we know more than we can count. The numbers are not improving. The more people we talk to and the more money we raise to fund the fight against breast cancer, the sooner the numbers start turning around and the sooner a cause and a cure are found. We truly believe that finding the cure to one cancer will be the key to unraveling the mysteries of many cancers. Too many people have had their lives torn apart by this disease. We refuse to sit idly by and watch it happen. So why do we continue to do all this? Because we can.
This year we signed up for the Chicago Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. We will be walking 26.2 miles on Saturday, then 13.1 miles on Sunday for a grand total of almost 40 miles. To participate in this event we must raise a minimum of $1750 each - that's $3500 for both of us. YIKES! The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade will manage the money raised from these events. The mission of the Crusade is to fund access to finding a cure for breast cancer with a focus on medically underserved women. The funds are awarded to medical research into the possible causes, prevention, treatment and cure of breast cancer; clinical care for breast cancer patients as well as support services and education. One of the things that attracted me to the Crusade is that they are looking at the whole picture, cause, cure, care and support.
This is where you come in. We can't do this alone. To participate in these events we are required to raise a minimum of $3500. $3500 is merely a drop in the bucket of what is needed in this fight but it is still far beyond our personal means. I want to make it as easy as possible to support our efforts. You have two options - go to www.avonwalk.org, click on "Sponsor A Walker" and follow the directions or you can just mail a check made out to "Avon Walk for Breast Cancer"directly to me and let me do all the ugly paperwork for you. Either way your gift will be appreciated more than we can possibly tell you.
Before we go we have one more favor to ask of you. After you get done reading this (and filling out your pledge check) pick up the phone and call the four women that are closest to you. Ask them if they have been doing their monthly exams and if they have had their mammogram. This simple question has the potential of saving their life. You see, right now one million American women are walking around with undiagnosed breast cancer. These are lives that can be saved with the proper testing and treatment, but they need to ask. Your question may prompt a loved one to check and find out early enough to save her life and isn't that what this is all about?
Thank you for your generous support.
Krystal & Jerry Crowder
Email: mickeym_19@hotmail.com