esavvymom
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Hello friends.....
If you could spend just 1 minute per day to change the lives of someone who suffers from a rare disease- all from the comfort of your home and the click of a button, would you?
Recently, my neighbor and I got talking. He lives a road over from me, so I don't see him very often, but I found out that he has a little boy who suffers from a VERY RARE genetic disorder that causes his body to basically become paralyzed or partially, for no apparent reason. It's like his brain "short-circuits". Less than 650 people in the WORLD suffer from this. He has posted a video on YouTube showing what little Matthew's days are like.
He is asking for my help in spreading the word to everyone I know. PEPSI has a program called "Refresh" in which they give away grant money for various ideas. He is in the running for $250,000 towards finding a cure. Since it is such a rare disease, you can imagine how little gets put towards it. I can't imagine having a sick child knowing that little is being done to help him.
Voting on Pepsi Refresh is ONE PER DAY....so if you can please take the 1 minute(less than) per day to click on the button and vote for Matthew?
VOTE ONLINE TODAY (you'll need to create a free account to login, but for this little boy- I thought it was worth it)
(voting has ended- they WON!)
You can vote once per day through November. I've set it as my Home Page so I can vote each day when I log in...or set a calendar reminder. You can also vote from your mobile phone. Text* 104112 to Pepsi (73774) *Standard text messaging rates apply. SO that gives him 2 votes per day.
I don't have a FB page, but if you think it is a worthy cause, please use their FB Links to share the project with others.
Thank you so much!
Because this is one-per-day voting...I'll bump this periodically.
If you could spend just 1 minute per day to change the lives of someone who suffers from a rare disease- all from the comfort of your home and the click of a button, would you?
Recently, my neighbor and I got talking. He lives a road over from me, so I don't see him very often, but I found out that he has a little boy who suffers from a VERY RARE genetic disorder that causes his body to basically become paralyzed or partially, for no apparent reason. It's like his brain "short-circuits". Less than 650 people in the WORLD suffer from this. He has posted a video on YouTube showing what little Matthew's days are like.
He is asking for my help in spreading the word to everyone I know. PEPSI has a program called "Refresh" in which they give away grant money for various ideas. He is in the running for $250,000 towards finding a cure. Since it is such a rare disease, you can imagine how little gets put towards it. I can't imagine having a sick child knowing that little is being done to help him.
Voting on Pepsi Refresh is ONE PER DAY....so if you can please take the 1 minute(less than) per day to click on the button and vote for Matthew?
VOTE ONLINE TODAY (you'll need to create a free account to login, but for this little boy- I thought it was worth it)
(voting has ended- they WON!)
You can vote once per day through November. I've set it as my Home Page so I can vote each day when I log in...or set a calendar reminder. You can also vote from your mobile phone. Text* 104112 to Pepsi (73774) *Standard text messaging rates apply. SO that gives him 2 votes per day.
I don't have a FB page, but if you think it is a worthy cause, please use their FB Links to share the project with others.
Thank you so much!
Because this is one-per-day voting...I'll bump this periodically.
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