Get Walking in Aventura on Sunday to Cure MS

AVENTURA, FL — Nearly 500 people are expected to turn out on Sunday to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society through Walk MS: Aventura.

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Organizers hope that the Miami area event will raise more than $90,000 and help surpass last year's nationwide total of $50 million by nearly 300,000 participants at 550 similar events across the country.

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The National MS Society says it is closing in on a grand total of more than $1 billion since the event was first launched.

“Walk MS is a joyous gathering with a wonderful ‘we’re in this together’ feeling,” observed Cyndi Zagieboylo, president and CEO of the National MS Society. “Every participant, volunteer, donor and sponsor is helping to drive us toward this exciting $1 billion milestone. Together, we are accelerating progress in making life-changing breakthroughs so that each person with MS can live her or his best life.”

The Aventura event is sponsored by Genzyme. The national sponsor is Genentech.

Check-in opens at 7 a.m with the walk set to start at 8:30 a.m. at the Northeast Dade-Aventura Branch Library, 2930 Aventura Blvd.

For information, visit walkMS.org, call 855-372-1331 or email fundraisingsupport@nmss.org.

Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis.

Most of the more than 2.3 million people who suffer from MS worldwide are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men affected.

For more information about multiple sclerosis and the National MS Society go to nationalMSsociety.org or call 800-344-4867.

Photo of the 2016 Walk MS: Aventura courtesy of the National MS Society