August 2, 2007

• This Labor Day do something special…help others.

  

  Since I was 10 years old I have been involved with the MDA telethon. I watched the telethon grow from a single broadcast out of New York to a world wide broadcast of today.

  Jerry Lewis is the chairman of MDA and has been hosting the telethon since its inception. Its not about all the celebrities who donate their time, talent. It’s about your neighbor down the block who just found out he has ALS, its about your little girls best friend at school who was just diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy or it could even be someone in your own family that may have a neuromuscular disease.

  Since 1966 Jerry Lewis has helped raise approximately US$2 billion for neuromuscular patient care and research.

  On his 40th Labor Day telethon in 2005, Lewis added Salvation Army fundraising (for Hurricane Katrina) to his usual MDA fundraising, though he also encouraged viewers to give to the American Red Cross. He has also hosted the 1987 and 1991 editions of the French Muscular Dystrophy Téléthon, where he is known for his work against this disease.

  So if you aren’t doing anything special this Labor Day why not make a donation or even better look into being a volunteer, its a great job that I highly recommend.

  

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