Torrelle Howard is fundraising
Support Torrelle's Run for Lupus Awareness
Hello! My name is Torrelle Howard and for the past few years, for my birthday I have asked people to donate to my fundraiser for the Lupus Foundation of America
The Lupus Foundation of America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to research around the autoimmune disease, Lupus.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that causes your immune system to attack otherwise healthy organs and tissues in your body. This usually causes inflammation throughout your body that can affect your joints, skins and can affect recovery from other illnesses like the common cold or the flu.
My mother currently suffers from Lupus and while thankfully she’s still able to live a very full and meaningful lifestyle, she does still deal with issues constantly each day. Fatigue, frequent aches and pains, biweekly infusions and prolonged recovery from various other illnesses and injuries are just some of the issues she has to deal with everyday due to this disease.
Any research that can be done to help to diagnose this disease earlier, relieve symptoms of this disease or to hopefully one day cure people of this disease is research I wholeheartedly support!
I’ve fundraised for this cause in the past HOWEVER, this year I’m fundraising differently in two separate ways.
1. I’m using GoFundMe this year to make the fundraiser more accessible to people (people would have issues donating in previous years because they did not have a Facebook account, so hopefully this helps)
2. I’m adding a physical challenge for myself (and for y’all’s entertainment) as an incentive. The challenge is that I will be running a certain distance based on the amount of money that is donated to my fundraiser. For each $.10 (ten cents) donated I will run 1 meter, so a dollar will get me to run 10 meters, $10 will get me to run 100 meters and $160 will get me to run 1600 meters or roughly one mile.
I’m still working out the details on everything (where I’ll run this, when, if I’ll be able to livestream this as proof and for everyone’s entertainment, if I should add a cap on the distance for this I have not ran in about a half a decade and I value my health, etc.) but the plan is for me to fundraise through May 31st and then run soon after (I’m thinking the weekend after my birthday. I feel like it’ll be fun/funny and it’ll help out an amazing cause!
Thank you for taking the time to read this and I really appreciate any donations made to this fundraiser!!
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