This Friday, May 5th, is the fourth annual Join Our Boys Wear Orange Day, which aims to raise awareness about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and the people of Roscommon are encouraged to get involved.
Join Our Boys is a community organisation which was established in 2014 to raise awareness about DMD and to raise funds to support the three Roscommon brothers Archie, George and Isaac, all of whom have DMD. May 1st was George and Isaac’s seventh birthday and that is why the event takes place at this time of year.
The aim of Wear Orange Day is to raise awareness of DMD, with a view to finding a treatment and cure and donations to the Join Our Boys fund are welcome. This fund is to support the boys, and to awareness raising to bring about an improvement in DMD services in Ireland. There are a number of treatments for DMD in the pipeline, and Join Our Boys want to make sure every child in Ireland can have access to effective treatments.
Join Our Boys invites all readers to follow us on Facebook, twitter and Instagram, and to use social media to spread the word about DMD. For further information and updates check out our website www.joinourboys.org