Sickle Cell Association of South Louisiana hosts 2022 Ryan’s Run/Walk

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – September is Nationwide Sickle Cell Consciousness Month. In keeping with the Louisiana Division of Well being roughly 3,000 individuals reside with the illness in our state.

A whole bunch of individuals confirmed as much as the annual Ryan’s 5k Run/Stroll. An occasion created by the Sickle Cell Affiliation of South Louisiana to assist sickle cell warriors with housing, transportation, academic workshops, and children summer time camps.

Organizers say the purpose of Ryan’s 5K Run/Stroll is to tell individuals of sickle cell and encourage them to do their very own advocating.

“It’s simply a chance to 1 make clear the people who take care of sickle cell every day. That goes by way of the sickle cell disaster but in addition builds consciousness and raises as a lot cash as we presumably can to proceed the analysis and proceed doing the work to assist these which are affected,” stated Ryan Clark, organizer.

Maronique Williams is the mom of 2-year-old Queen Corridor, the ambassador of this 12 months’s occasion.

“I would like them to discover a remedy as a result of I’ve 4 youngsters and she or he’s the one one which has the illness,” stated Maronique Williams, mom of 2022 ambassador.

As somebody who lives with sickle cell every single day, Williams says she desires the world to know that the illness is actual.

“The docs informed us we have been enjoying russian roulette, as a result of it’s one out of 4 and she or he’s the fourth,” stated Williams.

Many family members share the identical hope, that there’ll in the future be a everlasting remedy.

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