The Fall Run for Babies 5K and family walk hosted by the MSU March of Dimes is taking place tomorrow, Oct. 10 to help raise money and awareness for birth defects associated with preterm births.
The 5K run and family walk is being held at Uncle John’s Cider Mill located in St. Johns, Mich., starting with registration at 8:30 a.m., for those who don't pre-register. The run portion of the event starts at 9 a.m. with the family walk portion starting 15 minutes afterward. A $20 registration fee is required to participate in this event.
All of the proceeds from the Fall Run for Babies will go to the families in Sparrow Hospital’s NICU or Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The NICU is a wing of the hospital specifically for premature newborn babies as well as sick full-term babies.
The March of Dimes is an organization that has been around since Franklin D. Roosevelt was president and originally poised its attention towards creating a polio vaccine. After the epidemic, its focus shifted towards helping mothers and premature babies through research and fundraising, MSU March of Dimes president, Megan Bushor said.
The MSU March of Dimes was established on MSU’s campus in the spring of 2008 and has been growing, advocating and fundraising steadily since its conception.
“A lot of it (funding) goes to helping moms have full term births, research on how to help those babies if they are born premature or if any of them have birth defects,” Bushor said.
Anyone interested in joining the MSU March of Dimes can attend their meetings which are held every other Tuesday located in Wells Hall room A224 at 6:15 p.m.
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