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Galesburg Team Hope Walk

September 18, 2021 @ 10:00 am

The Huntington’s Disease Society of America’s (HDSA) Illinois Chapter will be hosting the Galesburg Team Hope Walk on Saturday, September 18 at 10:00 AM: Lake Storey Park. Team Hope is HDSA’s largest national grassroots fundraising event, which takes place in over 100 cities across the U.S. and has raised more than $20 million for Huntington’s disease since its inception in 2007.

Huntington’s disease is a brain disease that is passed down in families from generation to generation with symptoms described as having ALS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s – simultaneously. Today, there are approximately 41,000 symptomatic Americans and more than 200,000 at-risk of inheriting the disease.

Press Release link: https://illinois.hdsa.org/news/galesburg-team-hope-walk-to-support-hdsa

Event link: https://illinois.hdsa.org/about/galesburg-team-hope-walk

Details

Date:
September 18, 2021
Time:
10:00 am