The paralysed are standing up

Our goal is to make sure that money that is raised in the name of cure, is spent on cure, and we hope to increase the participation of spinal cord injured people from all over the world in the Rick Hansen Foundation’s stated goal of a cure for spinal cord injuries.

We feel that as an organization dedicated to ‘a world without paralysis after spinal cord injury’ RHF can play an even greater role in curing paralysis. RHF is one of the biggest, most well financed organizations dedicated to spinal cord injury in the world and because of this could unite the international community in achieving a cure in the near future.

We don’t want to just donate and cheer, we want to play a role in achieving Rick Hansen’s dream that started twenty five years ago.

The letter, as it was sent, can be seen below. And everyone will be informed of their answer.

At 3:30PM on Friday, 12 August 2011 (Vancouver time) a letter was sent to the Rick Hansen Foundation (RHF) from five spinal cord injured people in Canada, Italy, Japan, and Spain.

The point of the letter is to ask for direct talks between the foundation and people in wheelchairs to discuss RHF’s past, present, and future commitment to a cure for spinal cord injury.