For Immediate Release
Rare Disease Organization to Provide Adaptive Cycling Equipment to Deserving Applicants
Downingtown, Penn.,(April 8, 2013) – The Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA),an organization dedicated to accelerating research leading to treatments and a cure for Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) has issued a “call for applications” for the 2013 Ataxian Athlete Initiative (AAI).
The AAI is a grant program that provides funding for equipment that enables eligible inpiduals with Ataxia to start or further develop their abilities in adaptive cycling. The AAI has empowered 14 inpiduals through adaptive cycling since 2009.
The AAI is managed by Ride Ataxia, a FARA program with a mission to promote active lifestyles among Ataxia patients through nationwide cycling events designed to raise awareness and much-needed research funds for FA. FA is a rare, progressive, life-shortening neuromuscular disease for which there is currently no cure.