How to Get Involved With the March of Dimes

Through fundraising and research, the March of Dimes campaigns for the fight against birth defects.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Yellow Pages
• Telephones
• Internet Access
• Computers

1. Send money through the online donation center at www.wdsg.com/gift.htm.

2. Participate in the Mother's March by collecting money and distributing educational literature. For information, connect to [e-mail].

3. Get your business to sponsor the March of Dimes by writing to [e-mail] or by calling [phone].

4. Join in the many March of Dimes special events. You can support a good cause while you're having fun at activities such as golf tournaments and the Pick-A-Pumpkin program.

5. Volunteer at your local chapter.

6. Participate in Walk America to raise money for the cause.

7. For more information, call toll-free, (888) MODIMES.

on 8/8/2006 With the stated goal of preventing birth defects, the March of Dimes collects millions of dollars in donations annually. But few donors realize that their gifts help to fund painful experiments on animals. The March of Dimes has funneled millions of dollars into laboratory tests that use animals, and every dollar spent to harm animals is a dollar that could have been used to help people.

March of Dimes experimenters have:

- sewn the eyes of newborn kittens, then killed the kittens after they had endured a year of blindness.

- strapped social, intelligent primates into restraint chairs for days at a time.

- damaged the brains of ferrets by cutting open their skulls and injecting chemicals into their brains.

- administered alcohol, nicotine, and cocaine to pregnant animals, even though people suffering from addiction to these substances can be observed in hospitals.

- forced pregnant sheep to give birth prematurely, then experimented on the lungs of their lambs.

While infants of all species are capable of experiencing pain, human physiology is different from that of other species, and tests on animals tell us little about what may protect people.

Please ask the president of the March of Dimes, Jennifer Howse, to stop funding experiments on animals, and donate only to charities that spend donations responsibly and don't fund animal studies, such as Easter Seals and Birth Defect Research for Children.

on 11/22/2005 Set up your own personal March of Dimes website at www.walkamerica.org Raise money through online donations. People can contribute with a check, credit card or PayPal. It's so easy!