Local couple celebrates fundraising success
Dinner in the Dark in Turner Valley
Calgary, August 12, 2011 – On Saturday, September 10th, Evan Reichert and Kim Tuck Reichert hosted 90 enthusiastic participants at the Flare & Derrick Community Hall in Turner Valley, Alberta, for a “Dinner in the Dark."
The fundraising event had guests dining in the dark to mimic being without sight for an evening. The evening was a resounding success, raising $6,225.00 in support of the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) and sight-saving research.
Congratulations and many thanks to Kim and Evan for their outsanding hard work, and to their families and friends whose generous dontations will help to find treatments and a cure for retinal diseases like the one that Evan has.
The fundraising event had guests dining in the dark to mimic being without sight for an evening. The evening was a resounding success, raising $6,225.00 in support of the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) and sight-saving research.
Congratulations and many thanks to Kim and Evan for their outsanding hard work, and to their families and friends whose generous dontations will help to find treatments and a cure for retinal diseases like the one that Evan has.
Last year, 28-year-old Evan Reichert was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic form of blindness. Evan works as a heavy-equipment operator, and losing his sight to this incurable disease may leave him without the means to support his young family. To better understand the impacts of this condition, Evan and his wife Kim are learning everything they can about retinitis pigmentosa to better adjust their lifestyle to the effects of Evan’s deteriorating sight.
Evan and Kim’s ophthalmologist referred them to the Foundation Fighting Blindness and the innovative research the Foundation funds to find the causes, treatments and cures for retinitis pigmentosa and related retinal eye diseases. Ground-breaking research currently taking place gives hope for cures within Evan’s lifetime.
The Dinner in the Dark featured a silent auction and a delicious dinner in the company of family and friends living in Turner Valley and surrounding communities. For more information about the Foundation Fighting Blindness, vision research or how you can get involved in fundraising for the FFB, please visit: www.ffb.ca.
