myFace is Proud To Host Races For Faces 2015!

New York City – Please join us on Sunday, July 26th at 9:00 AM for a fun-filled family day in beautiful Riverside Park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan to raise money and awareness for people living with facial anomalies. We will have fun for children of all ages including exciting games, family activities and raffles, arts and crafts, and many surprises!

We will walk through beautiful Riverside Park starting at the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial at 85th Street, walk up to 101st Street, go down on the waterfront and walk back to 83rd Street where we go back into the Park for closing ceremonies.

Riverside Park: Registration at 9 am

Bring your family, friends and dogs and walk to raise awareness of those living with facial anomalies!

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Patient Anibel with myFace Executive Director, Carolyn Spector, at Races for Faces 2014

Anibel, 9, (pictured above) was born with Nager syndrome and is receiving probono treatment in New York City, at the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center, funded by myFace. Anibel will be one of the many children afflicted with a craniofacial condition walking at this year’s Races for Faces on July 26th. Nager Syndrome displays several or all of the following characteristics: underdevelopment of the cheek and jaw area, down-sloping of the opening of the eyes, lack or absence of the lower eyelashes, kidney and/or stomach reflux, hammer toes, shortened soft palate, lack of development of the internal and external ear, possible cleft palate, underdevelopment or absence of the thumb, hearing loss, and shortened forearms, as well as poor movement in the elbow. Children like Anibel receive numerous invasive and complex surgeries by the age of 9. Aside from dealing with all of the physical and mental strains that come with living with a craniofacial condition, children like Anibel suffer from bullying, as well as shunning by their peers and often by teachers and/or other adults who feel inadequate to care for a child born with and/or living with a facial deformity. Anibel was a victim of bullying this past school year. Often with tears in her eyes, Anibel’s mom, Lenica, recounts the moment in which her daughter came home from school after being called a “freak” by schoolmates during a game of connect-four. “It was very sad moment”, tells Lenica “but situations like these are important for us as a family so we can learn to educate others and raise awareness for children like Anibel.” Lenica and her daughter Anibel will walk at this year’s Races for Faces in the hopes that others hear Anibel’s story. In Lenica’s words, “We hope that all of our family and friends walk this year and get involved in raising awareness for the craniofacially afflicted community – it’s time everyone hears our story.”

WHY WE WALK
OUR PATIENTS

  • 49% are age six or younger; 36% ages 6-18; 15% ages 19 or older
  • 70% are from families living at or below the poverty level and receive treatment at little or no charge
  • 95% remain in care that spans an entire childhood costing into the hundreds of thousands

We walk to support our friends and family born with a craniofacial condition
We walk to raise awareness and to help spread the myFace mission.

This year our goal is to raise $150,000!

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