Coming Together for One Cause

Tuesday, November 17, was the March of Dimes World Prematurity Awareness Day.  To raise awareness of prematurity issues, the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) from Alexander High School, Chapel Hill High School and, Douglas County High School joined with the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) members from West Georgia Technical College in wearing purple.
As students went about their day on Tuesday, they were asked, “Why is there so many people with purple on today?” This gave students the opportunity to share with others about the issue of helping care for and prevent prematurity. According to the March of Dimes, 380,000 babies are born too soon every year in the Unites States and worldwide that number is 15 million. Many of these babies do not survive and those who do often have lifelong health issues. The March of Dimes is working to solve this problem.
The three organizations plan to make this an annual event where they join together to raise awareness for the issue of prematurity.

http://newsmomsneed.marchofdimes.org/?tag=prematurity-awareness-month

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