This below letter was sent by fax and email after reading information about the Rick Hansen Foundation's (RHF) plans to start lobbying to secure government funding for the next five years.
Our goal is to make sure that there is a commitment by RHF to fund basic and translational research for a cure for chronic spinal cord injury.
The signatories to this letter all want RHF to be successful in their bid to secure funding, but refuse to idly sit by and allow words and phrases like 'cure' and 'a world without paralysis after spinal cord injury' be used to raise funds if there is no effort to fund research for a cure for chronic spinal cord injury, or at least a statement from RHF saying that they do not support research for a cure for chronic spinal cord injury.
We who are currently living with spinal cord injury and our supporters will not be left behind and told to shut up, sit down, clap our hands, and pass the donation bucket.
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