How to Help
If you want to help, contact our Volunteer Coordinator:
Here are a few ideas of how you can help get the word out about CCSVI and expedite testing and treatment options in Alberta.
1. Download the petitions, get lots of signatures, and send them in to your MLA or MP!
2. Register with Angioplasty For All to keep on top of the legal proceedings in Canada.
3. Donate to our efforts the following ways:
- Become a member: Application Form
- To contribute directly to the CCSVI Society of Calgary’s non profit organization and assist us with our fundraising, deposits are accepted at any Scotiabank under our name. Just let the teller know.
- You can also mail a cheque made out to the CCSVI Society of Calgary to:
CCSVI Calgary
PO Box 221
104, 1240 Kensington Rd. NW
Calgary, AB T2N 4X7
Please note we are strictly a non-profit and cannot issue tax receipts.
- To donate to research and equipment efforts and receive a tax receipt, click HERE, “Donate Now” and then choose CCSVI Training & Equipment.
4. Write a letter to Alberta’s Health Minister, Gene Zwozdesky.
Alberta Health and Wellness
Attention: The Honorable Gene Zwozdesky
P.O. Box 1360, Station Main
Edmonton, AB
T5J 2N3
Email: gene.zwozdesky@gov.ab.ca
5. Write to the Canadian Minister of Health: The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq
6. The Canada Health Act policy states “to protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers”. Let them know how they are violating their own policy: Report Canada Health Act violations
7. Write a letter to your MP. Locate your MP HERE.
8. Buy a T-shirt! – Show your support for CCSVI Research with these 100% cotton t-shirts in youth and adult sizes . Great for upcoming Rallies and Walks!
9. Come to a general meeting and meet the committee’s and join one that suits your interests:
- Fundraising
- Communications
- Take Action
- Political effort
- Research and documentation
- Something “new” – what are we missing?
I approached my administrator about sending a petition to each of our sites. I was told that I couldn’t do that but could give them a website to go to….
Is there an online petition? A site I could tell people to go to to sign the petition.
Look at the top of this page (below the Calgary Skyline picture) – there is a link to petitions.
How to help (this Page)
# 1 Petitions
I’m not a sufferer of MS, but i feel very sorry for those who do. I have a theory that is maybe very helpful for those who have MS. If the liberation treatment is at least a great contributor in improving the health of those people with MS, than there must be a cause why the blood vessels in the neck of those sufferers are so narrow in certain spots. It sounds maybe silly, but it is worth while trying it, and it cost nothing. It looks like the neck is bent over a long period of time that causes the artery to be restricted, and over time growing smaller. I think that this happened during the knight if a person have a to high or a to low of a pillow, or sleeps with the neck on the pillow. I is maybe a stab in the dark, but if i had MS, i would certainly give it a try and change the height of my pillow and see if it works. Joe.
Really? That is your solution to the illness? That does not even make sense. I HAVE MS, and that was the most amazingly irritating statement I have ever read. You think pillow location has anything to do with this disease? Obviously you know what you are talking about – after all, this is very unconventional and most certainly the very first time anybody ever thought of the shape of your pillow or how you sleep being responsible for having MS! You might want to read up on this illness before you comment. I am so sick and tired of people thinking they know something, when in reality, they know NOTHING and just blabber, so they can feel important! Please do not share that with the rest of us, especially with the ones who know what it is like, because they have the disease. It is beyond disrespectful. You put our illness into the realm of imagination.
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I guess I have a question about fundraising. What or who are we raising funds for?
I need to go now but am a short a few thousand dollars (say 10). Any suggestions?
What are we raising funds for – well to run the day to day activities of CCSVI Calgary as well as many other worthwhile endeavours we can. Meeting rooms, post office boxes, printing etc. As much as we try to keep the costs as low as we can, running a not for profit organisation takes some funding.
If I understand the rest of your comment – you are asking how to raise $10k so you can go get the treatment.
Many have gone before you and have been in the same position – the best way that I can think of to learn from them is come to the next meeting and meet those people and listen to their stories of how THEY were able to fund their own trips.
Meetings are posted on the main page once they’re arranged. I don’t have the date for the first meeting in 2010, but I would imagine it will be in the first two weeks of January.
Another place to find out is on Facebook. CCSVI Calgary has a presence, as well as many, many others. Ask for ideas – not all strategies work for all people and communities.
Years ago I had the good fortune to know some Swedish researchers who were doing some very good work in MS. Based on this research I can see why the Liberation treatment works a little bit but not especially well. I can see how it could be made to work much better. I have spent much of the past year trying to communicate with health ministers, universities, and researchers. Frankly, I can not see where anyone is trying very hard to make this treatment work. But I believe it can work well if it is done right. If you or anyone you know would be interested; please contact me and I will share what I know. I promise you that it will be surprisingly brief and simple.
Hi, Dr. M. Hennings!
My daughter suffers with MS since 2001 and I am interested in your research.
I can be contacted just by e-mail: dacimov@yahoo.com
Thank you for sharing this information and I am looking forward to get in contact with you!
Regards, Daniela Acimov