Calling all Canadians! It’s your chance to support COIS (In partnership with the OIF) with our very own COIS-SCOI Walk N Wheel 2022. Our walk n wheel coincides with the 2022 National OIF Virtual Conference, to which we are a proud sponsor. Now is the time to register your Walk N Wheel team, and raise awareness and funds for the Canadian Osteogenesis Imperfecta Society (COIS)

Raise OI awareness in your neighbourhood, or city by creating your own team and participating in your own Walk N Wheel, starting on July 8th to kick off the Virtual National Conference, and support the work of COIS and the OIF. Complete the walk, on your own time, with a distance of your choosing. Make sure to tag COIS in your photos and videos, and feel free to post them here as well!

How do I participate?
Email info@cois-scoi.ca with your team name and team leader email address. COIS will then email you a link to your team page, where you can customize it with a personal story and photos, as well as your personal fundraising goal.
Share your fundraiser page via email and social media with your friends and family. Wear your favourite COIS, OIF or OI awareness gear, then walk or wheel around your neighbourhood on July 8th, or anytime that weekend. Don’t forget to tag COIS in your photos and videos!

As an extra incentive, for every $1300 a team raises, they will receive 1 free registration to the next in-person OIF National Conference.

We can’t be in person at conference just yet, but we can continue to show our support for the work of COIS and OIF.

Thanks to generous donors like you, here are some of the initiatives we have been able to bring to fruition over the past 2 years:

Launching the Francis Glorieux Fellowship For Medical Research. Ensuring sustainable excellence in ongoing research, treatment and management of OI.

Partnering with a local summer camp to create the very first OI Family Camp in Canada. Providing financial assistance to qualifying families wishing to attend summer camp.

Working with The Canadian Alliance for Rare Disorders of the Skeleton (CARDS), to provide educational webinars on a variety of current issues in OI clinical care.

Launching the COIS Physician and Clinic Directory to provide families with information to assist them in locating dependable multidisciplinary medical care.

Developing information and resource materials (in both official languages) to help the OI community enhance their OI understanding and adaptation skills.

Sponsorship of qualifying persons or families to attend the next in person OIF National conference.

Providing French translation services to the OIF Virtual National Conference

Supporting international OI initiatives, such as our support of the OI Federation of Ecuador, to align with our goal of achieving a global network of an OI Community without boarders.

Continue our special partnership with the OIF that is of great benefit to the Canadian community.

Hosting free community events to support our local OI communities, and build awareness.

Email info@cois-scoi to register your team today!

COIS is a registered Canadian charity. All donations over $20 will receive a charitable donation tax receipt
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