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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" _mce_style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jo suffers from a hereditary eye disease known as Retinitus Pigmentosa (RP) and is slowly losing her sight. Often the first symptoms of RP are night blindness and loss of peripheral vision (tunnel vision) and in many cases leading to total blindness.<span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" _mce_style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Affecting around 25,000 people in the UK and around two million worldwide RP is now recognised as one of the most common causes of loss of vision in people of working age. However RP can arise and be diagnosed at any age but most often it is seen in teenagers and occasionally younger children and babies.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" _mce_style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <span> </span>At present there is no treatment available for RP, however medical researchers around the world have made significant progress in areas such as gene therapy, stem cell therapy and artificial retinal implants in recent years and remain optimistic that a treatment or cure will be found.<span> </span>We need YOUR HELP in making this possible!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" _mce_style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In July of this year, Jo and her son Charlie are attempting a 60k trek across Iceland to raise money for research.<span> </span><span> </span>The trek is a challenging expedition which hopefully will raise not only funding for research, but also awareness of the disease.<span> </span>Please sponsor Jo and Charlie and help others like Jo to find a cure! </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" _mce_style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> THANK YOU</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" _mce_style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> For more information visit </span><a href="http://www.brps.org.uk/" _mce_href="http://www.brps.org.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" _mce_style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">www.brps.org.uk</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" _mce_style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Registered charity no. 271729</span><-->
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jo suffers from a hereditary eye disease known as Retinitus Pigmentosa (RP) and is slowly losing her sight. Often the first symptoms of RP are night blindness and loss of peripheral vision (tunnel vision) and in many cases leading to total blindness.<span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Affecting around 25,000 people in the UK and around two million worldwide RP is now recognised as one of the most common causes of loss of vision in people of working age. However RP can arise and be diagnosed at any age but most often it is seen in teenagers and occasionally younger children and babies.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <span> </span>At present there is no treatment available for RP, however medical researchers around the world have made significant progress in areas such as gene therapy, stem cell therapy and artificial retinal implants in recent years and remain optimistic that a treatment or cure will be found.<span> </span>We need YOUR HELP in making this possible!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In July of this year, Jo and her son Charlie completed their trek across Iceland in order to raise money this very worthwhile charity.<span> </span><span></span>The trek was a very challenging experience which raised not only funding for research, but also awareness of the disease.<span> </span>Please keep sponsoring Jo and Charlie and help them reach their target, and help others like Jo to find a cure! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Your support is very much appreciated.<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> THANK YOU</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> For more information visit </span><a href="http://www.brps.org.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">www.brps.org.uk</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Registered charity no. 271729</span></p>