Road Scholar Transport’s Autism Speaks awareness truck is making a special stop this Saturday in Allentown, PA for the annual Walk Now for Autism Speaks in the Lehigh Valley.
On April 20th, our awareness unit will be pulling into Dorney Park where participants will gather to walk the 1.5 mile course to help raise money for the developmental brain disorder that’s affecting 1 in 88 children and tens of millions people across the world.
According to walknowforautismspeaks.org, the event runs from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. with registration as well as the resource fair and activities opening at 8:30 a.m. and the walk beginning at 10 a.m.
Registration is open to the general public and there are no fees. Register for the walk online here.
Although rides will be closed the day of the walk, some of Dorney Park’s games will be open to raise money for autism. There will also be music, characters, face painting, tattoos, a resource fair, and food tent.
As autismspeaks.org states, autism costs a family $60,000 a year on average. This event has raised $236,000 so far. Those individuals that raise $150 or more will receive a 2013 Walk Now for Autism Speaks t-shirt, while those that raise $1,000 and over will receive VIP treatment the day of the walk, according to the Walk Now for Autism Speaks site.
Although there is currently no cure autism, with efforts such as the above, we can help spread awareness and raise funds for autism research and one day, find a cure.
About Road Scholar’s Awareness Campaign
It started with a single pink tractor trailer to help raise breast cancer awareness and grew to a campaign featuring two dozen different charities/organizations and growing. Below is a list of Road Scholar Transport’s awareness trucks that are traveling the roads each day delivering freight and moving one step closer towards a cure.
-Alex’s Lemonade
-Autism Speaks
-American Breast Cancer Foundation
-Children’s Tumor Foundation
-Prostate Cancer Awareness
-International Rett Syndrome Foundation
-St. Joseph’s Center
-American Foundation for the Blind
-Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
-Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PANCAN)
-The Flight 93 National Memorial
-The American Red Cross
-Clayton’s Hope (benefiting epilepsy)
-Children’s Craniofacial Foundation
-Make-a-Wish Foundation
-Children’s Cancer Recovery Foundation
-Northeast Regional Cancer Institute (Rock on Judi H)
-Stop Bullying
-Parkinson’s Disease
-Marley’s Mission
-9/11 Rolling Memorial
-Miracle for Ava…a Cure for Brain Tumors
-Lyla’s Hope-Spina Bfida
-Lupus
Visit www.roadscholarawareness.org to learn more about our campaign and to view our trucks. Don’t forget to keep the freight moving so we can spread awareness. Click here to get a truckload or LTL rate today.
Contact us for your FREE Awareness Calendar featuring our trucks at http://www.roadscholar.com/contact.php.
