The Richmond Times-Dispatch this week profiled an effort that benefited FightSMA last month. Mondial Assistance, an international travel insurance and assistance provider with U.S. operations based near Richmond, Virginia, purchased December air time on WWBT-TV and produced spots featuring the women whose efforts improve the lives of others. One of those spots profiled FightSMA President Martha Slay. Here’s an excerpt from the Times-Dispatch article:

Martha Slay, founder and president of FightSMA, was selected for helping to raise funds to support research and treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic killer of children under 2. Slay, of Richmond, has helped raise more than $6.5 million.

Founded as a nonprofit organization in 1991 after Slay’s oldest son, Andrew, was diagnosed with SMA at 14 months of age, FightSMA has 19 chapters in the U.S. and Canada. It supports SMA research projects at more than 40 universities and institutions in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France and Italy. Most recently, Slay helped to create the “Fighter Mom” program that helps mothers deal with a variety of childhood health disorders.

You can read the entire article here.