Ford Team Laces up to Fight Juvenile Diabetes
23 September 1999
Ford Team Laces up to Fight Juvenile Diabetes
WARREN, Mich., Sept. 23 -- Hundreds of Ford Motor Company
employees will join forces with General Motors employees at the GM
Tech Center in Warren on Sunday, Sept. 26, 1999, to combat a common foe:
juvenile diabetes.
Ford employees will be among the thousands of participants in the annual
10K "Walk to Cure Diabetes." The annual event raises funds for the Juvenile
Diabetes Foundation (JDF), the world's leading nonprofit, non-government-
funded researcher of diabetes.
"It's estimated that more than 48,000 Ford employees and their family
members have diabetes. My son, Albert is one of them," explained Edsel B.
Ford II, great grandson of Henry Ford and chairperson of the global team.
"Supporting diabetes research through events like the Global Walk is one small
but very effective way we can contribute to finding a cure."
Ford is strengthening its commitment to JDF by going global this year.
The company-wide goal for 1999 is to recruit 3,600 walkers from North America,
England and Australia and to raise $360,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes
Foundation.
The Ford Global Walk Team includes employees from more than 25 company
locations, participating in 11 JDF walk sites worldwide. Last year, Ford was
recognized by the JDF as one of its top 10 National Walk Teams, raising more
than $180,000.
Locally, the Walk to Cure Diabetes will be on Sept. 26 from 8:30 a.m.-
12:00 p.m. The Walk will take place rain or shine.
Warren Ann Arbor Lake Orion
GM Tech Center Domino's Farms Bald Mt. Recreation Area
12 Mile & Mound US-23 & Plymouth Rd. M-24 (N of I-75)
10K Walk, Run, 10K Walk 10K Walk
Rollerblade, Bike
Walk participants may register on site. For more information on the Walk,
please call the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation at 248-569-6171 or visit the JDF
Web site at http://www.jdf.org .