Los Angeles Hope, Steps & A Cure Walk

Online registration will end at Midnight (EST) on Thursday, January 14.  After that time, you can still register on site at the Walk.

UPDATE: Brandi Chastain (Olympic gold & silver medalist and 2-time World Cup champion team member) and Oliver Wyss (Director & Founder of Soccer for Hope and former soccer pro) join hands and will participate in this inaugural walk!

Hope, Steps & A Cure, a fundraising and awareness walk, will benefit the Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation as it provides support and hope to patients with bone marrow failure diseases.  It will be held in conjunction with the 3rd Annual Mia Hamm & Nomar Garciaparra Celebrity Soccer Challenge at the Home Depot Center, at 3:00 pm, organized by the Mia Hamm Foundation. (Tickets for the Soccer Challenge will be available for group discount rate of $15 each during the Walk registration. Cash or checks made payable to the Mia Hamm Foundation will be accepted.  No credit cards for Soccer Challenge tickets can be accepted.)

Registration for the Walk will begin on the campus of California State University Dominguez Hills at noon on Saturday, January 16.  The Walk route, a flat course of approximately 2 miles, will take you through the CSU Dominguez Hills campus and will finish at The Home Deport Center, just prior to the start of the Celebrity Soccer Challenge.  Parking is available for Free at The Home Depot Center, or for $4 at Lot 3 of the Cal State Dominguez Hills campus.

Plan to spend your afternoon with us.  Check back on January 8th for updates and an event map.

How can YOU help? Volunteer during the event Register to walk & recruit walkers (friends, co-workers, neighbors, student groups) to your team. NOTE: Online registration is now closed - please register onsite at the Walk.  Ask your families & friends to sponsor you, collecting donations in  person or online through Firstgiving.com/AAMDS Set a goal to raise at least $250 (only 10 donations of $25 each) through Firstgiving.com/AAMDS or by turning in contributions at the Walk Have fun with us on 1/16/10 as we walk for Hope, Steps & A Cure