Wal-Mart Associates and SAM'S Club Partners WalkTogether to Help Children

On Saturday, April 24, 2004 , over 150 Wal-Mart associates and Sam's Club partners from Central Florida as well as their customers will begin at Constitution Park at Summerlin and South Street and walk 5 miles through downtown Orlando to benefit Greater Orlando Children's Miracle Network. Walkers are encouraged to collect pledges from customers, friends, and family members. This year, for the first time walkers will participate in a 'poker walk' portion of the event. Go to your local Wal-Mart or Sam's Club to sign up to walk, call 407-481-2774 for more information, or sign up online at www.gocmn.org

Wal-Mart and Sam's Clubs in Central Florida raised over $235,000 for Greater Orlando Children's Miracle Network in 2003 alone. Proceeds from the Annual Wal-Mart Walk for Kids will benefit the pediatric programs at Shands Children's Hospital at UF and Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children & Women through Greater Orlando Children's Miracle Network. This money is used to purchase patient care equipment, fund research, provide diversionary activities and produce patient education materials.

Children's Miracle Network (CMN) began in 1983 to actively support better health care for kids. Today more than 170 hospitals throughout the United States and Canada , specializing in treating children, make up CMN. Children's Miracle Network hospitals help 17 million kids each year - kids with cancer, birth defects and pediatric AIDS...organ transplant patients and accident victims...and children living with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis, kidney disease and heart disease. The organization is unique in that money raised locally stays in the local community to benefit the participating CMN hospitals.

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Contact Greater Orlando Children's Miracle Network, 22 West Lake Beauty Drive, Suite 102 - Orlando, FL 32806. Phone: 407-481-2774.