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The PreJax Foundation

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Having multiple sclerosis is hard. But being a kid growing up with the challenges and responsibilities of having a parent with MS is hard, too.

Being the child of a disabled parent makes you truly special. You learn about compassion, patience, and understanding much more quickly than kids with able-bodied parents. You often have to be more responsible and more helpful at an earlier age, but you melt your mother’s heart when you see someone in a wheelchair and say, “Look Mommy! She’s just like you!” We are your version of normal, and from that comes a very special kind of love.

Sadly, many disabled parents and their caretakers have a harder time paying for their children’s education because of medical expenses other people don’t have. Not necessarily because they’re indigent, but because injections and infusions and neurology visits and wheelchairs can be very costly. Having to sacrifice ANYTHING that helps your child succeed in life because of a chronic and incurable disease is more unbearable than the disability itself.

Here at The PrēJax Foundation, we aim to change that.

We exist solely to award college tuition assistance in the form of $1000 scholarships. These go to exceptional students who either have a parent with MS or have themselves been diagnosed with MS. The Foundation’s name is a partial combination of two names, Preston and Jackson - the amazing sons of our President and founder Sylvia Longmire, who has been living with MS for 11 years. They are our true inspiration.

The PreJax Foundation is new, and we're in the process of applying for tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) non-profit. This means that donations to our Foundation will eventually be tax-deductible, which is awesome! However, this process with the IRS can be very lengthy; we want to help kids of MS pay for college NOW. We're putting some of our own money towards this end to create two scholarships for spring 2016. However, every little bit of money YOU donate can help pay for even MORE scholarships that we could never fund on our own while we wait for tax-exempt status. 

The time contributed to administration and fundraising efforts by founder Sylvia Longmire and our board members is voluntary, and as such does not take away from funds that could be better spent on college tuition. We don’t travel, pay for office space, or even buy stamps. We make calls, use email and Skype, market through social media using phones and Internet service that’s already paid for. In other words, we do everything humanly possible to minimize or completely eliminate overhead expenses so your precious funding dollars go exactly where we want them to - the students.

I've been able to witness first-hand as the mother of two incredible boys the bits and pieces of life that are different for them because of my MS. I'm blessed that their educational opportunities are secure, but there are a lot of kids out there in their shoes who are not so lucky. This is a very personal endeavor for me, both as a mother with MS and a staunch advocate for higher education. Your support is not only meaningful for me, but is an amazing way to help some truly incredible kids.

For more information about ThePreJax Foundation, please visit our website . You can also support our efforts by liking our Facebook page !

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Sylvia Curbelo Longmire
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Sanford, FL

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