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Tuition fees to help out MS sufferers

Chris Sivewright Chris Sivewright

A TUTOR whose mother, brother and sister all battled multiple sclerosis is to donate fees cash to a charity which supports sufferers.

Chris Sivewright, 55, will donate all the business and economics tuition money he gets from his British pupils until the A-Level exams this summer to the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

His mother Joyce, who died in 1989, had to walk with sticks because of the debilitating neurological condition. The disease also hit sister Anne, 70, who lives in Canada, and brother Robert, 68, of Sidcup, Kent.

Mr Sivewright said: “Robert used to be in the army, he was a paratrooper and he was a boxer. He is now 68, but has had MS for 20 years. Because he was so physically fit, you could see the change MS has caused.”

Mr Sivewright charges between £25 and £30 for an hour of coaching in business and economics from GCSE to A-Level.

He has already raised £180, enough to fund an MS Specialist Nurse for one day, and hopes to raise £1,000.

He is also in talks with Oxford Tutorial College to teach economics over the Easter holiday, which would pay his tuition fees to the charity.

If you would like to support Mr Sivewright’s fundraising for MS, he can be contacted on 01865 556 361, email at chris.oslmarketing@gmail.com or online at justgiving.com/chris-sivewright.

Comments(2)

Chelseadog says...
11:21am Fri 1 Apr 11

I am sorry to hear of Mr Sivewright's family living with MS. This is such a terrible disease and I admire him for donating his funds to the MS Society. I do know the MS Society are meeting with the Govt on Monday as the MS Society says "people with the condition struggle to get other treatments." I agree with this living with a partner who has Secondary Progressive MS and knowing many people who do have MS. Hopefully the MS Society will recognise the difficulty people have in getting Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) on the NHS as well as treatment for CCSVI (venoplasty). It's no wonder only 12% of people diagnosed with MS take the current DMDs being offered on the NHS which have proven not to work and been publicised in the press. So any help that can be given to get both LDN accepted on the NHS and treatment for CCSVI for people with MS would be much appreciated. Good luck Mr Sivewright with your campaign! And if anyone with MS is reading this, please look up LDNNow and CCSVI.org.uk

Khris says...
10:59pm Fri 1 Apr 11

I equally sympathise with Mr. Sivewright and as an M.S sufferer myself, I can empathise also. I wish to agree with 'Chelsea dog' and also say that after 23 years of having M.S that I am 'very much' looking forward to when the 'Liberation Treatment' for C.C.S.V.I. (ie: widening blocked veins in the neck, that Prof. Zamboni of Italy identified and successfully reversed the symptoms of M.S in his wife and others) is made available on the N.H.S. For as ' Chelsea Dog' rightfully points out, only 12% of we M.S'ers are willing to chance our deteriorating health on the non-efficacious and sometimes 'lethal' poisons that are shamelessly 'promoted' by the M.S Societies AND 'Neurologists'.
These 'self-appointed' 'so-called experts' are 'misrepresenting' this common-place drug-free treatment, when they tell govt.s and governing medical bodies "it is a dangerous and unproven procedure". Equally ,'they' are 'totally' disingenuous' when they 'Vociferously' deny the 'enormous improvements' that have occured with the majority of the 12000 or so M.S patients that have 'bravely' taken their 'own council' and travelled to Poland, Egypt, Bulgaria, Serbia and now Scotland to Private Clinics for this 'life saving' breakthrough treatment. Although, being as 'desperately needy' 'as we are' for a 'safe' and effective treatment for this disgusting illness and given the alternatives 'on offer', I'm not at all surprised. I am truly sorry that this treatment' has come too late for your mother and reluctant though I am to say disparaging words, when it is apparent that your kind and selfless act of 'giving' is in loving memory of your mother and from a genuine belief this will help others with M.S overcome M.S. At this point I part company with 'Chelsea Dog' as I would be disingenuous myself, if I said 'giving to the M.S Society', in my opinion, was in 'the best interests' of M.S sufferers.

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