Event on 31 May, 2017
#SockItToME 2017
Hendon Primary School, South Australia, socks it to ME!
Hendon Primary steps out in crazy socks
During May awareness this year, Hendon Primary School held their first-ever crazy sock day awareness/fundraiser to say #SockItToME!
Here is Super Hero, Aidan, looking cool in his super hero socks with his teacher, Ms Quinn. They certainly set the scene for a crazy day of socks.
The students are extremely excited to be creative and wear crazy socks!
Ms Quinn, Hendon Primary School teacher
Students spoke about ME/CFS at an assembly earlier in the week. One of the children has a father with ME/CFS, so it was especially heartening to see the support from within the school community for the family.
Thank you to Aidan and Tracey Doherty and Hendon Primary School for holding such a successful awareness/fundraiser for our community.
Photos by Tracey Doherty
More photos on Facebook
Past #SockItToME events
Background to #SockItToME
Dr Lucinda Bateman and her team at the Bateman Horne Center in the USA, have worked tirelessly to help those with ME/CFS.
Dr Bateman started the idea of #SockItToME in January 2016.
I vow to wear wild socks until useful biomarkers are discovered.
Dr Bateman, January 2016
ME/CFS SA felt that crazy socks would be an appealing way to raise awareness of ME/CFS amongst children and their families, by inviting local primary schools to participate in #SockItToME since 2016.
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