Draw Cystic Fibrosis

Draw CF is a new fun initiative to raise Cystic Fibrosis awareness in Tasmania.

Walter from Devonport Tasmania is not your standard six-pack male model, but other than appearing as a regular fit middle aged male, Walter is a model Cystic Fibrosis case: Distended belly, barrel chested, clubbed fingers, skinny arms and legs, he fits the exact mold of someone with Cystic Fibrosis. Why not try this new way or supporting your favourite charity, Cystic Fibrosis, by hosting a life drawing class in your home!

Invite your best friends for an evening, serve some champagne and nibbles and Walter with facilitator if required teach your friends how to draw a life-model, whilst also educating people about Cystic Fibrosis.

People with CF often look normal and healthy, even athletic and sporty, when dressed. Perhaps they look a little pale or gray on the skin, have a bit of a 'smokers' cough, but they are in fact very different to normal healthy people.

Make a date!

Primary dates for this fundraiser are between now and September 2013 as Walter is leaving on his www.coughing4cf.com fundraiser adventure after that date!

Typical cost is $15 per person. Go on, relax, have fun and learn about CF and learn to draw!
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About CF

People with CF have sweat that is 5 times more salty than normal. Bacteria that don't effect healthy people colonise CF lungs (requiring regular antibiotic treatment), their digestion is impaired (requiring 10-20 enzyme tablets per day). Poor digestion translates into poor nutrition (hence a high fat and high salt diet is recommended!). Because of their bad lungs the heart also gets enlarged, and most people with CF end up needing a double lung transplant.

In people with CF their livers are enlarged and their pancreases are atrophied, often resulting in diabetes and insulin dependence as well as.

In most cases a person with Cystic Fibrosis suffers most from the lung damage caused by continuous infection. Most CF deaths are caused by lung infection, and in many cases people with CF get wait-listed for lung transplants. Waiting for suitable lungs requires living close to an organ transplant facility - which is often away from home - for an average of 2 years. Many people with CF do not survive, and a lung transplant is not the end of their CF problems either.

You can support CF by donating to Cystic Fibrosis, but another great way to help people with CF is by completing an organ donation application. At the life drawing parties Walter will hand out organ donation registration forms.

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Contact: drawcf@coughing4cf.com