Copy Graphics Supporting Team Dynamic Duo

Welcome to our Great Strides team page!  We have been supporting Team Dynamic Duo and all the RGV Great Strides for over 10 years.  We walk in support of the approximately 30,000 Americans living with cystic fibrosis, including my two granddaughters - Maya and Elena Valladares. 

On the outside, Maya and Elena are two typical little girls that love to play, dance, smile and run around the house playing tag with each other and their dog Archie.  However, every morning and every evening (and sometimes in the afternoon), they take respiratory medications, digestive enzymes and undergo compression therapy to assist them with such basic functions as breathing and eating.  Maya and Elena are fortunate for if they had been born 20 years ago, their median life expectancy would have been somewhere near 18 years of age.  Today, thanks to advances in medicine and research funded by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, that age is over 40 years and increasing.    

Please join us in the fight to find a cure to CF.  By walking, we are helping add tomorrows to the lives of people living with cystic fibrosis like our own personal dynamic duo. Will you join us? Support me by joining us as a walker or making a donation to my Great Strides fundraising campaign today  Your gift will go directly to supporting life-saving research and medical progress and is 100-percent tax deductible.

Thank you for your support.  While the girls' diagnoses were devastating moments in our family's life, the love, support, encouragement and generosity we have experienced from family, friends and strangers alike reminds us everyday of the miraculous power of love and prayer. 

Sincerely - Copy Graphics, Ana Escobar and Valladares family