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On November 28, 2023: Eat Butter. Save Kids.
What is the Butter Challenge?
Hope for PDCD is repeating their inaugural butter challenge in conjunction with Giving Tuesday 2023. Let’s see if we can beat last year’s numbers
raised $18,000 for PDCD research
out of 800+ applications, was selected as one of the eight Most Creative Campaigns by our donation platform, Givebutter
“spread” from the United States to four other countries
reached 3,764 accounts on Instagram and reached 13,400 people on Facebook, of which 5,000 engaged with our content
last, but not least, united the families of PDCD in something joyful and hopeful
When
Where
Rules
Make a donation on Hope for PDCD’s Give Butter Campaign, large or small, it all adds up.
Post a picture or a video of you, your friends or your family eating some butter*, tag @hopeforpdcd foundation and use the hashtags #EatButterGiveButter and #GivingTuesday. In your post, tell everyone why you donated to Hope for PDCD Foundation.
Nominate three more people to do the same.
Other ideas: Add our fundraiser to your Instagram or Facebook profile. Promote our “Keto does it butter” t-shirt. All proceeds from shirt sales go to our research and advocacy efforts.
*If participants have dietary restrictions, please post a photo or GIF of butter. Use your best judgment when participating in the #EatButterGiveButter challenge.
Why Are We Eating Butter?
Currently, a restrictive ketogenic diet of high fat and very minimal protein and carbs is the only treatment option to slow the progression of PDCD. PDCD is a neurodegenerative, progressive disease of carbohydrate metabolism. Hope for PDCD is raising funds for research for the best therapeutics science has to offer our children: gene therapy.
Gene therapy will give the 1 in ~40,000 children battling PDCD a fighting chance. It has the potential to give them a normal life expectancy, improve quality of life, and stop the disease’s progression.
Because rare diseases are not profitable to cure, many children will pass away before a cure can be found. Without meaningful support from the biotech industry and the US government, it is becoming more and more common for rare disease families to crowdfund the money necessary to create better therapeutics for the children fighting rare diseases.
Support the children battling PDCD with a donation, eating some butter, posting about it on social with #EatButterGiveButter and #GivingTuesday, and passing it on!