Steps For Life
Event Ended- Where
- Wascana Park (near the totem pole) - Lakeshore Drive, Regina, Saskatchewan View Map
- When
- Price
- Walk is free - donations are accepted Buy Tickets
- Ages
- all ages
- Website
- https://secure3.convio.net/thread/site/TR?fr_id=1335&pg=entry
- Contact
- gvaneaton@wcbsask.com 306 535 0930 (Grant Van Eaton)
Steps for Life Regina creates hope from tragedy
REGINA – There’s strength in numbers, but there’s also empathy, encouragement and shared passion for a cause. When it comes to Steps for Life – Walking for Families of Workplace Tragedy, the empathy and encouragement are for those who’ve experienced a work-related death or injury. The shared passion is for the cause of prevention.
Through Steps for Life, communities like Regina across Canada will tap into that strength, raising awareness of health and safety and funds to support families affected by work-related fatality, life-altering injury, or occupational disease — regular families like Melanie’s. Melanie’s husband Mark was severely injured in a fall while working as an industrial electrician. Mark sustained multiple injuries, including broken vertebrae, skull fractures and brain injury. Mark died four years after his injury. He was 42. This spring, Melanie is the national spokesperson for Steps for Life.
“On the day of Mark’s accident, he lost everything that made him Mark,” Melanie says. “His smile was dimmed, his laughter less often and his independence gone. He lived with chronic pain and suffered seizures because of post traumatic epilepsy. Mark’s absence from our lives is felt every single day.”
Steps for Life is a way to create hope from tragedy. It’s a fun five-kilometre walk which serves as the premier fundraiser for Threads of Life. This national charity supports families like Melanie’s which are affected by workplace tragedy. Steps for Life Regina is in its 10th year. Local volunteers, businesses and families have raised close to $67,000 to provide families with peer support, information, and training to help them share their stories.
Steps for Life is “an opportunity for communities to gather in support of changing the future of all those affected by a workplace tragedy,” Melanie adds, “and help continue to spread awareness about how important health and safety is in our workplaces.”
Steps for Life Regina takes place on May 7 at Wascana Park. Registration opens at 10:00 AM; and the walk kicks off at approximately 10:40 AM. Learn more at http://www.stepsforlife.ca.