LaVerne Council

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LaVerne Council

• LaVerne Council Works to Eliminate Prematurity

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LaVerne Council

• LaVerne Council is a successful
  businesswoman who has made a big name for herself
  in the corporate world. She has held important
  positions in many big organizations and proved
  herself to be a valuable asset in every company
  she has worked. She always wanted to work in the
  corporate world as business has always been her
  passion. Besides business there is one more
  passion in the life of LaVerne Council and that
  is working to eliminate prematurity. Her son Troy
  was also born prematurely and that is why this
  cause is very close to her heart. Prematurity or
  preterm birth refers to the situation when the
  child is born in less than 37 weeks of
  gestational period. So, in case of premature
  birth the child is born before his organs are
  developed enough to allow him to survive after
  birth. Due to this reason prematurity is the
  major cause of infant deaths in the developed
  countries. LaVerne Council considers it to be a
  very serious issue and wants more efforts to be
  made to eliminate prematurity from the face of
  the earth.

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LaVerne Council

• The March of Dimes Foundation is an
  organization that works for the cause of
  preventing prematurity, birth defects and infant
  mortality. LaVerne Council fully supports this
  organization and has been a volunteer for it for
  the last many years. She presently serves as the
  Chairman of the National Board of Trustees for
  the March Dimes. This organization was initially
  started to fight against polio and later when
  polio was eradicated it started working to
  prevent premature births and birth defects.

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LaVerne Council

• LaVerne Council has been working very hard to
  raise funds for this organization to help
  pregnant women have full term births. The
  children who are born prematurely have a very
  high probability to develop many long and short
  term complications which include disabilities and
  problems with physical and mental development.
  Medical science has made some progress in the
  field of taking care of children who have had
  preterm births but no progress has been made in
  the area of preventing or reducing the incidents
  of prematurity. March of Dimes funds research in
  this field so that prematurity may be eliminated
  completely.

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LaVerne Council

• Thanks