Jeremy and Tonya Hall are hoping to raise awareness and money for Cystic Fibrosis Canada.

The Paris couple have organized an event featuring the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game on Saturday at T.B. Costain Community Centre on Morrell Street in Brantford.

“This will be our third annual event,” Jeremy Hall said. “We’ve raised just under $10,000 so far and this will be our largest event yet.

“We’re expecting 60 to 70 people and ideally we’d like to raise $6,000 this year.”

There are still some spots open for the event, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. People can register at the door on Saturday morning or online at www.heroesforcf.ca .

Hall began the campaign after the birth of daughter Avril, now four. She was born with several complications because of CF and spent the first eight months of life in McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton.

“It is a genetic terminal condition but more and more children are living into adulthood,” Hall said. “The money we raise supports research and technologies and therapies to extend the improve the lives of those afflicted with CF.”

“We’re also hoping to raise awareness of CF in the community.”

The couple have two other children, John, 12, and 10-year-old Ryan.

“It was a pretty step learning curve for us when Avril was born,” Hall said. “There was a lot we had to learn as far as treatment goes.

“It’s one of those things that you really have to stay ahead of and, if you can do that, people afflicted with CF can live longer lives.”

Cystic Fibrosis Canada, formerly known at the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, was founded 59 years ago by Doug and Donna Summerhayes, of Brantford, after their daughter Pam died of CF.

When the foundation was established in 1960, most children diagnosed with CF did not live to attend kindergarten. Fifty years later, 50 per cent of Canadians with CF were expected to live into their late 30s and beyond.

Today, the median age of survival for Canadians born with cystic fibrosis today is over 50.

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