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Liezel Rossouw

2025 Canberra MS Walk Run + Roll
5km
Walk

Help me reach my goal of $260

NO ONE SHOULD FACE MS ALONE!

Can you imagine waking up one day unable to do the everyday things you would usually take for granted? Like not being able to see properly (or at all), unable to get out of bed, walk to the phone to call someone – anyone – or live a life without pain?

All of a sudden, your world has changed.

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic and often debilitating disease which attacks the central nervous system (the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves). It is the most common neurological disease in young adults and often attacks people at a time in their lives when they are planning families and building a career. Three out of four people living with MS are women.

With your support, we can allow people living with multiple sclerosis access to vital support services, like MS Connect, MS Peer Support and MS Employment Support Programs. We’ll also be helping bring new treatments closer to reality, investing in repairing myelin damage to restore function that has been lost for people with progressive forms of the disease.

On behalf of over 33,300 Aussies living with multiple sclerosis – THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

PLEASE HELP ME
BEAT MY GOAL

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$334

My Goal

$260

My team The Gangelang has raised $733

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My 'Comrades Marathon', at last!

Saturday 29th Mar
In 2003 I had a thought... oh, bless the mind that thinks like mine...

If I could swim the 200m across the mighty Vaal River (SouthAfrica), I could go to Thailand and sit in silence for 10 days in a Buddhist Monastery... And if I can do all of that, I can run the Comrades Marathon - a 90km run between Durban and Pieter Maritzburg.

As it turned out, I was invited to swim across the Vaal River, with an experienced swimmer, the very next day after my outlandish thought!

I did! I swam to Stokkiesdraai, a holiday resort,  had a few awesome runs through the supertube (huge curly water slide), and swam back to Mum and Dad's house! That night I booked my ticket for Thailand and three months later I found myself in silence, in a Buddhist Monastery for ten days. Both experiences were exactly what my soul needed and turned out to be life changing!

MS was already a part of my life, way back then, even thoughI lived in complete and utter denial. I couldn't sustain a running plan. The fitter I got, the more exhausted I got. The more I pained... which at the time, I put down as running injuries. After all this time, it still feels like I have failed the challenge I gave myself 22 years ago, to run the race I helped prepare hundreds of athletes for, as physiotherapist.

This year I am finding me, doing the most incredible things for me. Without thinking how hard it's going to be for me, I signed up for the 5km walk. For the state I am in, this will be my Comrades Marathon, at last. 

Will you cheer me on, as I walk to raise funds for a society who helped me get onto the NDIS, Disability Support Pension and gave me the best plan coordinator anyone can ask for?

Thank you for your kind support of me and this cause. I could do with a walking buddy on the day. Any takers to walk with me? 

Love to you all. ❤️

A BIG THANK YOU TO MY SUPPORTERS

$82.29

Susanne Faulkner

Go girl.

$21.10

Anonymous

$15.82

Heuning

Always supporting you. You are an amazing woman.

$105.50

Lin

You got this lovely 🥰 love you lots

$54.86

Annelie Stapela

Lief jou my vriendin! Jy kan dit doen 💕

$54.86

Finola

Great challenge Liezel, good luck with funds raising. ❤️

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