“Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.” ~ Annie Lennox
We are a small dedicated group with the sole goal of curing muscular dystrophy (MD). We are working on broadening our efforts for finding a cure by raising funds and adding quality people that are willing to donate their time to help our cause.
Everyone that works for or with DMD Help is donating his or her time. The executives, employees, subcontractors and volunteers all donate their time so most of our funds can go toward funding research efforts.
Our founder, Al Farschchian, has a grandson, Kaden Farshichan, who is suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Throughout the years, while taking Kaden in for checkups or doing research on muscular dystrophy, Al has developed strong feelings for all the children that suffer from this disease — beautiful souls that wear the most beautiful smiles.

For the last 4 years, Al and some of his friends have been exploring may options for a potential cures, but have been unable to find anything that truly comes close to a cure. Although there are many medical research projects and medical trials being conducted currently, none is close to promising a cure for all muscular dystrophy patients. Some of the current efforts, even though they are only targeted toward a specific category of muscular dystrophy patients (specific phenotype of the disease), are still far from being considered a cure.
Because science in genetics has advances so rapidly in last 10 years and is continuing to advance even faster today, we have decided to build on existing research programs and explore all other options of finding a cure worldwide. Moreover, because more often than not a reasonable solution is presented but bugged down by corporate red tape or it is put on the back burner because the return on the investment is not great enough, we are going to make sure that we follow through and finalize all the research projects that we find and fund.
We recognize that there are a lot of good organizations such as Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) that help fund researches around the world, but we also know that a lot of research projects come to a premature end due to lack of funds or politics. We are going to fill in that gap and make sure that many more promising research projects are started and finalized. We believe cures can be found for all muscular dystrophy patients; and we also believe that the higher the number of researches conducted and completed globally, the better a chance of finding a cure sooner.