On Sunday, October 29, 2023, our team joined the Tckachenko family and community of Scottsdale, Arizona for the inaugural community fundraiser organized by Heal DMD - a nonprofit organization committed to promoting healing and well-being for individuals with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and their families....

My husband Keven and I have 3 kids and we’ve been homeschooling for more than 10 years. Here’s a little background of how we got here.

It was May of 2020. What started off as a virus we were observing from the US wreak havoc first in Asia, then Europe, was now firmly taking hold locally. The two-week home school period, turned into two months and families were thrown into the impossible transition of figuring out how to work from our living rooms and support our kids’ education through endless Zoom meetings and classes. Life as we knew it was on hold…seemingly endlessly…and many were crippled with fear of the toll COVID-19 could have on us and the world we live in. But something was about to disrupt our lives in a far more meaningful and personal and terrifying way than any global pandemic ever could. 

On October 7th, the Baweja and Warner families hosted our inaugural Waves of Hope Wine Tasting event at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, CA, raising more than $83,100 in support of CRD’s mission....