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CVS Caremark Employees Raise $1 Million and Increase Awareness for Children with Disabilities through Easter Seals Walk With Me Events Nationwide

Date:6/20/2008

WOONSOCKET, R.I., June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- This year, thousands of CVS Caremark associates across the country will participate in Easter Seals Walk With Me events as part of the CVS Caremark All Kids Can(TM) program, one of the country's largest corporate commitments to children with disabilities. Easter Seals was selected as an All Kids Can national partner when the company introduced the program in 2006.

Since 2006, CVS Caremark and its private foundation have contributed more than $4 million to Easter Seals, including CVS Caremark All Kids Can Fund gifts to support Easter Seals autism services, and a commitment to Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago's Therapeutic Day School and Center for Autism Research, scheduled to open this fall. Additionally, each year CVS Caremark has been a valued sponsor for Easter Seals Walk With Me events and employee teams have shown their support through Walk With Me pledges and local Easter Seals fundraisers.

In Providence, hundreds of CVS Caremark employees will converge at Roger Williams Park Zoo this Saturday to raise money for local children with disabilities. Since 2006, some 7,000 CVS Caremark employees have raised more than $1 million through walks for local Easter Seals affiliates. Walkers in Saturday's event in Providence will include about 350 CVS Caremark employees and their families, who expect to raise more than $75,000 to expand Easter Seals' early intervention services in the state.

"In Rhode Island, 14% of children under 18 have a disability, and nationally, 9.2% of American families with children have at least one child with disability," said Eileen Howard Dunn, Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Community Relations, CVS Caremark. "CVS Caremark is committed to improving the lives of children with disabilities through our All Kids Can program. We are very proud that so many of our employees are helping us support Easter Seals in expanding its extraordinary services to even m
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