• To raise awareness and dispel ignorance of MS within the Asian community
• To provide a telephone support service for Asians with MS, their carers, friends and family
• To focus on putting fun and dignity back into the lives of Asians with MS and their carers

We also:

• Raise funds for persons affected by MS from the Asian community
• Deliver information in different languages
• Offer access to an interpreting service
• Run an online discussoin board
• Provide mini language sites.

Introducing the Asian MS Committee

• Shiv Sharma - Treasurer, Asian MS support group
  Diagnosed with relapsing remitting MS in 2002. Despite this diagnosis and three relapses over the last 5 years still manages to hold a full time job together with his voluntary work for the MS Society mainly with Asian MS.
  
• Sanjay Chadha - Chairman, Asian MS support group
  He founded the Group with Gurjit Sihota in 1997 and the aim of the group was to try and raise awareness of MS within the Asian community. He has moved from relapsing remitting MS to his current situation of being in a wheelchair.
  
• Saher Usmani - Asian MS Support Officer, based at MSNC
  She works for the Asian MS support group developing and promoting Asian MS and ensuring MS Society’s strategy, initiatives and policies reach out to people affected by MS in the Asian community across the UK.
  
• Gurjit Sihota - Co-founder, Asian MS support group
  Gurjit co-founded the Support group in 1997 with Sanjay Chadha. She lived in Bradford for many years and has now moved to Sutton Coldfield. She has secondary progressive MS, but is mobile for most of the time. You can watch a video interview with Gurjit below.
  

Video interview with Gurjit Sihota

How to contact us

• Call 0208 438 0856 - Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9am-5pm
  
• Send an e-mail to asian@mssociety.org.uk
  
• Write to:
  
  Asian MS c/o
  MS Society, MS National Centre
  372 Edgware Road,
  London NW2 6ND