• 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

Here's a brief introduction to the Asian MS committee:

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• Shiv Sharma acting Treasurer for 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 of the 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 works at the MS National Centre as an Asian MS Support Officer. 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 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.