The Village for Epilepsy
About The Village for Epilepsy Awareness
The book "The Village' was written to help open the hearts and minds of people all around the world about epilepsy. There are approximately 3.5 million people in the United States who have epilepsy, but how many people truly know what epilepsy is? Do they know we had a US President with this condition? We had some of the greatest inventors, athletes, authors, actors, and musicians with epilepsy! This is a condition people do not understand and they only know the drama that comes along with it.
How can all these people be successful and still have epilepsy? Part of it is because there are so many different types of epilepsy, but people do not know that. The worst part of it all is that people do not talk about epilepsy so there goes the "Education" is needed. The "Support Groups" that people with epilepsy need are so important. Without others sharing their lives of living with epilepsy, others with epilepsy think they are alone!
It was when the "People of The Village" came together and supported Kevin Bolden that Hopkins Technology saw Kevin Bolden and first and epilepsy second.
About Lowell Evans
Born and raised in the early 1960s in the small town of Gloucester Va. as the youngest of nine children to the late Mr. Warner and Ellen Evans, Lowell G. Evans learned how to appreciate life itself. He noticed how his parents focused on taking care of their children, while still willing to lend a “Helping Hand” to others who lived in their community. People knew the Evans family for that reason and the fact that they placed God as number “One” in their lives.
Lowell continued this same way of life when he moved to Norfolk, VA where he attended Virginia Wesleyan University and graduated in 1983. In 1980, during his sophomore year of college he had a fall while playing basketball and developed “Epilepsy.” He had no problem with this until he noticed that he could not find that “Support Group”, in other words, that “Village Concept” to assist him with this neurological condition that he was now facing.
Lowell was determined to make a difference and succeed, even though many told him because of epilepsy he would not graduate from college, get a career, or even have a family. He achieved all goals that people said were not possible because of his epilepsy. In addition to doing so, he also wrote a novel titled, “The Village” to help educate society about epilepsy. Lowell’s book has been sold all around the world to people from all walks of life. He has even spoken at the largest epilepsy event in the world, the Epilepsy Awareness Day at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, more commonly known as the EADDL.
In 2021, Lowell assisted in the passing of the Jamie and Brie Strong Act in his home state of Virginia. This now means that all the schools in the state of Virginia and their staff must receive Epilepsy Education and Seizure
First Aid Training every two (2) years. This also includes the Bus Drivers.
The next goal that Lowell and many people with epilepsy want to see is a movie for “The Village. Why? This will be just another way to reach the close to 3.5 million people in the United States who have Epilepsy. Because of the huge “Lack of Knowledge” of this neurological condition that still exists, people with epilepsy are denied some of the same opportunities in life that other individuals are given. With a movie we will have:
“Victory Over Epilepsy; One Voice, One Village at a Time!”
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Lowell Evans
Executive Director, author of The Village is Coming
Lowell as host at Epilepsy Awareness Day at Disneyland
The author of The Village at work.
Meeting with Senator Mark Warner
At an awards dinner with Congressman Bobby Scott