The only thing helping children with type 1 diabetes stay alive in some of the poorest countries across the globe is a small but mighty program called Life For a Child. Without the program, there is no insulin for these children.
This Valentine’s Day, you can save a child’s life with just $1 by sparing a rose and putting that money towards something different.
If you purchase just one less rose and save that money to donate to the Spare a Rose, Save a Child initiative, you will help save life of children with diabetes across the world who need insulin to live.
The annual Spare a Rose event benefits the Life for a Child program and is sponsored by the International Diabetes Federation. It aims to take “contributions from donors [to] go to established diabetes centers enabling them to provide the ongoing clinical care and diabetes education these children need to stay alive.”
Most of the insulin and other diabetes supplies are actually donated, but the funds raised each year help pay for the shipping costs of getting these life-saving items to different places across the globe.
Just $1 a day provides a type 1 diabetic child with:
regular insulin
quality blood glucose monitoring equipment (meter, strips, lancets)
essential clinical care
up-to-date diabetes education materials
specialised diabetes training for medical staff
We invite you to Tweet this, post it on Facebook, and include it in your own blogs to help raise as much money this week as we can for the Spare a Rose, Save a Child campaign.
Read these testimonials on the impact that your donation can have on children’s lives.
Read this FAQ page to learn more about your donation.
This year, Valentine’s day doesn’t have to be limited to guys buying roses for gals…instead, guys and gals can donate their “rose-money” to children with diabetes who need insulin to live!
The Spare a Rose Podcast Campaign
After a successful launch in 2016, Diabetes Podcast Week returns February 6. Organizer Stacey Simms is once again bringing together diabetes show hosts to benefit the Spare a Rose, Save a Child campaign.
During the week of February 6, podcasters who’ve signed onto the campaign will include information about Spare a Rose in their shows, on their websites and over social media using the hashtag #dpodcastweek. They’ll ask listeners to learn more and to consider making a donation.
Participating Podcasts/Video Blogs
Beta Cell Podcast
Diabetes By The Numbers
Diabetes Connections
Diabetes Dominator
Diabetes Late Nite
Diabetes Power Show
Diabetic Danica
Everybody Talks
The Juicebox Podcast / Arden’s Day
Just Talking
Real Life Diabetes (Diabetes Daily Grind)
You don’t have to be a guy buying roses for a gal. The gift of insulin to save the life of a child with diabetes can be from a daughter to a mother, a sister to an brother, an uncle to a grandmother!
Photo credit: Life
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