Challenges for a Cure - Juvenile Diabetes (type 1) fundraising

[bennopop]

Hi guys,

My wife and I raise money each year for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Australia (JDRF). The JDRF is a worldwide organisation funding research into a cure for type 1 diabetes.

Our daughter was diagnosed at 5 with type 1 diabetes (she's now 7). Type 1 is not the diabetes most of you would know of (publicised with images of overweight people while suggesting healthier eating would cure it). That is type 2 diabetes and vastly different.

Type 1 is an auto immune disease. There is no cause, no predicting, no cure and no warning.
It causes weight loss, lethargy and a complete lifestyle change for your (often young) child filled with constant blood tests, insulin injections and carbohydrate counting. Literally everything that goes in your mouth is counted.

Without waffling on too long, we have set up a Facebook page to coordinate our fundraising based upon CHALLENGES!. All fundraising is done via the JDRF's guidelines and websites and no money comes to us. Our aim is to raise funds to one day see a cure for our little girl and so many others.
Hopefully we can boost the number of members so that people can undertake their own challenges via the site to combine some efforts!

Please check out the page if you can, and share with your friends. Although at the moment my wife and I are the ones currently doing the challenges, we feel that will have limited reach so we want to encourage others with like-minds to complete their own challenges.

www.facebook.com/challengesforacure

Cheers, Ben