Type 1 diabetes strikes children and adults and stays with them for life. This serious condition can happen to anyone and is not caused by anything that they did, or did not do. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) exists to find the cure.
Type 1 diabetes affects about 350,000 people in the UK, over 25,000 of them children, who will need to have around 42 million insulin injections this month, just to stay alive.
JDRF is on a mission to raise more money for research and to tell more people about type 1 diabetes. We need your help to do it !
Leave a message for Gordon...
There are going to be lots of ways to get involved
over the coming months but we thought we’d kick
off by going to the boss, Mr Gordon Brown himself!
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Leave a message for Gordon...
We want to increase the amount of money going in to type 1 research in the UK and that means we need to start talking to the Government!