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Remember to Spare a Rose… Don’t forget to Save a Child.

February 9, 2014 – 11:41 am

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(click on the banner to give– now)

 
 
The Spare a Rose, Save a Life campaign is getting closer to its target every day. They’re $6,000 or so toward their goal of raising $10,000 by Valentine’s Day to provide life-giving insulin to children in need around the world.

The notion of the Spare a Rose, Save a Life campaign is simple: If your intent is to give a dozen roses to someone special this Valentine’s Day, why not give eleven and donate the cost of that 12th rose (about $5.00 USD) to the International Diabetes Federation’s Life for a Child campaign? Only $5.00… You can handle that, right? You might even be able to handle more than five bucks.

What does that money buy?
 
 
Five dollars provides life-giving insulin for a child in a developing country for an entire month.

Thirty dollars helps to keep a third world child with diabetes alive for six months.

Sixty dollars worth of insulin sustains life for a child with diabetes living in Haiti, Kenya, the Phillipines, and 40 other countries for an entire year.

There are just a few days left in the campaign, though you can give to Life for a Child anytime. Won’t you help? Let’s continue to show how special and giving the Diabetes Community is.

The need exists… Some have the means to help… And all of us have the ability to communicate. So join in the final push toward the goal for Spare a Rose, Save a Child. If you haven’t yet, consider making a donation today at sparearose.org/give. Or click on the image at the top of this post. Oh, and don’t forget to share this initiative with all of your Friends on Facebook and Followers on Twitter.

Let’s go over that $10,000 number and revel in the lives that will be saved through your efforts.
 
 
 

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Show the love… for Life.

February 2, 2014 – 12:28 pm

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(click on the banner to give– now)

 
 
Once again, the Spare a Rose, Save a Life campaign is in full swing. The notion is simple: If your intent is to give a dozen roses to someone special this Valentine’s Day, why not give eleven and donate the cost of that 12th rose (about $5.00 USD) to the International Diabetes Federation’s Life for a Child campaign? Only $5.00… You can handle that, right? You might even be able to handle more than five bucks.

What does that money buy?
 
 
Five dollars provides life-giving insulin for a child in a developing country for an entire month.

Thirty dollars helps to keep a third world child with diabetes alive for six months.

Sixty dollars worth of insulin sustains life for a child living in Haiti, Kenya, the Phillipines, and 40 other countries for an entire year.
 
 
The truth is, kids are diagnosed with diabetes everywhere. But insulin isn’t available, or affordable, everywhere. Even in places where a month’s worth of insulin is only five dollars, a diabetes diagnosis can be a death sentence.

But it doesn’t have to be. Let’s show our commitment to kids (and parents of kids) with diabetes everywhere. Click on the banner above, or go to sparearose.org/give to donate today. Tell everyone you know this February that diabetes doesn’t respect borders… and remind them that by joining the Spare a Rose, Save a Child campaign, thanks to your efforts and mine, children will live.

Who can’t fall in love with that?
 
 
 

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Make your Valentine’s Day meaningful – #sparearose

February 13, 2013 – 12:13 pm

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It’s official… I’m the last Diabetes blogger to post on this subject. But just in case you haven’t read about this yet, let me lay the groundwork for you. Because this is very important.

A number of Super Diaheroes (including Kelly Close, Manny Hernandez, Bennet Dunlap, Kerri Sparling, and Jeff Hitchcock) got together with Johnson and Johnson on an initiative to use social media to make a difference… right now.

Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. It’s a time when a lot of roses are given. Usually a dozen at a time. What we’re asking is that you buy one less rose this Valentine’s Day and share the value of that flower with a child with diabetes in the developing world.

How do you do that? You donate the value of that one rose to the Life for a Child program under the auspices of the International Diabetes Foundation. According to the IDF:

“Donations to the IDF Life for a Child Programme are carefully directed to key areas of diabetes care and management so that established paediatric diabetes centres and associations can provide the best possible care, given local circumstances, to all children and youth with diabetes in developing countries.”

What that means is that in places where diabetes has previously been a death sentence for a child, kids are provided with insulin; meters, test strips, and lancets; diabetes education; and even diabetes training for local medical staff.

So please, join the Diabetes Online Community by showing your support to the Life for a Child program. Click on the banner above or click on this link to make your donation: http://bit.ly/SpareRoseSaveChild

Give ’til it hurts, people. Because this is important. Lives are at stake. You can help to save lives today by making a donation… Tweeting about the initiative using the hashtag #sparearose… and if you haven’t already, blog about it too. For all the details, go to the Diabetes Advocates website: http://diabetesadvocates.org/c/spare-a-rose-save-a-child/
 
 
 

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