It should come as no surprise that the winner of JDRF’s 2010 Writing Contest loves her language arts class. Thirteen-year-old Hannah Faircloth, who is entering eighth grade this year in Wilmington, NC, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was four years old. But despite her young age, Hannah took her diagnosis in stride, [...]
Monica Oxenreiter, of Pittsburgh, PA, is not only a teenager living with type 1 diabetes – she’s also the brains behind Zip the Cure (ZTC), a campaign that defines creative fundraising. The simple but powerful idea behind the program is to raise $100 in every zip code in the nation to fund type 1 diabetes [...]
Here at JDRF, we believe that support for the type 1 diabetes community shouldn’t be limited to just one stage of life – we continue supporting individuals with type 1 through marriages, the growth and changes in their family lives, different careers and travels, and even complications they may face. For this reason, JDRF has been expanding [...]
