Hi all

Chris Baty, the President of Diabetes NZ emailed through this update from Ron Raab (President of Insulin for Life) this morning:

In total, we have now confirmed that donated insulin from Insulin for Life for 200 people for one month has either already been taken in by Nancy or will go in tomorrow in person.

These supplies are donated to FHADIMAC – Haiti Diabetes Association by Insulin for Life, with transport and handling costs paid by the International Diabetes Federation.

Many more donated supplies are ready to be sent urgently by Insulin for Life Global from IFL Austria, IFL Germany and IFL UK and others.

Ron
If you’ve not donated anything towards Haiti yet and are considering it,…

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Hi everyone

I just got this email forwarded to me – please help out if you possibly can.

Diabetes Auckland is collecting any unwanted Insulin and test strips to send to Haiti.  If you have any you don’t need please forward them to:

Diabetes Auckland
PO Box 67041
Mt Eden
Auckland 1349

Or

62-64 Valley Road
Mt Eden
Auckland 1024

They would like to get parcels sent away as soon as possible so would be very grateful for any donations to help out in Haiti.

Thanks
Heather

Heather Conland
Operations Manager
Diabetes New Zealand
+64 4 499 7145
PO Box 12441, Wellington 6144, New Zealand
www.diabetes.org.nz

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According to stats, there are 313,000 people in Haiti with diabetes.

Manny of TuDiabetes wrote yesterday:

I asked Ron Raab, President of Insulin for Life (an NGO that receives donations to help people worldwide who cannot afford insulin and diabetes supplies) what was being done to help people with diabetes in Haiti. This is what he replied a few minutes ago:

“We have today sent 2 parcels (1370 mls insulin and strips, meters, lancets, pens, pen needles, syringes) by DHL to Haiti, after talking with them by phone. The supplies should arrive in 4 days.

We have a destination and active senior contacts there. We…

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Hello all and welcome back for the new year!!!

I hope that you all had a safe and happy festive season and that we’ll get to hear about some of the things that you all got up to over the coming days and weeks…

It was nose to the grindstone for the second half of December for me at work so I was more than pleased to be able to have two weeks off over the last fortnight. I think I needed it more than I knew and it made me realise the effect that stress has on my BGs (which I actually already knew but had forgotten). We ended up having 9 adults and 8 little ones over at…

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I was talking to my Dad tonight as I do every couple of days and a couple of things struck me.

The first was that in February, around the time of my Dad’s Birthday, I will have been a diabetic for 18 years! It certainly doesn’t feel like that long right now but sometimes I also feel like I can’t remember ever not being a diabetic too.

That then started me off thinking about the days when we didn’t have insulin pens, it took a good 5 minutes to get a BG from the Reflolux S and you counted food in portions not carbohydrates. I have a really vivid memory from when I was about 9, sitting on my Mum…

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