Does living with diabetes stimulate your creative juices?
by Pat Salber, MD
The International Diabetes Federation, in collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company, has developed a global art competition for people affected by diabetes. They call it Inspired by Diabetes. You can express yourself however you want as long as it reflects how diabetes inspires you – in your family, your community, or as a part of the global community.
You can write an essay or a poem (500 words or less) or you can submit a photograph, original drawing or painting. For the musical amongst us, you can submit an original composition, up to three minutes in length (instrumental and lyric).
There are four categories of participants:
· Children (with diabetes or a family member of someone with diabetes)
· Adults with diabetes (18 and older)
· Family member or friend of someone with diabetes
· A healthcare professional
Prominent people in the worldwide diabetes community will be the judges. Entries can be submitted until January 31, 2008 with winners announced in Spring 2008.
One grand-prize winner will be chosen for each participant group across all formats. The prize includes a $5000 contribution to charity, a special trophy and an all-expense paid trip for the winner and a guest to attend the media briefing announcing the winners. There will also be 1st-3rd place winners. They will have a $500 contribution to charity and will receive a trophy.
All grand-prize winners and all 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will have their artwork features on the Inspired by Diabetes website and “may be featured in public viewing and exhibitions.”
If diabetes stimulates your creative juices, then check out this contest.
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We here at IDF were excited to see your blog about our contest. Thank you for helping to spread the word. I also wanted to let you know about our upcoming World Diabetes Day and ask you if you could do us a small (but very helpful!) favor.
We are in the midst of our preparations for the first UN-observed World Diabetes Day (www.worlddiabetesday.org) on 14 November this year, and I wanted to ask you if you would like to help us to spread awareness of this worldwide event and the theme we have chosen for it this year - Diabetes in Children and Adolescents.
It is estimated that over 200 children develop type 1 diabetes every day and there's no question that the disease often hits disadvantaged communities the hardest, and that children in the developing world can die because their parents are unable to afford medication. In many countries diabetes is still considered an adult disease and as a result can be diagnosed late with severe consequences, including death. Even after diagnosis many children experience poor control and develop complications early.
This is why one of our key objectives for World Diabetes Day this year is to double the number of children covered by the Life for a Child Program - http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/go/wdd-2007/life-for-a-child. We also want to encourage initiatives that can help to reduce diabetic ketoacidosis (diabetic coma) and to promote the sort of healthy lifestyles which can prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes in children.
A version of the diabetes circle, the icon we used for our Unite for Diabetes campaign http://www.unitefordiabetes.org/ has now been adopted for World Diabetes Day and we have produced a number of web banners that you can view and download here http://banners.worlddiabetesday.org.
The way in which you can help us spread awareness of World Diabetes Day is to add one of the banners to your own blog, which we would really appreciate.
The UN's World Diabetes Day Resolution (61/225) was really just the first goal of an ambitious campaign that we have been leading. This is the first time a non-communicable disease has been recognised as a serious threat to global public health and we are hoping now to further raise awareness globally of the disease that is predicted to contribute to 6% of the world�s mortality in 2007.
If you would like to know more about the UN Resolution and our plans for World Diabetes Day this year, just drop me a line at stephanie.tanner@idf.org and I will get back to you with more information.
Special thanks,
Stephanie Tanner
IDF - Communications Assistant
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