The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is the leading charitable funder and advocate of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes research worldwide. Type 1 diabetes is a disease which strikes children suddenly and requires multiple injections of insulin daily or a continuous infusion of insulin through a pump. Insulin, however, is not a cure for diabetes. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research.
Our own Brian Vanderhoff has had Type 1 Diabetes for 33 years. He has become accustomed to the daily insulin and everything else that goes along with being a diabetic. We support JDRF in hopes that someday "Becoming a Diabetic" is no longer a lifestyle change, but merely an illness that is treated and recovered from. Or even a vaccine that prevents it all-together.
Please join us to help support JDRF at the Annual Fresh Market sidewalk sale. The Fresh Market will hold its 14th annual Hope Floats Sidewalk Sale on Friday, September 12, through Sunday, September 14, from 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. daily to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Each of The Fresh Market’s 80 stores in 18 states will offer root beer floats, hot dogs and gourmet cookies in exchange for a donation to JDRF in support of its mission to find a cure for diabetes and its complications. Volunteers are also needed at each location to help with this event. If you are interested in volunteering please contact Katie at the Georgia Chapter office at (404) 420-5990 or e-mail Katie at gachaptertemp1@jdrf.org.
To learn more about JDRF, visit
www.jdrf.org.
Please also visit your local Fresh Market to thank them for supporting JDRF once again:
www.thefreshmarket.com.
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