It’s that time of year again!!!
Each May of every year, JDRF Australia and the Type 1 Community celebrates Jelly Baby Month.
The humble Jelly Baby has become quite the unsung hero, even pulling Lance out of a severe early morning hypo at 7am this morning!!! (8 Jellybabies later, and I could gradually see my son returning from the brink of unconsiousness.)
Every year, thousands of JDRF staff, Youth Ambassadors, JDRF Advocates, volunteers and many other generous souls go doorknocking, approach hospitals, businesses, passersby, friends and family, selling packets of Jelly Babies, pens, keyrings, teddybears-all baring the simple but poignant message:
Jelly Babies Save Lives.
Last year, almost $858 000 was raised in the month of May. This year, for the tenth anniversary of Jelly Baby Month, JDRF is aiming for $1 million, that would be donated directly to finding a cure!!!
How can YOU help??? If you shop at any of the 700 Woolworths/Safeways stores within Australia, you will notice at the checkouts colourful boxes, jam packed with the “Jelly Baby” featured everywhere, as well as groovy, fun examples of colourful, exciting merchandise. All products are $10 or less, and anything over $2 is tax deductible.
Amcal Chemists,Medibank Private and Wendy’s also help us out by selling our merchandise.
Who do you contact if you want to make a donation on behalf of a loved one with Type 1 Diabetes???
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation — All States (Australia)
Tel 1300 363 126
Email info@jdrf.org.au
(If you would like to support make a donation exclusively in Lance’s name, please contact our Queensland JDRF Government Programs Manager:)
Queensland - Georgina Duncan on (07) 3221 1400 or gduncan@jdrf.org.au
If every person with Type 1 Diabetes donated $1, we would instantly have over $140 000. ( In 2007, Lance and I raised $2500 on our own, simply by doorknocking from house-to house in our neighbourhood!!!!!)
This is a fantastic project to get involved in. If your children receive pocket money, how about suggesting that they contribute just $2 during JellyBaby Month, explaining that people with Type 1 Diabetes must have numerous needles AND fingerpricks, in order to survive?
