World Diabetes Day (WDD) is the day in which millions of people worldwide unite to raise awareness about diabetes and the escalating health threat that it poses. WDD is celebrated every year on November 14 since its inception in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization.
The significance of this date is to mark the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting who, along with Charles Best and John Macleod, discovered insulin in 1921.
While campaigns last the whole year, WDD is celebrated by associations, organizations, companies, healthcare professionals and people living with diabetes and their families around the world.
Individuals, organisations and companies develop a various range of activities each year to raise awareness of diabetes and the need for research towards finding better treatments and management of diabetes, prevention of diabetes and its complications, and finding a cure.
Activities include: radio and television programs, sports events, screenings for diabetes and its complications, poster and leaflet campaigns, press conferences, newspaper and magazine articles, events for children and adolescents, monument lightings, walks, runs and cycles.
Would you like to get involved?
Diabetes Research WA are launching the inaugural 'Tie It Down and Nail It Day' - a day when you can get involved and help us change the future. Our focus leading up to and including the day is to have as many workplaces as possible commit to being involved by wearing our exclusive hummingbird blue tie or painting your finger nails blue and decorating your office with out hummingbird logo balloons on Friday November 14th
We will provide you with an Office Kit that will include relevant information about WDD, our campaign and even the bottle of blue nail polish!
The office kit is available for $25 and the exclusive hummingbird tie is $40.
The potential impact that your donation and workplace participation can have on promoting awareness to your staff and contributing to research is huge.
TO order your kit please call 9224 1006 or email us, simple :)
