Diabetes Week Campaigning and Awareness
Campaigning for awareness can take place in the form of sponsored walks to cake sales
Each year, campaigning around Diabetes Week changes slightly. Campaigns vary each year, but the essential nature of Diabetes Week is generally to make more people aware of what diabetes is.
In addition, the aim is to dispel diabetes myths and provide people with diabetes with a voice.
Campaigning for awareness
Diabetes UK campaigns on behalf of people with diabetes, and although Diabetes Week is firmly focused on having fun, there’s a serious message behind the scenes.
The Diabetes Week 2011 theme is to let people know you have diabetes. Talking about the condition and letting the people in your life known you are diabetic can genuinely help you live life to the full, Diabetes UK argues.
The point is to help you to help others in your life to understand what it means to actually have diabetes.
This Diabetes Week theme may include family and friends. Although they may know you have the condition, how much do they really know about diabetes?
Helping understanding
If your neighbours and friends know you have diabetes it can help their understanding. Letting insurance companies know you have the condition helps to guarantee that the insurance policy is valid.
Work is one area that this Diabetes Week 2011 theme is particularly pertinent to.
There is no legal requirement to let your work know that you have diabetes.
However, there are various reasons why bringing this knowledge public can help others to understand and tolerate your condition. Discrimination against people with diabetes cannot be allowed to continue.
Diabetes Week this year focuses on how and what to tell people about your diabetes.
This may include what diabetes means to you, what a hypo is and what to do, what treatment you are taking and much more.
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