This year Diabetes Hands Foundation has pledged US$35,000 in Big Blue Test grants, continuing its support for programs aimed at providing lifesaving supplies, medical tests, treatment, and patient education to people living in need who have or at risk of having diabetes.
Through the Big Blue Test, the Diabetes Hands Foundation rallies communities to experience the impact that small changes can have on their health. The grants generated by Big Blue Test participants will impact thousands of people with diabetes who are living in need.
Two US-based organizations will receive US$10,000 each in funding, with the remaining US$15,000 supporting projects in the Dominican Republic.
The following projects are being funded to provide people touched by diabetes who are in need of lifesaving supplies, medical tests, treatment, and/or patient education:
Riverside Community Diabetes Collaborative (RCDC) (Riverside, California)
RCDC will provide outreach, education, and support activities in English and Spanish in order to increase the knowledge and skills of it’s community to prevent or manage diabetes. The target populations for this project are Latino and African American families, adults, and older adults in Riverside, Jurupa Valley, Moreno Valley, and Perris.
LIFT-Levántate (San Rafael, California)
LIFT-Levántate will leverage it’s partnerships with County Public Health departments, hospitals, community clinics, local school districts, health care organizations, the Food Banks and grassroots community organizations to expand our free, multilingual, multicultural screening, testing, consultation, referral and education programs to 1,200 low income, underserved diabetes patients in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California and the east San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in southern California.
AYUDA/Dominican Republic (Arlington, Virginia) Funding will be used for Fundación Aprendiendo a Vivir (FAA) In the Dominican Republic.
Diabetes Hands Foundation is partnering with American Youth Understanding Diabetes Abroad, Inc. (AYUDA), a recognized NGO, to bring Big Blue Test grant funding to Fundación Aprendiendo a Vivir (FAA) in the Dominican Republic.
AYUDA’s primary goal is to leverage the global publicity of World Diabetes Day and the Diabetes Hands Foundation’s Big Blue Test to promote a primary prevention and management of diabetes in school-aged youth in the Dominican Republic (DR) AYUDA will collaborate with our local partner foundation in the DR, Aprendiendo A Vivir (AAV), to implement this school-based youth leadership initiative. AYUDA aims to identify “Change Maker Campuses” in the DR whose students will promote and model healthy life-style behaviors to help other youth reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and effectively manage type 1 diabetes. AUYDA’s unique model trains and empowers youth as key to sustainable, systemic change from generation to generation.
Big Blue Test is sponsored by Janssen, Insulet, BD, and AstraZeneca.