Q2-05
	A reminder of how life is like without insulin Some pictures leave a more permanent mark on your retina than others. People watching TV in the days after September 11 2001, experienced this phenomenon. In September 2005 new pictures competed to be remembered, when the flood in New Orleans separated people from their loved ones, their homes, their belongings and in some cases from lifesaving insulin. The situation is depicted on television; a woman collapses on the floor and a desperate voice is heard; "does anyone have regular insulin?"  For a person with diabetes the only thing you can’t be separated from is insulin. In the footage from New Orleans we saw it with our own eyes, in the developing countries it is a common thing. Children with type-1 diabetes have poor access to the right amount of insulin, regular blood glucose tests and healthy meals. These are circumstances that mean life or death for all people - men, women or children - who happen to have diabetes. Living in the developed world, with strict controlled diabetes you can postpone or even avoid the severe complications of diabetes. Foot ulcers leading to foot or leg amputation, retinopathy leading to blindness, miscarriages caused by gestational diabetes, renal failure leading to death. These are just some of the consequences when this chronic disease takes control. This fall, the World Diabetes Foundation has received 25 project applications - the highest number ever. The majority of the projects supported by WDF have - untill now - concentrated their efforts towards preventing diabetes complications and to educate diabetes patients to take care of them selves. Health care professionals are educated in discovering diabetes in patients before complications occur. Now is the time to take it a step further. In 2003, 194 million people worldwide were estimated to have diabetes, this number is expected to increase to 333 million in 2025, the largest increase will occur in the developing countries. WDF wants to approach this development by strenghtening it's efforts in the prevention of type-2 diabetes. What is the best way to raise awareness on a healthy lifestyle and a good diet? Well our story from India shows that a good idea is to do it the local way. The global way to raise awareness is to join our Global Diabetes Walk on “World Diabetes Day” November 14, where people with or without diabetes take a walk to remind us all how important physical activity is, if we want to prevent type-2 diabetes. Last year nearly 70,000 people from seven continents joined the walk. Rain or shine, people will walk with friends or family, enjoying the scenery. While their bodies enjoy the physical activity their thoughts will go to all the other people doing the same thing for the same reason. See that’s a picture to remember!
	Laura's marathon “Enclosed please find our donation of 28 of checks totalling 1,169.50 USD, each check made out to the World Diabetes Foundation.” With these words Julie Burns from Lovingston, Virginia, USA, begins a letter addressed to the World Diabetes Foundation. Julie Burns is the mother of 21 year old Laura Burns, who for the past six months has studied in Buenos Aires,  Argentina.  The letter of support WDF received July 2005 was the culmination of a fundraising campaign Laura started by asking people to sponser her as she ran her first ever marathon. Read more
Screening announced by car, Tamil Nadu, 2005	Calling all mothers In South India, the team behind a WDF supported project is working with the local government to find and treat GDM, gestational diabetes mellitus. Communication is one of the important weapons in the fight against GDM. Read more
	Diabetes book benefits children in Tanzania Life with diabetes is disclosed in a book produced by the medical company Novo Nordisk. The book “Young Voices” gives an insight into the lives of young people living with diabetes. The profit of the books sold goes to a project supported by World Diabetes Foundation that will help children in Tanzania. Among the voices given room to tell their stories; one personal story stands out from the crowd. The voice of five year old Happy with type-1 diabetes, born into a poor Tanzanian family, she is spending her days in the rooms of the family flat. Read more
	The coming generation At the quarterly board meeting in June 2005 the WDF board of directors was presented with an analysis pointing out an imbalance between primary and secondary prevention of diabetes in the projects supported by the foundation. The result surprised the board, who agreed on a new WDF focus area, which will lead to more support towards efforts in primary prevention in the future. Read more