Spare a Rose; Save a Child

Imagine living in a country where you could not afford to buy insulin for your child with type 1 diabetes? 


A few years ago, the Diabetes Online Community in America started an initiative called Spare a Rose, Save a Child. The idea being to take the typical “dozen roses,” so popular on Valentine’s Day, and save just one rose to spare the life of a child. 

The Spare a Rose, Save a Child campaign is directed at raising awareness and funds for the Life for a Child program, which is an International Diabetes Federation program aiming to take “contributions from donors go to established diabetes centres enabling them to provide the ongoing clinical care and diabetes education these children need to stay alive.” 

The idea was to take the typical “dozen roses,” so popular on Valentine’s Day, and save just one rose to spare the life of a child. “Spare a Rose, Save a Child” is simple: buy one less rose this Valentine’s Day and share the value of that flower with a child with diabetes in the developing world. Your loved one at home still gets flowers and you both show some love to someone across the world who needs it. From Kerri Sparling, Sixuntilme

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