Diabetes Awareness in November
Diabetes Youth Wellington

A focus on diabetes awareness runs annually throughout November, with World Diabetes day on November 14. Diabetes Youth Wellington has compiled some resources for use in schools and the community to promote the understanding of Type 1 diabetes.
In November 2020 you can also follow our online awareness campaign #AtoZofType1 on our public facebook page. Share this with your friends and family to help them understand how they support someone with Type 1 Diabetes better.
Helpful / Unhelpful poster
This poster is a useful tool for your child to communicate what is helpful, and what is not helpful to them when managing their diabetes. What would they add to the list?
Snakes and ladders
A twist on the traditional snakes and ladders... diabetes-style. Hope you don't roll too many hypos!
Hypo / Hyper poster
A poster that helps children understand some of the symptoms of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia.
Sugar poster
Sugar is disguised under many names on nutrition labels. mySugr has compiled this handy list to help your children identify sugar when they are learning to read nutition labels.
42 factors that affect BG poster
Diabetes management is complicated with many factors affecting blood glucose levels - many of which are hard to identify. diaTribe have come up with a handy poster of 42 factors.
Type 1 Diabetes symptoms poster
Help raise awareness of the symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes with this poster from Abbott Diabetes Care. No-one is ever too young, or too old to develop Type 1. 

Help Diabetes Youth Wellington to help you!

Did you know DYW are a local and independent charity who rely solely on grant funding, donations, and our own fundraising efforts to deliver support across our community? Here are some ideas for how you could help raise funds on our behalf during November:
  • Ask your school if they would run a GO BLUE FOR DIABETES fundraiser - maybe a mufti day gold coin donation.
  • Run a GO BLUE FOR DIABETES baking fundraiser in your workplace - some people could bake, and others could purchase the baking.
Any funds raised can be donated via our givealittle page, or contact us to request our bank account details.