Dance for Diabetes is a social event to raise founds for diabetic education seminars for school teachers around Poland and to benefit Polish Juvenile Diabetes Foundation soon to become Polish Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, registered in Poland as Fundacja CUD Cukrzyca U Dzieci

1. Dance for Diabetes

2. Dance for Diabetes
World Diabetes Day
Celebration

3. Diabetes in Children & Adolescents
• Type 1 Diabetes is one of the most common
chronic diseases to affect children.
• It strikes at any age, even babies aren’t safe.
• If not detected early enough, the disease can
be fatal or result in serious brain damage.
• It is an autoimmune disease and cannot be
stopped or prevented.
• Yet diabetes in a children is often completely
overlooked: it can be misdiagnosed as a flu or
not diagnosed at all, until the damage is done.

4. Life with Juvenile Diabetes
• Diabetes strikes kids suddenly, but it lasts a
lifetime.
• Life with Diabetes is like a constant balancing
act between hi and low blood sugar levels.
• Diabetes dictates all the rules; 8 finger sticks a
day, at least 180 insulin shots per month and
over 2190 each year, just to survive.
• There’s no vacation from Diabetes and right
now there’s no CURE.

5. Juvenile Diabetes in Poland
• Poland has an increase of new Juvenile
Diabetes cases; This year alone we will have
more than 3 500 newly diagnosed babies,
children and teenagers.
• Yet there is no National program in place, to
provide them with a safe environment upon
their return to school or nursery.
• Each nanny, teacher, sports coach, or a school
nurse should know all the risks, and learn
how to care for a child with diabetes.

6. Diabetic Friendly School
• Polish Juvenile Diabetes Foundation has put
together a special learning program for
teachers and coaches to introduce them to all
aspects of Juvenile Diabetes at School, Camp
or sports training center.
• It will be FREE and short; just five hours of
visual learning will provide the staff with
knowledge and understanding of diabetes
basics and give them skills to act in case of
emergency.

7. • Certified Diabetic Educator will guide the
attendees through the seminar.
• All signs & symptoms and remedies of low and
hi blood sugars, meal schedule and testing
regiment that children are required to follow
will be explained in detail.
• Glucagon Emergency Kit, Blood Glucose
Testing, Meters, Insulin Types and Delivery
Options will be shown & explained.
• All Emergency procedures will be taught.
• An Online Final Test will have be passed to
receive a certificate of “Diabetic Coordinator”.

8. • The goal of this program is to provide tools to
the teachers that are needed for JUVENILE
DIABETES MANAGEMENT in a School
Environment.
• The goal of this program is to teach the staff
skills, compassion, patience and alertness thus
making their schools safer & better place to
learn.
• The goal of this program is to make every
education facility in Poland a “Diabetic
Friendly School”.

9. Dance for Diabetes
Polish Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Event
“Diabetic Friendly School”
WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN
For information please email
sponsor@pjdf.org

10. Dance for Diabetes
Polish Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Event
“Diabetic Friendly School”
WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN
For information please email
sponsor@pjdf.org