We are proud to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF).  Many of our exchange zones will be manned by volunteers from JDRF and as a result that is one way we contribute to that great cause.  While neither of us have children with type 1 diabetes we are both parents of three children each and can only imagine how challenging that must be and thus are proud of everything that they accomplish for children.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) is the leading charitable funder and advocate of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes research worldwide. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Type 1 diabetes is a disease which strikes children suddenly and requires multiple injections of insulin daily or a continuous infusion of insulin through a pump.  Insulin, however, is not a cure for diabetes, nor does it prevent its eventual and devastating complications which may include kidney failure, blindness, heart disease, stroke, and amputation.