Promise to Remember Me

Promise to Remember Me….

President Barack Obama met with more than 150 kids and teenagers with type 1 diabetes on Tuesday – a high point of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Children’s Congress, the largest grassroots event held in support of research for type 1 diabetes.  From June 22-24, children and teenagers representing all 50 states took part in Children’s Congress, which included the White House visit with the President, a Town Hall panel of athletes and celebrities impacted by diabetes, individual visits for each kid delegate with their senators and representatives, and a Senate hearing at which Nick Jonas, Mary Tyler Moore, Sugar Ray Leonard and kids – all touched by type 1 diabetes – testified on the need for funding for type 1 diabetes research.

Every two years, JDRF International Chairman Mary Tyler Moore and over a hundred children with type 1 diabetes gather in Washington, D. C.  to meet face-to-face with some of the top decision-makers in the U.S. government.  The children, ages 4 to 17, represent all 50 states and the District of Columbia. As participants in JDRF’s Children’s Congress, they have a unique and empowering opportunity to help Members of Congress understand what life with type 1 diabetes is like and why research to find the cure for diabetes and its complications is so critical.

Children’s Congress will took place on June 22-24, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

For more information about Children’s Congress