Here´s a great news.
There are new updates to SACA (south and central america) region on IDF´s (International Diabetes Federation) site!
You can check out HERE:
Source: http://www.idf.org/diabetesatlas/5e/south-and-central-america
Dear reader,
This week I received great news and I´m really glad to share it with you!
I´ve got an invitation to collaborate with Diabetes Voice (International Diabetes Federation magazine) and they issued it last week on April´s edition.
Check it out (click on the picture bellow)!!!!!
Saturday, March 16th, I helped organize the ADJ Youth Support Group on: Dreams.
Funny thing is that when we speak we tend to say “I have a lot of dreams”, but when we have to put it in words, outside our brain, it is extremely hard. It´s a very interesting activity that can be used in any culture. It can be used in any educational context, here goes our example with diabetes education.
That was the exercise I´ve learned on the Células de Transformação Project (Transformation Cells Project) which I participated in 2011, a Brazilian project designed by a 18 year old girl (at the time) that won the United Nations prize of best sustainable development project in 2007. But, this is another chapter.
The exercise consists in drawing a river in a papper (at the river mouth they write the dream they want to achieve) and give the participants fishes (in which they will write things they believe that will help them achieve their dreams) and stones (in which they will write things they believe will be obstacles to their dreams.
It´s very common see the participants working hard to “find a dream” to write at the mounth of the river. But once they do and have the fishes and stones also written with opportunities and difficulties, it´s time to insert them in the river. Inside the river goes the “fishes and stones” that are within our reach and on the margin of the river are things that are out of our reach.
That´s the result, we tend see more clearly that our dreams is more in our hands than we think:
If you want to use this tool in any activity and want more details, you can get in touch with me (claudialabate@gmail.com). It would be very interesting to share its results!
And you, kept thinking about your dreams? Hands on!!!
Dear reader,
I´m here today to talk about the most popular celebration in Brazil held during the Friday to the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter.
This year I participated on the São Paulo Carnival Parade (for the fist time) with friends and I´ll share this experience with you and my T1D friend, Juliana Baptista, showing how to enjoy safely a huge and exhausting Parade.
First, let me explain a little bit about this brazilian tradition. It´s basicly when the samba takes the streets of Brazil. But, there are several major differences between each region. Each one has its own style:
Olinda Style: Rio de Janeiro Style:
São Paulo Style: Bahia Style:
Minas Gerais Style: Recife Style:
It was my first experience participating on an official parade (the ones that involves a championship for the best samba school on the avenue in which the costume, music, harmony… counts!) and I went in a group of 22 people.
We had to have a lot of energy, know the lyrics of our samba school music, setting the choreography and we couldn´t carry anything outside the costume (it had to be a uniform). That means that we couldn´t stop in the middle of the Avenue to check our glycemia. We had to carry a little purse with our needs (glucometer, glucose, money, mobile, documents…) underneath the costume.
The Parade happened at 3 a.m.. So, to avoid any hypo or hyperglycemia we:
And for those who wants to understand a little bit more about the samba, HERE you can see how the carnival drums works.
The year began (so fast!) and with it I received an invitation to write on the diabetes magazine “Vida Saudável e Diabetes”.
There I talked a little bit about myself, but mainly I had the space to talk about the work I´ve been doing as a Young Leader and how young people and associations could get involved, once our selective process is opened.
The thing I want to share about this activity is that last week I received a message from a man who lives in another state of Brazil, saying:
“ I recently read your story in a magazine focused on diabetes, I liked the initiative. I am a diabetic and has not accepted it very well, although it is under control and I´m super healthy, is always a limiter. I don´t have contact with diabetic people in my routine and would like to meet more people with the same situation as mine. Success forever.”
It was great to receive affection and know that we´ll probably have his presence in some of our next meetings/activities. So, very soon, I hope to present this illustrious stranger reporting an awesome activity.
A few months ago I was invited to write about “Life with Diabetes in Brazil” on Diabetes Mine Blog. For those who doesn’t know it, Diabetes Mine is one of the biggest diabetes themed blogs in the world. Take a time to explore it, there you’ll find the most different issues related to diabetes.
So, HERE is my Guest Post.
This is the last post about the 2012 World Diabetes Day activities. The most important actions that the Blue Power did are written in those 7 posts about the WDD.
With this I leave here ideas that can be spread with a little bit of the experience I had making them, so feel free to contact me and ask anything about them.
This last action was purely virtual/digital made on the young leadership facebook page (created two years ago and has today 2.428 followers). I particularly appreciate social media because it improves communication between very distant places in Brazil. This is, for me, the best way we can connect people to share, learn and develop.
We combined different messages to call for attention on the internet:
1. Brazilian Flag – Let’s protect our blue! 
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National Flag of Brazil |
This image was made to be highly spread on social media on November 14th. It connects the blue circle on our national flag with the blue circle of diabetes. In which the message was to protect the color blue of our flag. Along with the picture was shared the following text:
“ Brazil has 12 million people living with diabetes, 50% are undiagnosed! Today is World Diabetes Day, a day of spreading this message as much as we can so that these 6 million undiagnosed people are aware of their condition and those diagnosed search for their treatments goals in order to avoid complications and premature death. Share this image, stay tuned to the main symptoms of diabetes and make exams regularly! “
It reached 30. 613 people on Facebook, shared 558 times.
2. Countdown for WDD
A countdown was made during October and November reaching 13. 346 views in 18 publications. The message was “____ days for WDD” and the pictures had the “ (Act) United for diabetes”. Examples:
3. Give Away
A pin and a bracelet were given away on facebook. This activity reached 3.453 views and explained that the blue circle is the symbol of diabetes because, as the International Diabetes Federation says, “across cultures, the circle can symbolize life and health. Most significantly for the campaign, the circle symbolizes unity.” Also ” the blue border of the circle reflects the color of the sky and the flag of the United Nations.”
4. Post about the Blue Monuments
Post about the Monuments in São Paulo city lighted in blue explaining why the monuments were blue. It had 3.138 views and the following text: “Worldwide locations are being illuminated by Blue World Diabetes Day. Pictured below are some monuments of the city of São Paulo. Share this post and help spread the blue lighting for diabetes!”
5. Publicizing
And at last, but not least, we empowered the dissemination of side events and interesting articles about WDD that Blue Power contributed, such as:
- Blue Power activities
- TV Show with Heloisa Fagundes, an influential youngster with type 1 diabetes, that you can check HERE.
- Magazines: The interview with the american football player and type 1 diabetic, Daniel Santamaria.
Comportamento, Cultura e Evolução
Este espaço para contribuir numa comunicação Social mais Credivel
Uma vida mais doce após o diabetes tipo 1!
