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the IDEA
• Create a support group for children with diabetes in
Ecuador and other parts of Latin America.
• A youth-led education and advocacy program.
IMPACT
• Provided over $2 million in donated diabetes
supplies and professional medical services to Ecuador.
• Established a national diabetes camping
program, Campo Amigo Ecuador, serving
over 600 youth.
• Brought together over 15 Countries to
By using youth as agents for change they create and strengthen self-
sustaining diabetes organizations. They empower youth with diabetes
to develop and lead educational, medical, recreational, and advocacy
programs; increase international awareness of diabetes; and work
“JUNTOS SOMOS MAS
FUERTES”
with communities and families to fight the stigma associated with
the condition. Many children’s lives have been saved due to Nick and
Jesse’s Campo Amigo, where children learn to give themselves injec-
tions and receive free medical help. Various members of the com- (Together We are Strong)
munity are brought together for these camps in an effort to decrease
the stigma associated with diabetes that keeps so many parents from
actively seeking help for their child’s disease.
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