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Insulin for Life Australia

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25.01.2022 Donated insulin has just arrived and ready to be distributed at the Bacolod Adventist Medical Center in Bacolod City, Philippines #diabetes #InsulinforLifeAus #savinglivesaroundtheworld

25.01.2022 Heart warming that we were able to get supplies to those in need in Timor- Leste. There were restrictions that stopped us from sending from Australia to Timor-Leste but they have thankfully been lifted. . "I would like to inform you that we have received the insulin. Thank you for your donation to Bairo Pite Clinic. Thank you for supporting Bairo Pite Clinic's work with your generous regular donations of insulin and glucometer with tests trip. Your valuable gift is helping us provide long-term of primary health care for poor of Timorese."

25.01.2022 Hi friends, We at IFL Australia hope you are going okay and keeping safe. COVID-19 has affected all of our lives massively. It has affected the way IFL Australia is currently functioning. Our ability to send supplies is being impacted to some extent due to disruptions of flights to some destinations, but we are still able to send supplies, and are accessing alternative transport options as well.... Below are some key points outlining how the IFL program is currently operating. We kindly request that you ONLY SEND US SUPPLIES FROM THE LIST BELOW, that are no longer needed, unopened, and in-date with at least 6 months until the use by or expiry data. Insulin of any kind - vials, prefilled pens, penfill cartridges - with at least 6 months to use-by date and kept refrigerated glucose test strips (at least 6 months to use-by date) unused meters, still in unopened boxes, and not more than 2 years old Blood ketone test strips Glucose meters & testing strips: Please contact us first Ketone test strips: with 6 months to use-by date Syringes & pen needles are not required because we currently have large stocks. Packing: No cool pack is needed for insulin. It survives very well for the few days in transit to us by ordinary mail Please send to: Insulin for Life PO Box 2010 Ballarat MC Vic 3354 You are helping save and ease lives *Pictured are artworks produced by children receiving IFL Aus donated supplies in recipient countries

25.01.2022 Our wonderful longtime supporter Akiko's is jogging 98 km (!) for World Diabetes Day on November 14, and her jogging distance coincides with 98 years since the discovery of insulin! Yet many people still do not have access to this lifesaving medicine.. Insulin For Life Australia has been supporting the Philippines, which is one of our major long-term projects . We send donated insulin to several centres throughout the country and also initiate and help manage children's dia...betes education and fun camps there, where they are also supplied with donated insulin. In the COVID-19 situation, it has become more difficult to supply their needs and with your help we will be able to cover the increased transport costs to send the donated insulin as soon a swe are able to supply them. They are in urgent need of this insulin. Please support Akiko's wonderful project and Insulin for Life Australia and help save the lives of young people with diabetes in the Philippines To support the project please go to https://www.mycause.com.au//challenge-run-for-diabetes-care

24.01.2022 #ThrowbackThursday to Camp Bolivia earlier on this year! For many of these children, this is the first opportunity these children have had to meet others with Type1. Insulin and diabetes supplies were provided by IFL. Many new wonderful life experiences happened at this camp. #savinglivesaroundtheworld #InsulinforLife #diabetes

23.01.2022 Picking up life saving supplies in the Philippines #savinglivesaroundtheworld #InsulinForLife

21.01.2022 An Insulin for Life team will participate in the Melbourne Marathon Festival on Sunday! https://insulinforlife.grassrootz.com/melbourne-marathon-fe

20.01.2022 Prison program, Bacolod City, Philippines This is the second year where IFL Australia has been involved in assisting free blood glucose testing in prison The team visited 2 prisons and tested aprox 200 prisoners and 20 staff. One prisoner had an extremely high blood glucose reading and the team advocated on his behalf to be seen by a medical professional. #diabetes #InsulinforLifeAus #savinglivesaroundtheworld

16.01.2022 2 shipments have been successfully sent to Ecuador. One to Cuenca and the other to Quito.A success with all the obstacles Covid-19 brings. #savinglivesaroundtheworld

16.01.2022 Happy Tuesday IFL friends! An incredibly moving article written by Aracely, President of FUVIDA in Guayaquil, Ecuador. IFL Australia provides FUVIDA with donated diabetes supplies. Andrés visited us today with his mother. They are from Venezuela and migrated to our country (Ecuador) because their son has type 1 diabetes, and medicine was not available in his country, seeking to solve his problem with our health system.... Oh surprise! Our health system does not include complete treatment with analogue insulins, nor test strips for glucose control in type 1 diabetes, nor for Ecuadorian children.he has had several hospitalizations and still cannot stabilize, he has lost a lot of weight. Andrés, 10, comes to me and tells me in my ear, I'm worried because I don't have strips to measure my glucose, I'm surprised and the mother asks me what he says. How is it possible for a child to have that concern? Tears roll down his mother's cheeks. I continued talking with him and he showed me the values of his machine which have been high for the last 14 days, he told me that he cannot go out to play because where he lives is dangerous, that he misses his friends from Venezuela. He gets along very well with his sister who takes care of him. It was a very tender and also very mature conversation. His mother migrated with her two children and faces life alone, works as a caretaker for two children in the afternoon and at night for an elderly person, their income does not exceed $200 and here the minimum vital supplies exceeds $500. Thanks to God... we have supplies for 3 more months and can provide insulin to Andrés for a minimum of 3 months. If we do not invest time, education, dedication and supplies for these children, (their lives) will surely be complicated in the future.. #savinglivesaroundtheworld #diabetes #IFLAus

15.01.2022 One of the many faces of donated insulin in the Philippines Worldwide distribution of supplies has been a challenge during these unprecedented times #savinglivesaroundtheworld #InsulinforLife

15.01.2022 Supplies ready for distribution in the Philippines #savinglivesaroundtheworld #InsulingForLife

14.01.2022 A nice news story from pre Covid-19 world... As you may know, IFL has a successful standing program in the prisons in the Philippines for the last few years. In February 2020, an IFL team visited the Soong Prison in Lapu-Lapu, Cebu city in the Philippines. On this visit, the 940 prisoners were screened. 40 were found to have high to very high blood sugar readings. ... The Prison had no medications, so insulin and other diabetes supplies were donated by IFL Australia. Future medications will be donated to the Lapu Lapu District Hospital who will dispense any of the donated supplies from their hospital to any prisoner requiring medication. Attached is an article from Diabetes Voice outlining IFL's work in the Philippines, written by Neil https://diabetesvoice.org//insulin-for-life-screens-priso/. Access to insulin is a human right. #savinglivesaroundtheworld #covid19 #IFLAus See more

14.01.2022 Good luck to Akiko, who runs 98 km (!!!) in Japan on Saturday November 14 in honour of World Diabetes Day. She is raising funds for Insulin for Life Here she is pictured training for the big day If you wish to support her efforts, you can do so below ... https://www.mycause.com.au//challenge-run-for-diabetes-care #InsulinforLife #savinglivearoundtheworld

14.01.2022 #ThrowbackThursday to one year ago! As we reflect back on all that has been achieved this year... this was a proud moment. Neil attended the Tallisay jail in Cebu to assist with screening prisoners for diabetes. 1,035 people were screened, and 74 were diagnosed with diabetes. Pictured, Neil is receiving a certificate from the jail warden. Access to health care is a human right. #diabetes #IFLAus #savinglivesaroundtheworld

13.01.2022 Happy holidays IFL friends! If you're still on the hunt for a meaningful holiday gift, please consider the IFL Secret Santa You will be able to personalise a certificate of donation to give to your family, friends, colleagues or clients so they know that their Secret Santa gift is giving the gift of life to someone living with diabetes in a poorer nation.... https://www.insulinforlife.org/secret-santa/ *Tax deductible in Australia #IFLSECRETSANTA

13.01.2022 Proud that the powerful story of Eurika, Bam Bam as she is known, from Cebu in the Philippines has been posted by our colleagues on the International Diabetes Aid Fund of Japan’s website. It is a very popular go-to diabetes Japanese website. One million people in Japan view this website every month! Over the years many other stories from IFL have been posted on this website. Please Follow Link https://dm-net.co.jp/idaf/act/update/1ifl.php... As expected, it’s all in Japanese. One million people in Japan view this website every month. Over the years many other stories, from IFL have been posted on this website.

13.01.2022 Just another Thursday at IFL Australia-shipment of 5 parcels has been sent to Cambodia. #savinglivesaroundtheworld #diabetes #IFLAus

12.01.2022 Another grateful recipient in the times of #COVID19 #savinglivesaround #InsulinForLife

12.01.2022 Education sessions held at the diabetes day camp in Bacolod, Philippines. This was held immediately afterwards the camp held in Dumaguete, Philippines. A team from Australia, Taiwan and the Philippines attended. #diabetes #InsulinforLifeAus #savinglivesaroundtheworld

11.01.2022 FIJI- A very large number of blood glucose test strips were donated from Pharmaceutical company TRIVIDIA to IFL Aus. 20,000 of these has been sent to Fiji for their country’s national diabetes program. We have also sent 4 matching meters with these. They are being delivered to the Fiji National Diabetes Center. This will assist with ongoing monitoring, screening programs and for use in women with gestational diabetes. There are very high rates of diabetes in Pacific Island Nations. #savinglivesaroundtheworld #InsulinforLifeAus

11.01.2022 IFL Secret Santa In an affluent country such as Australia even for families in the lower income bracket the cost of insulin, syringes and blood glucose testing supplies is less than 1% of the family income, thanks to subsidised care. In countries where this does not exist the cost is up to 14-times the total family income.... Without external support life for many with Type 1 diabetes is impossible. Your donation to the Insulin For Life Secret Santa can help save a life. Every $5* will support one person for 1 week’s diabetes supplies who lives in a poorer nation You will be able to personalise a certificate of donation to give to your family, friends, colleagues or clients so they know that their Secret Santa gift is giving the gift of life to someone living with diabetes in a poorer nation. https://www.insulinforlife.org/secret-santa/ *Tax deductible in Australia #IFLSECRETSANTA

10.01.2022 Hi IFL friends! Recently we had a thank you afternoon tea for Faye Kirkwood, who has retired from the Board of Insulin for Life Australia. We would like to thank Alicia Jenkins, President of IFL for personally covering the costs of the afternoon tea. Here's how Faye became involved....it's quite an interesting story.. Before IFL became incorporated, the 'International Insulin Distribution Program' started in 1984 and was growing quickly and Faye started helping Ron Raab who ...started the program with sorting and packing donated diabetes supplies at the International Diabetes Institute in Melbourne in the early 1990s. Without Faye’s contribution during those critical early days when networks were being established, the program would not reached its potential. They were able to get access to the old Caulfield hospital autopsy building which had two rooms, one large where they did the sorting and the other smaller one where there were body samples from many years previously! So it was quite an experience for them to both work together in that sort of atmosphere! After those rooms no longer were available they had access to a temporary shed owned by the Diabetes Institute. For quite some time, it was a very basic set up, with no dedicated facilities, using spare space wherever they could find it. The main thing though was that they were both very dedicated and managed to get the supplies packed and sent to people in great need overseas, many of who would otherwise have died. In 2000, when IFL was formally established, Faye was a founding Board Member, and took on a number of responsibilities including becoming Treasurer, which she continued with until her retirement from the Board in early 2019. Faye attended several international diabetes conferences overseas where IFL was seeking to expand its presence, through displays and other methods, and have its unique model adopted by other countries, which successfully happened repeatedly. In honour of Faye’s long-standing major contribution to the establishment and growth of IFL, a function was held at the beautiful old Windsor Hotel in Melbourne, and presented Faye with a number of gifts of appreciation including a plaque. Bruce Wainwright, another founding board member, was not able to participate on the day- we missed your company Bruce! Thanks again Faye and we wish you and Ian all the best for the future. From Ron, Neil, Alicia and Bruce and the expanded board of insulin for life Australia and Insulin for Life Global #savinglivesaroundtheworld #InsulinforLife

10.01.2022 What insulin distribution looks like currently in the Philippines during Covid-19 times! #Insulinforlife #savinglivesaroundtheworld

09.01.2022 4 parcels of donated supplies sent to and received in Goma. Supplies are sent to Kigali, Rwanda and then are picked up by the Association Des Diabetiques Du Congo (ADIC), through our contact Alfred, the Manager of the ADIC. Sending it to Rwanda is the most reliable option as there is ongoing civil unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo. #savinglivesaroundtheworld #InsulinforLifeAus

08.01.2022 Several months ago we sent a shipment by ship to Tondo, in Manila in the Philippines because there were no planes flying from Australia due to COVID-19. It has arrived a few weeks ago, and was delivered without incident. Many were desperate to receive the insulin and for those over the age of 65, the insulin was delivered to their homes as they are currently under lock down and unable to leave their residences. #savinglivesaroundtheworld #InsulinforLIfe

07.01.2022 Insulin sent and received by Negros Island Diabetes Association in Dumaguete City, Philippines. Patients pcitured waiting to pick up their donated supplies #savinglivesaroundtheworld

07.01.2022 Hi IFL friends, We hope you are all going okay -all our friends around the world- and those in lock down on our home turf in Melbourne. IFL Australia supplies are still getting through to some destinations. ... Covid-19 has had a huge impact on how we work these days (we will post more about this shortly to give you some insight on the behind the scenes). But here is a feel good story (we all need some of that right now!): This particular shipment of syringes traveled from Australia to Paris to their destination of the Central African Republic. Due to covid-19, we could only send by courier air freight which was surprisingly quick and reliable, and meant that the existing insulin they had on hand could be utilised. IFL Australia and Life For A Child Programme partnered to accomplish this one It's heartwarming to know that in such uncertain times we can still save lives. Here is an email we received confirming receipt. "Great news, we received an email from Dr Kouriah confirming that he received the 3000 syringes. On behalf of the young people and adolescents he says thank you to everyone.Thank you again Neil and IFL Australia for your kind donation. Take care everyone." #savinglivesaroundtheworld #InsulinforLife See more

07.01.2022 Insulin distribution day in the Philippines #savinglivesaroundtheworld #InsulinForLife

06.01.2022 The reality at times- Covid-19 has created further barriers in getting life saving insulin to those who need it most. We continue to strive to save lives. " Hi Neil, The person wearing a gray sweater last August 2020 distribution of insulin has a creatinine level of 5.0. He said he sometimes could not inject the right amount of insulin since their place is in Mabinay, Negros Oriental. ... When I texted him yesterday morning that the IFL insulin aide from Australia has arrived, it was his wife who answered back telling me that our NIDA INC. (Negros Island Diabetes Association) member, Jolito passed away last December 8, 2020. This is the first death that we encountered for NIDA INC. for 2021. We distributed the supplies yesterday and today. We told the members that we have to adjust the number of Lantus for each user since there are only 220 pens and there are only two boxes. The same for the Toujeo users. There are 4 NIDA INC. officers who took charge of the distribution in their respective areas "

06.01.2022 Virtual online FUVIDA diabetes camp in Ecuador. Wonderful that these children can still connect in the times of COVID-19. #savinglivesaroundtheworld #InsulinforLife

06.01.2022 So, how has our work at IFL Australia changed since Covid-19? Covid -19 has had a huge impact on our work at Insulin for Life Australia. We have had to destroy some insulin because it has expired, as we have been unable to send supplies. Many countries' borders have been closed, and have not been accepting ant supplies. Australia had also placed an embargo on certain countries. Thankfully, some restrictions have now been lifted and we have sent to Ecuador, the Central Afric...an Republic, Timor- Leste and Pacific Island nations. We pray that this situation only continues to improve. #savinglivesaroundtheworld #InsulinforLife

04.01.2022 As soon as Neil arrived back in Australia, he has been hard at work packing and sending supplies! New shipment of donated supplies off to Male, Maldives #diabetes #InsulinforLifeAus #savinglivesaroundtheworld

03.01.2022 What a powerful, meaningful story. Shortening it just wouldn't do it justice. This is all written word for word by Eurika herself. Eurika’s diabetes story. Eurika Briol, from Cebu in the Philippines. My name is Eurika, but everybody calls me Bam Bam. I’ve had diabetes for 18 years now, since I was 3 years old. My life with diabetes has never been easy, along the way I’ve encountered hardships, but I’ve always pulled...Continue reading

02.01.2022 Richstel’s Story - A Father’s Joy, and Inspiration. Twenty-three-year-old Richstel who had been living with diabetes from the age of 9 years, passed away in June 2020. Complications brought on by her condition, worsened, and Richstel pregnant, with her second child became another victim to this insidious disease, diabetes....Continue reading

01.01.2022 Hi friends! Neil has just returned from a jam packed trip to the Philippines. ALOT been achieved on this trip. Planning was done for another IFL trip planned for Jan- Feb 2020. ... Here is a summary: Sept 11-12: ~ 200 people were screened by IFL with the help of the ADEP (Association Diabetes Educators of the Philippines) in Tondo, a suburb of Manila City. ~ one third received free insulin from IFL. Sept 18: Meeting with the Mayor of Lapu-Lapu City in Cebu, Mr Junard Ahong Q regarding creating an IFL program in Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines Sept 20: IFL was invited to the Mayor’s free services day, which occurs every Friday in Lapu-Lapu City, in which local Doctors, Dental, Food providers, Legal advisers, Hairdressers, Masseurs who provide free assistance to the poor. IFL screened 80 potential people with diabetes. Visit at the Correctional institute in Lapu-Lapu City, meeting with the Vice Warden. They are keen to run a Blood Glucose screening program for their 2,500 inmates. There is also potential to grow our Screening Program in Cebu. We are excited to continue to grow our reach, and save more lives in the Philippines! 2020 here we come! #savinglivesaroundtheworld #diabetes #IFLAus