Stefany Shaheen

It is time to replenish Elle’s diabetes supplies.  We are down to one vial of insulin, two boxes of pump sites and we just refilled her prescription for test strips.  The battery on her pump died tonight too and it continued to beep until we finally found a replacement battery in the basement.  I could not help imagining what I would do if we were in Haiti without a home, food, water and insulin, needles, test strips and glucose needles.  For diabetics, testing supplies are as essential to survival as potable water, food and shelter.

The suffering that people are enduring in earthquake ravaged Haiti is unimaginable.  To avoid further death and destruction, it is imperative that the 300,000 Haitians living with diabetes have access to life saving medication.  I applaud the heroic efforts made by the International Diabetes Federation, Insulin for Life and the Haitian Foundation for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases to get these supplies to people coping with astonishing devastation while managing this disease.

To help ensure that Haitian families are able to access diabetes supplies today, I am going to make a contribution to the IDF Diabetes Trust Fund:

http://www.idf.org/donate-idf-diabetes-trust-fund-haiti

I encourage you to join me in making a donation today to guarantee that families like mine who happen to be living in Haiti and are facing unprecedented destruction have one less thing to worry about tonight.