According to stats, there are 313,000 people in Haiti with diabetes.

Manny of TuDiabetes wrote yesterday:

I asked Ron Raab, President of Insulin for Life (an NGO that receives donations to help people worldwide who cannot afford insulin and diabetes supplies) what was being done to help people with diabetes in Haiti. This is what he replied a few minutes ago:

“We have today sent 2 parcels (1370 mls insulin and strips, meters, lancets, pens, pen needles, syringes) by DHL to Haiti, after talking with them by phone. The supplies should arrive in 4 days.

We have a destination and active senior contacts there. We will need funds to cover the transport and handling costs of our sending ongoing donated supplies there. Donations can be via Pay Pal via our site www.insulinforlife.org.”

As you know, I’m a big fan of insulinforlife.org already and I donate there every year. I’m heading off there again now to make another donation. I encourage you all to do the same – even if it’s just $10.

Note: the donation from insulinforlife.org is calculated in Australian dollars. To work out how much you want to spend before you donate, here is a good currency converter: http://www.xe.com/ucc/