Diabetes UK
Diabetes is hard. Hard to explain. Hard to manage.
Hard to live with. We’re here to make it easier.
More people have diabetes than ever before, not only that but the number of people experiencing complications or dying because of diabetes is growing.
As the UK’s leading diabetes charity, they strive to tackle the challenges people face by providing information, advice and most importantly support to those with all types of diabetes, enabling them to learn to live well in their condition.
Since 1996, the number of people with diabetes in the UK has more than doubled from 1.4 million to 3.8 million. If nothing changes, by 2025 five million of us will have diabetes. Diabetes is the fastest growing health threat of our times and an urgent public health issue.
Type 1 – Develops when the insulin-producing cells in the body have been destroyed and the body is not able to produce insulin. Type 1 diabetes is treated by injecting insulin or using an insulin pump.
Type 2 – Develops when the body makes some insulin but not able to properly work or there isn’t enough of it. Some mange with a healthy diet, physical activities and if needed by losing weight. But the longer you have it the more likely you will need medication.
Diabetes is far more serious than people think and can have a life-limiting or life-threatening impact on your health if it’s not managed well. It can make you go blind or lose a limb, cause your kidneys to fail or trigger a heart attack or stroke. In the worst cases, it can kill you.
Registered Charity No. 215199
Our Vision
A world of protection and opportunity for children living alone and at risk on the streets.
Railway Children is an international children's charity. We fight for vulnerable children who live alone at risk on the streets, where they suffer abuse and exploitation.
In the UK, society often denies their existence, and in other countries the problem is so prevalent that it has become 'normal'.
They run away or are forced to leave homes where they suffer poverty, violence, abuse and neglect. They find themselves living on the streets because there is nowhere else to go and no one left to turn to. The problems they face on the streets are often even worse than those they endured at home. Every day we fight to change their story.
Railway Children race to reach children as soon as they arrive on the streets and intervene before an abuser can. Our pioneering work enables us to get to street children before the streets get to them.
What if I change my mind?
Simply by completing a donation form, you can choose to support Railway Children, directly from your pay.
For more information
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