The Diabetes and Novo Nordisk Foundation have granted, for the second consecutive year, Diabcamp scholarships, an aid that will allow more than 100 children and young people between 7 and 17 years old to attend summer camps organized by diabetic associations throughout Spain.The goal is to learn to control and live with their illness.
With this initiative, the Diabetes and Novo Nordisk Foundation seek that children who attend these diabetological education camps improve their self -esteem and autonomy to face the day to day of this chronic disease, in a playful context in which they relate toOther guys in the same conditions.
Diabetes is the second most frequent chronic disease in childhood.In our country it affects some 30,000 children, a figure that increases every year by approximately 1,500 new cases.Each new patient requires an arduous period of adaptation, information and learning of the disease, which significantly affects the child but also their whole family.A proof of this is that 60% of the mothers of diabetic children are forced to stop working in order to support the child in this difficult adaptation stage.
It is in this complicated period that Diabcamp scholarships provide special support for families, since they are especially aimed at children and young people from families with less economic resources and recently diagnosed.In the concession of the scholarships, families that have more than one diabetic child are also priority.
The camps develop in the appropriate playful environment that allows children to enjoy fun vacations while learning to self -apply insulin and modify doses and mixtures depending on their glycemic profiles, as well as the benefits of regulating physical exercise on their metabolic control, among other activities.
Becados children with the Diabcamp scholarships can attend camps developed throughout this summer by the Diabetic Associations of A Coruña, Cataluña, Madrid, Malaga, Murcia, Navarra, Sevilla, Huelva, Orihuela and Region, Toledo, Valladolid, Asturias, Ferrol, Salamanca, Valencia and Vizcaya and for the Federations of Diabetics Associations of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Extremadura and Galicia.