SANOFI will organize on April 7, on the occasion of the V Edition of the Experience Day Diabetes in Barcelona, a series of workshops to make more than 200 children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes to superheroes. The activity will consist of the performance of a workshopof circus taught by professionals of the “Cultural Association Esplai de Circ” and framed in the educational project Diguan.
Young people can experience beyond what they believe are their own limits, such as authentic superheroes.They can "fly", jumping in an elastic bed, perform acrobatic pirouettes from a trapeze or dominate the balance technique through a floating corner.With this workshop it is intended to raise the little ones of the importance of performing physical exercise, one of the fundamental pillars for the control of diabetes.
The workshops will be divided by ages and will take place throughout the day of the Experience Day diabetes held at the Fira Palace in Barcelona in Montjuic.
Diguan, a project promoted by the Spanish Diabetes Society (SED), the Spanish Pediatric Endocrinology Society (SEEP), the Spanish Diabetes Federation (Fede) and which has the collaboration of Sanofi, will return one more year to the most important event to the most important eventof patients from Spain.
social networks to debate
Sanofi will also organize that same day a debate on the risks and opportunities of social networks for adolescents with diabetes.Locked at Diabetes Experience Day Teens, almost a hundred teenagers will participate in an interesting debate about how social networks can help in diabetes control.
The activity will be coordinated by the psychologist Iñaki Lorente, the pediatric endocrine of the Aragonese Health Service, Santiago Conde and the diabetes educator of the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona, Daria Roca.
The main objective of Diguan is to promote therapeutic education and reinforce the importance of adhesion in adolescents with type 1 diabetes, and at the same time publicize diabetes to the personal and social environment of the adolescent, thus facilitating the normalization of the disease.