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Lavalava Me Up

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Together we can help our Pacific community beat Type 2 Diabetes

Auckland

January 2017 is the month that doctors told my parents to change or die.

February 2017 is the month and year that will forever be remembered as the turning point for my parents.

February 2017 is also the month and year that their journey started.

We all seek a happy life and let's be honest a unhealthy life is not a happy life. Their journey was not easy due to there medical conditions and I told them it's going to be a long road due to this. They looked at me and said they need this for themselves and to be around for us kids.I was not going to see them lose this fight.

I hope you are inspired by their hard work and be motivated to get started cause no matter how old or how big you are it's never to late to start.

Due to this I have started Lavalava Me Up. This is to help raise awareness of type 2 diabetes within our Polynesian community.

Diabetes is a troubling problem within our community. It not only affects the elderly as so many believe but also the young ones who are yet to grow up. In helping to raise awareness of this problem we are encouraging those young ones to learn and live a healthy lifestyle by making informed choices that will affect their growth and future.

Join me in helping to make this event awesome so that we can combat this problem together as one!! God bless and please feel free to share this page as we need to let the message out loud and clear!!

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About us

Diabetes NZ Auckland Branch provides support and information to thousands of Aucklanders across the region. Not just to the near 100,000 living with diabetes, but to everyone who is at risk.

We provide a range of services to support those that need it and to raise awareness of the risk factors associated with diabetes, including our Mobile Diabetes Awareness Service van, which engages with local communities across the region. We also run HOPE (Healthy Options = Positive Eating), a programme which encourages positive lifestyle choices aimed at families.

Diabetes Youth Auckland is a part of our organisation, which provides support, events and services for families and the 900+ young people living with diabetes, most of whom have type 1 diabetes.

The reality is that we receive no government funding. Please help us work towards a future where fewer people develop diabetes and those that have diabetes Live Well.