Emma Bruty is walking for a world without type 1 diabetes

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I'm walking in Melbourne to turn type one into type none!

I'm joining the world's largest walk for a future without type 1 diabetes (T1D) at Princes Park on Sunday 2 March 2025! I will be joining 80,000 people across Australia in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's (JDRF) One Walk Step Challenge, to raise funds to help find a cure for Type 1. I have had diabetes for 34 years and my father has had it for over 53 years.

Because this is something that affects us directly - as well as countless others - I'm up for doing something practical to help!

In case it isn't obvious - why Type 1 (also known as juvenile) diabetes?

We need to find a cure for the 140,000 Australian children and adults living with Type 1 diabetes, because...

* Type 1 is an auto-immune disease, and cannot be prevented
* the long term complications of diabetes can include blindness, kidney failure and nerve damage
* people with Type 1 diabetes need multiple insulin injections every day, just to stay alive
* insulin is not a cure for Type 1 diabetes – there is currently no cure

Do I need any more reasons? Your donation will fund vital research, which will one day find a cure - hopefully in my lifetime (and Dad's, and my cousins, and friends...you get the gist!)! I'd be very surprised if you don't know someone who's diabetic - besides me, of course! ? And if they're Type 1, your donation will help them too!