Ah yes, MVictors.com will be a distinguished beverage sponsor at this year’s Golf Classic supporting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). It’s a great event held on Monday June 11 at the beautiful Franklin Hills Country Club. Detroit Lion back Kevin Jones will be the honorary guest.
Interested in helping out with JDRF? Email the MVictors.com webmaster, or contact JDRF Detroit or find a local chapter in your area. Here’s more about JDRF and its mission:
JDRF is the leading charitable funder and advocate of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes research worldwide. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Type 1 diabetes is a disease which strikes children suddenly and requires multiple injections of insulin daily or a continuous infusion of insulin through a pump. Insulin, however, is not a cure for diabetes, nor does it prevent its eventual and devastating complications which may include kidney failure, blindness, heart disease, stroke, and amputation.
Since its founding in 1970 by parents of children with type 1 diabetes, JDRF has awarded more than $1 billion to diabetes research, including more than $122 million in FY2006. In FY2006, the Foundation funded 500 centers, grants and fellowships in 20 countries.
