Every two years, over a hundred children with type 1 diabetes gather in Washington, D.C. to meet face-to-face with some of the top decision-makers in the U.S. government. As participants in JDRF’s Children’s Congress, these children have a unique and empowering opportunity to help Members of Congress understand what life with type 1 diabetes is like and why research to find the cure for diabetes and its complications is so critical.
The mission of the Promise to Remember Me Campaign is to further relationships between people who are affected by diabetes and their lawmakers. Families affected by this disease will meet with their Representatives and Senators during local town hall meetings, in local offices, and at events throughout the country.
Our hope is that the Promise to Remember Me Campaign will put a face to the millions of Americans who live with the disease and result in commitments by Members of Congress to support federal policies that will speed our path to a cure.
"All across America, in hundreds of congressional districts in all fifty states, Representatives and Senators have started to see children instead of statistics, and begun to care about diabetes in much the same way that you and I do. The results have been extraordinary."
— Molly Naylor, Chair, Promise to Remember Me Campaign
2003 Bay Area Media Lead for JDRF's Children’s Congress
(part of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s “Promise to Remember Me” Campaign)
