JDRF (Junior Diabetes Research Foundation) have launched an online animation tool enabling people to create between 1 and 5 seconds of animation with a tool box of assets, background and uploaded photo’s, which they can then send to a friend who can then carry on the story, like an online animated game of consequences! The new tool is aimed at raising awareness or type 1 Diabetes and JDRF.
JDRF is a global charity that funds research into finding a cure for type 1 diabetes. New research reveals that less than a third of UK residents (30 per cent) know of type 1 diabetes with a further 59 per cent confusing the autoimmune condition with type 2 diabetes – which can be related to obesity and lack of exercise.
Type 1 diabetes can strike at any age and there is currently no cure. Currently approximately 350,000 people in the UK have it including over 25,000 children.
Men are the most uneducated about the condition, with only 28 per cent correctly identifying it compared with 32 per cent of women. Nearly one in ten men think that type 1 diabetes is caused by eating too much sugar whilst nearly six in ten men and women believe that it is related to obesity. Those aged under 25 have the least awareness with 78 per cent incorrectly identifying the condition whereas those aged 45 to 54 have the highest levels of awareness of type 1 characteristics (36 per cent).
Find out more, and tell your story, at:
http://www.jdrfaware.com/default.aspx