Expedition to the youth Andes with diabetes

A group made up of Uruguayan young people with type 1 diabetes will perform an unprecedented educational expedition to the Andes Mountains, where the remains of the 1972 plane crash are still found.

The mission, organized by the Diabetes del Uruguay Foundation, seeks to reaffirm the premise "with diabetes you can!".

For six days on the mountain with four and eight hours a day walks, young people will share group experiences in search of their personal growth in relation to the treatment of diabetes, since they must overcome very adverse climatic conditions a thousands of meters high in themountain.

The expedition will leave this Saturday 21 at the 6.25 time from Tres Cruces (Montevideo) and will return to Uruguay on March 29.

The group is made up of nine members of the Foundation, including three people with type 1 diabetes (insulin -dependent): Alejandro Duera (15), Francisco Lurato (32) and Abayubá Rodríguez (46).

Different motivations will take them to go to the Andes, from “learning from other people with diabetes” to sharing “six days of survival and expedition with people suffering” their same disease.

It is interesting to spread the trip of these young people to share with all Uruguayans this enriching educational experience.

Bayer supports, for the second consecutive year, this new challenge made by the Diabetes Foundation of Uruguay.

For more information contact Giselle Mosegui, president of the Diabetes Uruguay Foundation, at 099113699.

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