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Mission: Slimpossible

Proceeds benefit Nevada Diabetes Association

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Based on 10 pounds, each worth $124.90

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Help me complete my mission!

Your mission: should you chose to accept it, is to help me raise funds for my favorite charity, the Nevada and California Diabetes Association. All funds raised will stay local and go directly to programs, services and campership funds.

My mission: which I chose to accept, is simple. I am bettering myself, getting healthy, and losing weight while raising money for an organization I truly care about. I am asking YOU to sponsor ME so that together, WE can send children with type 1 diabetes to camp. With every pound I lose, the Nevada Diabetes Association gains!

A little bit about me. If you do not know me already, my name is Tara Winkelman, I am 37 years old and I am the Director of Programs for the Nevada Diabetes Association. I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes on August 7th, 1984, when I was just 5 years old. I started going to diabetes camp a year later in 1985 with the help of my dance teacher Miss Marcia Sarosik. Marcia used the proceeds of her dance recitals to send me, along with 2 other friends (Angie and Ivy), to diabetes camp…yes, the same camp I am still part of.

Now, it’s my turn to give back. It’s no secret that I struggle with my weight. I’ve tried every “diet” there is, tried to work out, tried this, tried that…all with failed results. Well, I refuse to give up! There are kids counting on me to lose the weight so I can help send them to the same camp I went to as a child. My focus has a purpose. I can’t express to you how important camp is to a child. Camp is where you don’t feel alone as a Type 1 diabetic, where you learn how to manage your disease, where you meet kids just like you and form lifelong friendships! Camp is also a place to learn how to do your own injections, change your own pump sites, and further your diabetes education. I know that without camp, I wouldn’t be the person I am today.

Schedule

DateNamepoundsEarned
3/311st weigh in3$375
4/142nd weigh in3$375
4/283rd weigh in 2$250
5/124th weigh in0-
5/26Final weigh in2$250

This campaign benefits

Nevada Diabetes Association

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The Mission of the Nevada Diabetes Association and California Diabetes Association is to improve the lives of children and adults affected by diabetes through prevention, education and service. The goal of the NDA and CDA is to provide programming that will help avoid complications that this disease causes for children and adults. We offer diabetes education camping programs, diabetes support programs, diabetes seminars/workshops, printed and electronic diabetes educational resources, emergency insulin and diabetes supply programming.

Contributions made to this campaign are tax-deductible.

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