Last Updated on April 24, 2024
Valentine’s Day is a wonderful holiday to show your significant other how much you love them. This year it’s estimated that there will be over 198 million roses sold to celebrate February 14th. Aside from buying your loved one’s chocolate, you can also make a huge impact on diabetics across the globe.
The Life for a Child program is looking to make Valentine’s Day into something more than a gift-giving holiday. The Life of A Child program is continuing their annual Valentine’s Day fundraising campaign, “Spare a Rose, Save a Child” which combines buying roses for your sweetie while also providing necessary equipment to diabetics across the globe.
The goal of Spare a Rose, Save a Child is to raise awareness and money for the Life for a Child program. Spare a Rose does this through encouraging people to buy one less rose than they typically would, and use that money to make an impact in the diabetic community. The campaign runs from February 1st through February 14th.
The website for the campaign lists two specific ways that anyone can get involved. The first is by making a donation to the Life for a Child program. There are different donation options available, monthly and a one-time gift for Valentine’s Day. Obviously raising money is one of the best ways to help the campaign, but it’s not the only way.
The other way that you can help with the campaign is by raising awareness in your community or workplace. You can do this through social media, and using the hashtag #SpareARose. The campaign has created easy to use share imagines and profile banners that you can use on your Facebook and Twitter to raise awareness to those outside of the diabetic community. Using these social media share images and hashtags are a quick and easy way to get involved in the campaign. They have even created a short movie clip or business cards that you can use.
The Life for a Child program, which is a part of the International Diabetes Federation, focuses on giving treatments and medications to children in developing countries that wouldn’t be able to affordable the supplies otherwise. Every donation to the program no matter how small can make a huge impact on children in developing countries. According to the website, for only $1 the organization can provide a child with either insulin, clinical care, education materials, glucose monitoring equipment, or more. The website states that less than 5% of donations go to administration costs.
One great way to spread awareness for the cause is to host your fundraiser at your work. The website has all the materials you’ll need to raise awareness in your workplace. They even provide “rewards” suggestions if your coworkers raise a certain amount of money.
Instead of spending so much money on flowers, candy, and a card, set aside a little of your Valentine’s Day money to help kids in developing countries. The program has several touching stories from doctors and parents across the world about the impact the program has made,
“We feel truly blessed to have you in our lives. Before Life for A Child sponsored us, I would worry where our children would get the insulin and supplies they needed to live. Every month the children receive a gift from you, a gift just as precious as the gifts the wise men brought to the stable in Bethlehem many years ago.”
This is only one of the heartwarming stories that the website features. Spend some time speaking to your Valentine’s Day date about spending some money changing lives instead of a dozen roses.
