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A YOUNG diabetes sufferer has become a charity youth ambassador in a bid to help raise awareness of the condition.
Matthew Rooney, from Up Holland, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was just four.
Now the Year 5 pupil, who has to inject himself with insulin four times a day, is helping support juvenile diabetes charity JDRF, which funds research to develop a cure for the condition.
The 10-year-old has already given a presentation to his class and raised over ?500 for the charity through a school non-uniform day and a bring-and-buy coffee evening with his grandma Stella.
http://www.osadvertiser.co.uk/news/...elp-find-a-cure-for-condition-80904-32495999/
Matthew Rooney, from Up Holland, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was just four.
Now the Year 5 pupil, who has to inject himself with insulin four times a day, is helping support juvenile diabetes charity JDRF, which funds research to develop a cure for the condition.
The 10-year-old has already given a presentation to his class and raised over ?500 for the charity through a school non-uniform day and a bring-and-buy coffee evening with his grandma Stella.
http://www.osadvertiser.co.uk/news/...elp-find-a-cure-for-condition-80904-32495999/