The Importance of Feeding Your Grassroots | Gráinne Flynn | TEDxUniversityCollegeCork скачать в хорошем качестве

The Importance of Feeding Your Grassroots | Gráinne Flynn | TEDxUniversityCollegeCork

Gráinne Flynn shares her journey of living with diabetes, having to self-advocate, how this led to advocating for others and what she learned about the importance of fostering and empowering others to do the same. Gráinne Flynn has been living with diabetes since 1993 and lives in Co. Clare, Ireland. Gráinne started volunteering with Diabetes Ireland (the Irish national charity for people with diabetes) in 2007 and helped to set up local support groups and information events. She began blogging about her life with diabetes on BloodSugarTrampoline.com in 2010 and co-founded Thriveabetes; an Irish diabetes community-led conference in 2014 that has, to date, organised five successful national conferences. She also volunteers on the Diabetes Ireland Advocacy Group, the National Transfusion Advisory Group and the Diabetes Self-Management Alliance conference organising committee. In 2020, Grainne went back to education is currently doing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Administration and Communications. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx