Ledcor and Variety – the Children’s Charity in British ColumbiaAlberta / Saskatchewan and Ontario jointly announced that Ledcor would be donating $1.25 Million over 5 years to provide new innovative glucose monitoring technology to low income families with young children living with Type 1 diabetes.

“Variety steps in where health care ends by providing medical equipment to families in need,” said Cally Wesson, Variety BC’s CEO. “Demand for lifesaving medical equipment for kids living with T1D has been increasing, and has been hard to meet, especially because most families cannot afford a continuous glucose monitors.”

According to statistics from the Canadian Pediatric Society, 33,000 school age children (5-18 years old) in Canada have Type 1 Diabetes and there are several thousand under the age of 5.