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In 2017 we celebrate the World Awareness Day this way:

THANK YOU TO ALL THAT WERE INVOLVED IN THIS CAMPAIGN!

VERY IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ IF YOU USE OUR
World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day Toolkit:



Our work is publicly available to help the CDG community and related rare disease communities. Importantly, we do not receive government funding. We rely solely on donations in order to continue our projects.

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Consider to make a donation using Paypal, debit or credit card or bank transfer. 
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Your donation will help fund advocacy efforts, awareness, education and research. All details are found at www.apcdg.com/donate.html THANKS!
The resources cannot be used for commercial purposes.
​For further questions or suggestions please contact: sindromecdg@gmail.com​

 Spread World CDG Awareness Day 2017


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Official poster for World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day.
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To Send by Email:
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For USA:
  • Download: HERE
For around the World:
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To Web:
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Plan an event for 16th May as the annual
World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day


Plenty of activities can be done on 16th May for a World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day 2017!

REMEMBER, the materials may not be used for commercial or fundraising purposes.
Do you plan or do you want to plan an event to reinforce our request among the World Health Organization (WHO)  to declare 16th May as the annual World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day?

We can help you communicating and disseminating your event, or we can give ideas to set up an activity.

In that case write us to: worldcdgawareness@gmail.com

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Nothing will be as before! United to celebrate the 16th May as the World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day

EXPOSE OUR RESOURCES ABOUT CDG WITHIN LOCAL SCHOOLS, MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS, RESEARCH CENTERS OR YOUR WORK PLACE

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EVENTS WORLDWIDE

SUPPORT OUR RESEARCH THROUGH OUR ONLINE CDG FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN

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Fundraising benefit our organization greatly, as our non-profit association survives solely on the generosity and donations of our members, friends and family.  

Only 2 clicks at http://www.apcdg.com/get-involved1.html , and your friends and colleagues can make a huge difference in our CDG patients and families lives. It’s quick, easy, secure and you'll be contributing today!
How you can help us?
  • By sharing within your network the link of our website dedicated to collect donations http://www.apcdg.com/get-involved1.html
  • By making a single donation
  • By donating specifically to one research project. You can choose amongst the current project with whom we are partnering
  • By supporting our Fundraising CDG infusion campaign! (we only distribute CDG infusions across Europe. Our colleagues from CDG Care (USA) will deliver within USA).
In order to safeguard against fraud, all fundraising initiatives must be requested and authorized in advance. Additionally, partnership agreements to guarantee transparency are mandatory. To propose a fundraiser initiative, please contact us at sindromecdg@gmail.com

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CDG International Awareness Symbol is available on CDG CARE website


Tips to raise CDG awareness using Social Media on 16th May:
  1. Join us on Facebook (a page for this purpose will be soon available) 
  2. Use the CDG International Awareness Symbol on your Facebook profile picture & Twitter 
  3. Shop at CDG Community Store!! Help Raise CDG Awareness through the CDG Community Store (teddy bear, shirts, and more) available at CDG Care website 

Email signature:

How to get the Email signature that supports 16th May as the World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day?
  • By clicking directly in the image on your right, you can choose and save the email signature that suits you.

The Benefits of an Email Signature:
  1. An email signature shows your support to this initiative.
  2. An email signature is a promotion tool for our cause.
  3. An email signature is also a social networking tool.

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How to get the Email signature that supports 16th May as the World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day?
  • By clicking directly in the image on your right, you can choose and save the email signature that suits you.

Advantages of using this Facebook advertising:
  • The big advantage of Facebook advertising is how super-targeted we can make it.
  • We will see our potential reach.
  • It snowballs.

7 key reasons on why a World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day matters:


  1. The most common type of CDG , named PMM2-CDG, affects about one in 20,000 people. So far, only around 900 patients  have been accurately identified with PMM2-CDG. This suggests that many CDGs cases are under-or misdiagnosed than what is documented.
  2. Many CDG patients and their family members wait a long time until their condition is diagnosed, partly because many clinicians do not recognise the conditions and do not interpret the symptoms correctly.
  3. The close family and friends of a CDG patient, who are wonderfully supportive, most probably are not able to name what our beloved CDG patients have, or how it functions in their body.
  4. The probability to find a health care provider that knows what is CDG is extremely low.
  5. Most forms of CDG do not have a treatment.  Thus, quality of life and survival of CDG patients depend on research and funding.
  6. Given the scarce research funding currently available for rare diseases, diseases with lack of awareness such as CDG, represents a particular challenge for researchers working in this area.
  7. The research, the funding, and hopefully, the cures will come, but not if CDG remain unknown amongst the society! A World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day is urgently needed it!

16th May, the day of birth of Pf Jaak Jaeken, is the proposed day for the World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day.

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Support us and Sign our Online Public Petition during the month of February 2017 and available at: https://www.change.org/p/congenital-disorders-of-glycosylation-cdg-world-awareness-day-on-may-16th
The necessary documentation for CDG patient advocacy groups, their representatives, families, friends and professionals to support this public petition is found at http://www.apcdg.com/world-cdg-awareness-day.html . Please read the manifesto and use the communication material publicly available for this purpose.
REMEMBER, the materials may not be used for commercial or fundraising purposes.

Handprints World CDG Awareness Day 2017

Our photo gallery: Put your heart into raising awareness for CDG ​
MORE 300 PARTICIPATIONS!

Go green! Think CDG! ©Campaign

16th May is a great reason to spread green!

Go green! 

Go green! Think CDG!© is a CDG community campaign that encourages people to use green to show support for children and adults affected with Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG).

​Wear green, decorate the house with green lights, and put green ribbons and balloons on trees. Turn the town green for our CDG children and adults. Get creative. Put 16th May on the map HERE.
Have a suggestion or question? Email us at: 
worldcdgawareness@gmail.com
​Let’s work together to spread the word about CDG, increasing research efforts and pushing us closer to more treatments and cures!
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Why green? 

Green is an emotionally positive color, giving us the ability to love and nurture ourselves and others unconditionally. This is what CDG families do every day with strength and determination!

“The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.”-by Rumi.
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Join us in supporting all of the families who have a beloved one with CDG.  Help us raise awareness.

Volunteer World CDG Awareness Day


Volunteer

Get the satisfaction of making a real difference in CDG children and adults lives while helping us volunteering for the World CDG Awareness Day. 

Press kit and support for the 16th May as the annual
World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day


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"Awareness for CDG is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed".- adapted from Thich Nhat Hanh


Do you plan or do you want to plan an event to reinforce our request among the World Health Organization (WHO)  to declare 16th May as the annual World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day?

We can help you communicating and disseminating your event, or we can give ideas to set up an activity.

In that case write us to: worldcdgawareness@gmail.com

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Nothing will be as before! United to celebrate the 16th May as the World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day

Responsible for Media and Communication Resources

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Fiona Waddell represents CDG within VKS, the Dutch Umbrella organization for metabolic diseases. When she was fifteen years old Fiona was diagnosed with MPI-CDG. She was the second patient in the world who was diagnosed with this illness.

Fiona was the first CDG patient who has had a liver transplant and due to the liver transplant, now she can lead a healthy life . She is journalist and our current major goal is to boost awareness for CDG community by (1) representing CDG within major leading Rare disease events, (2) volunteering in the production of many resources for CDG and (3) being responsible for media and communication resources for the 3rd World Conference on CDG 2017.

Read more about Fiona at the Rare Commons interview "CDG patient Fiona hopes to create greater CDG awareness by using her journalistic skills"
Fiona's biography is available at http://www.fionawaddell.net/Pagina/Biografie.htm

Email: worldcdgawareness@gmail.com

"CDG is the prototype of condition that cries out for urgent visibility and awareness-raising actions", emphasizes Alfredo Ferreira, father to a CDG patient.

ADVOCATE FOR CDG TO GOVERNMENT LEADERS, OR THE NEWS MEDIA

REMEMBER, the materials may not be used for commercial or fundraising purposes.
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Advocating for CDG to government leaders: we really want to encourage everyone in our patient community to email, mail a letter or call their elected officials to address some concerns of our rare disease community. Soon we will have a template letter for this purpose. 

In Portugal, Correio do Cidadão is an easy system for you to email a letter on issues that concern you to your elected parliamentary groups and to the Republic Assembly president for Rare Disease Day.
 
In USA, Rare Disease Legislative Associates (RDLA) and Congress web have an excellent system for you to email a letter on issues that concern you to your elected officials for Rare Disease Day. The Global Genes Project has a print and online collaborative resource that educates patient community on how to bring rare disease to capitol hill. 
Template letter for Government and Media

Goal: Write your government representatives and Media to explain why CDG and related rare diseases are important and why they need to pay more attention on this group of diseases.The template letter is also available in Spanish, French and Portuguese. 

Please write us to access to the Word document and to receive more tips on how to address your letter: worldcdgawareness@gmail.com
Template letter for Government and Media in English to Advocate for CDG and Rare Diseases
template_letter_for_government_in_english_fv.pdf
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"Society needs to know that Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) is a serious cause of death and disability. Patients and family members, suffer directly the consequences of living with a disease, for which the most forms do not have a cure", highlights Rosália Félix, mother to Princess Liliana (Portugal).

Symbol "16th May as the annual World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day" 

Photo
CDG International Awareness Symbol is available on CDG CARE website


Tips to raise CDG awareness using Social Media on 16th May:
  1. Join us on Facebook (a page for this purpose will be soon available) 
  2. Use the CDG International Awareness Symbol on your Facebook profile picture & Twitter 
  3. Shop at CDG Community Store!! Help Raise CDG Awareness through the CDG Community Store (teddy bear, shirts, and more) available at CDG Care website 

7 key reasons on why a World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day matters:


  1. The most common type of CDG , named PMM2-CDG, affects about one in 20,000 people. So far, only around 900 patients  have been accurately identified with PMM2-CDG. This suggests that many CDGs cases are under-or misdiagnosed than what is documented.
  2. Many CDG patients and their family members wait a long time until their condition is diagnosed, partly because many clinicians do not recognise the conditions and do not interpret the symptoms correctly.
  3. The close family and friends of a CDG patient, who are wonderfully supportive, most probably are not able to name what our beloved CDG patients have, or how it functions in their body.
  4. The probability to find a health care provider that knows what is CDG is extremely low.
  5. Most forms of CDG do not have a treatment.  Thus, quality of life and survival of CDG patients depend on research and funding.
  6. Given the scarce research funding currently available for rare diseases, diseases with lack of awareness such as CDG, represents a particular challenge for researchers working in this area.
  7. The research, the funding, and hopefully, the cures will come, but not if CDG remain unknown amongst the society! A World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day is urgently needed it!

16th May, the day of birth of Pf Jaak Jaeken, is the proposed day for the World Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Awareness Day.

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Support us and Sign our Online Public Petition during the month of February 2016 and available at: https://www.change.org/p/congenital-disorders-of-glycosylation-cdg-world-awareness-day-on-may-16th
The necessary documentation for CDG patient advocacy groups, their representatives, families, friends and professionals to support this public petition is found at http://www.apcdg.com/world-cdg-awareness-day.html . Please read the manifesto and use the communication material publicly available for this purpose.
REMEMBER, the materials may not be used for commercial or fundraising purposes.

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  • Resources
    • Rare CDG
    • Publications
    • Guia Metabolica
    • CDG Facts
    • Task Force CDG Communication >
      • PMM2-CDG (CDG Ia)
      • PGM1-CDG (CDG It)
      • ALG6-CDG (CDG Ic)
  • EDUCATION
  • Awareness
    • Get involved World CDG Awareness Day 2019 >
      • Go Social World CDG Awareness Day 19
      • Spread World CDG Awareness Day 19
      • Plan An Event World CDG Awareness Day 19
      • Frame your CDG Awareness Campaign 19
      • Go green! Think CDG! ©Campaign 19
      • Volunteer World CDG Awareness Day 19
      • Press kit World CDG Awareness Day 19
    • Map of events for World CDG Awareness Day 2019
    • CrowdCDG
    • Awareness Day 2018
    • Awareness Day 2017
    • Awareness Day 2016
    • Rare Diseases
  • Community
    • Join Us - Membership
    • CDG Patient Groups
    • Empowerment
  • Events
    • 1st CDG Satellite Meeting
    • Speakers - World Conference on CDG 2019
    • Registrations - World Conference on CDG 2019
    • Poster submission - World Conference on CDG 2019
    • Follow up - World Conference on CDG 19
    • Volunteer Registration - World Conference on CDG 2019
    • Previous Edition World Conference on CDG 2017 >
      • Follow up - World Conference on CDG 17
      • Speakers - World Conference on CDG 17
  • DONATE
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