Peterborough Girl Selected As One Of 100 Ambassadors For JDRF's 'Lets Make History Again' Campaign

Tilly Stimpson, a grade 9 student at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School, will join the 'Let’s Make History Again' campaign, hosted by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), as one of the 100 Ambassadors of History.

When Stimpson was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes at two-years-old her father Matt says it was devastating.

“I had been living with it for a number of years, and Shay - our nurse at PRHC - said ‘you’re already on page 50 of a 100 page book’ because of what I had been going through,” said Matt. “We knew how to manage the disease, but kids are a whole different can of worms.”

“Living with diabetes is definitely difficult,” said Stimpson. “It’s a 24/7 disease, you always have to be on it, checking your blood sugars and making sure you’re ok. I don’t think you’re ever not thinking about diabetes, your mind is always set on it.”

Both Matt and Tilly hope that through fundraising researchers will find a cure for diabetes, and they wont have to rely on insulin daily.

Tilly hopes that anyone that wants to join her in her climb does so. Photo by Angela O’Grady.

2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the first injection of insulin.

To mark the milestone JDRF is hosting the ‘Lets Make History Again Campaign’ which aims to raise money that will fund valuable research to fund a cure for Type One Diabetes.

The 100 Ambassadors of History, which is the group Stimpson has been asked to join, are a special group of Canadians who will each host their own fundraiser to contribute to the campaign.

Stimpson has decided that this year she will climb the steps of The Lift Lock once for every $100 donated to her campaign. As of Thursday she has raised $1267.

While Stimpson and her father Matt don’t have a set monetary goal the Let’s Make History Again campaign has a total goal of $100 million.

To donate to Tilly’s fundraiser click here.

Follow Tilly’s journey on her Instagram page @diabetes.the.bully.

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