DOER

PROFILE

DANIELLE\ ENSON

six months ago, I had 15 inches cut off
as a donation."

City: Oak Park
Kudos: Walking Sunday

What does it mean to you to receive
fund-raising awards from JDRF and
the Humanitarian Award for
Community Service presented to you at
graduation time from Berkley High
School last spring?
"It means I'm making a difference —
working toward a cure. And I'll keeping
doing it. I don't want anyone else to
have this disease." II

At age 18, Daniel Levenson has spent the
nine years since he was diagnosed with
diabetes And-raising, making others
aware of the disease and working on the
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's
ORO Walk to Cure Diabetes.

How did you get involved in the
annual walkathon, occurring this year
on Sunday, Sept. 12?
"I heard about it from my doctors
and my parents. When I first got sick,
I was in a coma and on a ventilator
and I couldn't walk because I didn't
have feeling in one leg. My parents
pushed me in a wheelchair [in the
walkathon] that first year. We've partici-
pated every year since."

How does your family help with the
walk?
"My parents — Denise and Arthur —
my sister Molly, 15, and my cousin Joel
Greenblatt, [17, of Huntington Woods]
are on my team. Molly and I go door to
door in our neighborhood collecting
money for donations to the JDRF. So
far, our family has raised $25,000 —
not including this year. At the walks, my
family has done everything from work at
registration to cook hot dogs and make
balloon animals for the younger kids."

What else to do you do for JDRF?

— Shelli Liebman Dorfman, staff writer

"I volunteer in the Southfield office,
doing whatever they need. I've gone to
businesses, asking them to donate items
to auction off at fund-raisers. I also sit
on the Teen Action Committee, which
tries to make the walk kid-friendly. My
family is on the Family Team Commit-
tee, which works as intermediaries
between the JDRF and the family
teams. I also make vinyl decals to sell as
a fund-raiser for JDRF.

For information on the Sunday,
Sept. 12, Walk to Cure Diabetes —
taking place at both the GM Tech
Center in Warren and Gallup Park
in Ann Arbor — call (248) 355-
1133 or access the Web site at:
vvww.jdrf. org To make a donation
to JDRF, send a check to: Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation,
Metro Detroit and Southeast
Michigan Chapter, 24359
Northwestern Hwy., Suite 225,
Southfield, MI 48075.

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