Brady Clarke is taking a big plunge into fund-raising for diabetes research.
Mr Clarke, who works at Lonely Planet in Footscray, will this Saturday jump out of a plane to raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the world’s largest charitable supporter of type 1 diabetes research.
He is tackling the 2014 Jump to Cure Diabetes, a tandem skydive, to both challenge himself and raise funds for important medical research. “I’ve never sky-dived before and I’m slightly terrified of the idea,” he said.
Mr Clarke was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in his mid-teens. Now 25, he said the discovery irrevocably changed his life.
“I had hoped to become a pilot as a kid, but you can’t be a commercial pilot when you’re a diabetic.”
Mr Clarke has adjusted to life with diabetes but wants to help find a cure to save others from the same condition.
