Image: Mr Harley Franco and Mrs Lela Franco receive the Living & Giving award on behalf of Club Member Harley Marine
The UK Club was one of the corporate sponsors attending the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation 22nd Annual Dream Gala in Seattle this month. Thomas Miller Americas' President Mike Jarrett hosted a Club table at the gala for local Members and friends.
The highlight of their evening was when UK Club Director Harley Franco, his wife Lela and the employees of Harley Marine were honoured with the JDRF Seattle Guild's "Living and Giving" award which recognises "outstanding support" of the foundation's work.
The gala evening raised $3.5 million for the foundation and its work in researching cures and therapies for type 1 diabetes among young people.
Unsurprisingly the Dream Gala is one of the most successful fundraising activities of the JDRF. Since 1989, the JDRF's Seattle Guild has raised over $46 million to support diabetes research.
Since its founding in 1970 by parents of children with type 1 diabetes, JDRF has awarded more than $1.5 billion to diabetes research, and research-related education. The foundation has established local chapters across the United States and affiliates in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, Israel, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
The International Day of the Seafarer is a rare opportunity for the industry to educate, raise awareness and “showcase” the vital work of seafarers - those who keep the World supplied with essential and non-essential goods.
Following a recent UK Club webinar on Biofuels there were many questions raised answered, these have been conflated for the easy use of Members and the wider Shipping Industry.
In this lessons learnt video the crew were instructed to clean the vessel’s cargo holds in preparation for the next cargo, during the procedure a seaman on top of the staging fell down suffering serious injuries.
