The Wawa Foundation

Featured Charity Partner:

Breakthrough T1D is a 2024 National Partner of Wawa and The Wawa Foundation.

• Beginning July 31 to August 20, Wawa stores will ask customers to participate in the Breakthrough T1D Scan Campaign by donating $1, $3 or $5 to support Breakthrough T1D as it works to create a world without T1D.
• Nearly 9 million people across the world live with Type 1 Diabetes, 1.4 million in the US. In the U.S. 1 in 30 families are impacted-your support helps change the lives of everyone living with this condition – from diagnosis to cures research.
• At Breakthrough T1D our purpose is to drive toward curing type 1 diabetes and help make everyday life better for the people who face it. Those people are the 1 in 30 families in our community that are impacted by this condition that come into our store every day!
• Breakthrough T1D wants everyone to understand that type one diabetes can be diagnosed in anyone at any age –impacting children and adults who live with the condition their whole lives. Today 50% of new diagnoses are in adults, and 50% are in children. We want you to communicate that Breakthrough T1D is an organization for ALL ages and ALL stages of the disease until together we can turn type one into type none.
• Breakthrough T1D is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes research. Breakthrough T1D’s ultimate goal is to find a cure for T1D, but along the way fund
therapies that will lessen the burden of living with the disease. Breakthrough T1D collaborates with a wide spectrum of partners and is the only organization with the scientific resources to influence policy and deliver innovative therapies to people living with type 1 diabetes to help them thrive.
• Breakthrough T1D thanks you for your passion and partnership to change the lives of the incredibly resilient T1D community. Their determination to thrive while living with this disease inspires us and strengthens our resolve to create a world without T1D.