🇸🇪 Spotlight on Lupus Sweden!
💜 At our #LupusConvention, Riksföreningen för SLE (Lupus Sweden) shared their inspiring work to raise awareness, spread knowledge and build connections across the lupus community in Sweden.
💬 Formed in 2017 as part of the Swedish Rheumatism Organisation, they now count almost 160 members. Their mission: to spread knowledge about lupus and counteract loneliness.
📘 One of their most beautiful achievements in 2024 has been the release of a children’s book, “My mother can have a butterfly on the nose”, written to help younger children understand what it’s like to live with a parent who has lupus.
🌸 Every May, they celebrate World Lupus Day with a national theme day, a tradition started in 2013! Each year, the event takes place in a different city so that all members across Sweden can feel included and represented.
🦋 Recently, they also launched a new lupus/SLE awareness pin, raising funds for lupus research and making lupus more visible to the public.
👏 Thank you, Lupus Sweden, for your dedication, creativity and compassion. A great example of how patient organisations bring people together and make lupus visible!
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