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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful to be honorable to be compassionate to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well Ralph Waldo Emerson Mission Statement Living foundation diabetes is a non profit organization 501C3 that is committed to improving the health outcome of individuals living with diabetes through awareness education teaching and empowerment of the community. Diabetes is a chronic disease and a major public health problem that is becoming the biggest epidemic of the twenty first century. According to center of disease control CDC2012 9.