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The CHIC Awareness Calendar gives a list of Events/Health dates, and is available to view, download or order. Some upcoming awareness dates are featured below.
The 2010 edition of the Awareness Calendar is now available.
Walk 2 Work Day - 10 March
Walk2Work Day is part of a Living Streets campaign that aims to encourage people to walk more in their daily lives. It is a free event held before work in a location close to the main walking routes, targeting people who have walked all or part of the way to work.
The Christchurch event will be in Cathedral Square from 7 to 9am, and will include light breakfast treats and spot prizes for people who walked to work, or took the bus and walked to work on the day.
The campaign aims:
- To encourage more people to walk to work and encourage active healthy lifestyles for all New Zealanders.
- To raise the profile of walking as a as an essential mode of transport.
- To decrease road congestion by reducing the numbers of private vehicles on our roads.
- To support the local economy (by way of retail purchases from walkers on their journey to work).
So leave your car at home and try walking to work. It's a fun and easy way to get your daily exercise while doing something practical. No traffic queues, no parking fees, no petrol costs! Walking to work regularly during March is a great way to fit in training for the City to Surf. Hopefully you can keep up the habit- year round!
Is your work/school commute too long to walk all the way? Then try a walk and bus combination.
Come and be part of this nation-wide initiative and Walk 2 Work.
For more information, visit the Walk 2 Work website.
Child Cancer Appeal 8-14 March
The Child Cancer Foundation provides ongoing practical, emotional and financial assistance to children with cancer, and their families, whose lives have been changed forever by this life threatening disease. The goal for this year's appeal is to sell 75,000 bead bracelets, one for each of the 75,000 procedures children with cancer receive each year on their journey.
So help the Child Cancer Foundation reach this goal buy purchasing a $5 supporters' bead bracelet. During Appeal week streets throughout New Zealand will be covered in a sea of aqua blue! Look out for collectors in your area and please give generously.
For more information or to volunteer, visit the Child Cancer Foundation website.
Race Relations Day - 21 March
Each year 21 March is observed around the globe as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Race Relations Day is a time when you or your organisation or community can do something to celebrate, to learn, to discuss, to plan or to promote diversity in your own context and to achieve diversity goals. It's an opportunity to launch new initiatives, motivate staff, or promote existing programmes and projects.
The theme for Race Relations Day 2010 is ‘It’s About Us- Whānau’. Download the 2010 Race Relations Day Poster.
In the days around Race Relations Day community groups, councils, schools, workplaces, marae and places of worship are encouraged to host events and celebrations to acknowledge the value of cultural diversity and the need to support harmonious race relations.
For more information or to find about events happening near you, visit the Human Rights Commission website.
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