Webhealth Awareness Events and Appeals Calendar 2012

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We are proud to provide this Awareness Events and Appeals Calendar, listing health observances, awareness weeks, days or months and fundraising events.

This information in this calendar has been collated from a variety of sources. We have endeavoured in good faith to provide accurate information, however dates are subject to change.

This calendar is a work in progress, and we will add new dates as they come to hand. If your organisation wishes to have a nationwide event included in this calendar please email us on webhealth@webhealth.co.nz.

We recommend you promote local events on our Community Noticeboard, in the region closest to your event.

January 2012

4World Braille Day
29World Leprosy Day

 

 

 

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February 2012

1-28 National Bikewise Month
1-28 FebFast
Go by Bike Day 
4World Cancer Day
13-19 Heart Health Week 
13-19Lifeline National Awareness Week 
14Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day
17 Heart Foundation Annual Appeal 
18-24 IHC Appeal Week 
25-4 Neuromuscular Alliance Awarenss Week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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March 2012

1-31 Epilepsy New Zealand Awareness Month 
1-31 Endometriosis Awareness Month
1-8 Toy Library Awareness Week
Purple Cake Day 
1-31Ride Out of the Blue - Mental Health Foundation
4Children's Day
4-10 NZ Kidney Foundation Appeal Week 
5-11Plunket Birthday Appeal Week
8International Women's Day
8World Kidney Day
12-18 Red Cross Annual Appeal
12-18  Brain Awareness Week
14 Walk to Work Day 
17-25 Muscular Dystrophy Association Bow Tie Campaign 
17Orphans Aid International
20 World Social Work Day 
21  Race Relations Day 
22International Earth Day
22World Water Day
19-25Child Cancer Foundation Beads of Courage
24 World Tuberculosis Day  
24-25Neighbours Day
25-31National Foundation for the Deaf Hearing Week
26-31 Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand's Shave for a Cure 
26 World Epilepsy Purple Day 
30 -
April 1 
Royal NZ Foundation of the Blind/Red Puppy Street Appeal 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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April 2012

30 Mar - 1 RNZFB Red Puppy Appeal
2World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD)
World Health Day
10-16 Homeopathy Awareness Week
11 World Parkinson's Day
16Poppy Week
17 World Haemophilia Day
20 RSA Poppy Day
22-29 Primary Immunodeficiency Week 
23-29 Immunisation Week 
24 World YWCA Day
25 World Malaria Day  
27 Greyhounds as Pets Street Appeal 
27NZ Riding for the Disabled Appeal Day  
29 World Day Of Immunology
29-5 May Privacy Awareness Week 
30-6 May Red Shield Appeal (Salvation Army) 
30-6 May NZ Sign Language Week 
30-6 May Asthma Awareness Week 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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May 2012

29 Apr - 5 Privacy Awareness Week
30 Apr - 6 Red Shield Appeal (Salvation Army) 
30 Apr - 6 NZ Sign Language Week 
30 Apr - 6  Asthma Awareness Week  
1-31Coastguard May Day Appeal
1-7 Rape Awareness Week
4  Asthma Foundation Balloon Day and Asthma NZ  

5

International Midwives Day
World Red Cross Day
10World Lupus Day
12International Nurses Day
12 ME Awareness Day
14-20 Hospice Palliative Care Week  
15 International Day of Families
20 World Autoimmune Arthritis Day 
20-26Allergy Awareness Week
18 Pink Shirt Day
19  World Inflammatory Bowel Disease Day 
21-27 Youth Week
21-27Youthline
25 Westpac Chopper Appeal
27-29World Vision 40 Hour Famine
28 World Hepatitis Day
31World Smokefree Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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June 2012

31 May - 6 Infant Gastric Reflux Awareness Week 
(4 June Infant Gastric Reflux Day)
1-7 Autism New Zealand's Annual Appeal Week
2-8 Brain Injury Awareness Week 
4-10 Coeliac Awareness Week 
4-10 Bowel Cancer Awareness Week 
5-12 Head Injury Society Awareness Week
Ronald McDonald House Street Appeal 
11-17 Parent Centres National Parents Centre Week 
15 St Vincent de Paul Appeal
11-17 Men's Health Week
14 World Blood Donor Day
15 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
20 World Refugee Day
18-24 St John Appeal Week
18-24 Volunteer Awareness Week 
22 Red Nose Day 
24-30 World Continence Week
25-30 SIDS NZ Appeal 
29 Red Socks Day 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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July 2012

1-31 Glaucoma NZ Awareness Month
1-31Alzheimers Cuppa for a Cause Month
1-7 Neurological Foundation Appeal
2-8 CCS Disability Action Week 
Barnardos Founders Day 
16-22 National Collective of Women's Refuge Annual Appeal 
23-29 Maori Language Week 
27 Homes of Compassion
28 World Hepatitis Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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August 2012

1-7 World Breastfeeding Week
Amnesty International Aotearoa  
5-11 @Heart Awareness Week 
6-12 Parent to Parent NZ National Appeal 
International Day of Indigenous People
12 World Youth Day 
13-19Cystic Fibrosis Appeal
6-12 VSA Project Friendship Week
31 Daffodil Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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September 2012

1-30 Cervical Screening Awareness Month
1-30 Oral Health Month 
1-30 Leukemia and Lymphoma Month 
1-30 Blue September for Prostate Awareness
1-30 Starship Foundation Spring Cleaning Month
1-30 NZ Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month
Gamble Free Day
2-8 MS Awareness Week (5th - MS Collection Day)
3-8 Stroke Awareness Week
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Awareness Day
9-16  Conservation Week 
10 World Suicide Prevention Day
12 World Oral Health Day
14-30 Canteen National Bandanna Challenge 
14 Maori Language Day 
15 World Lymphoma Awareness Day
21 Loud Shirt Day  
21 World Alzheimers Day 
24-30 Deaf Awareness Week
24-
1 Oct  
Older Persons Awareness Week  
25-
1 Oct 
Arthritis New Zealand Awareness Week
29 World Heart Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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October 2012

1-31 Breast Cancer Awareness Month
International Day of Older Person
1-8 Habitat for Humanity Awareness Week
Save the Children NZ
8-12 Get Ready Get Thru Week 
8-14 Mental Health Awareness Week 
10 World Mental Health Day
10 World Homeless Day
9-15 Baby Loss Awareness Week
12-13 NZBCF Pink Ribbon Street Appeal
15 International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Day
16 World Food Day
20 World Osteoporosis Day
22 International Stuttering Awareness Day
24 World Polio Day
23-29 RNZFB Blind Week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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November 2012

1-30 Epilepsy NZ Awareness Month 
1-30 5+ A Day Month
1-30 Movember
1-7 Parkinson's Awareness Week
13-19 Sun Smart Week 
13-19 Diabetes New Zealand Awareness and Appeal Week 
14 World Diabetes Day
25 White Ribbon Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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December 2012

 1World Aids Day
 3International Day of Disabled Persons
 3National Jandal Day
 5International Volunteer Day
 10World Human Rights Day
 18World Migrants Day 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This content was last updated April 13, 2012.