Do Blue Day
Do Blue Day happens every year, raising awareness and supporting young New Zealanders with type 1 diabetes. It’s normally on World Diabetes Day (Tuesday 14 November this year) or you can choose any school day in November instead.
Get your school involved!
Copy and paste the email below, or download a letter to print.
Download and share our image on social, and print posters to put up around school.
Do Blue Day social media tile
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Wear Blue Day A4 poster: Tuesday 14 November
Download and print
Wear Blue Day A4 poster: choose your date
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Email: copy and paste
Subject: Live Brave Mana Ora Do Blue Day: Tuesday 14 November 2023
Dear <contact name>
Do Blue and support youth with diabetes!
Would <School name> like to host a Live Brave Mana Ora Do Blue Day this November? Encourage both staff and students to wear and decorate themselves blue, fundraise by collecting gold coin donations (or another fundraising activity of your choice) and support young people living with type 1 diabetes.
Do Blue Day happens every year, raising awareness and supporting young New Zealanders with type 1 diabetes. It’s normally on World Diabetes Day (November 14th) or you can choose any school day in November instead.
There are nearly 293,000 people living with diabetes in New Zealand; more than 4,000 under 19 with type 1. Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune health condition with no cure, requiring constant management and multiple daily injections or an insulin pump. (Type 2 diabetes, once thought to only affect adults, is also on the rise in people under 18.)
The donations collected from Do Blue Day will stay in our area and go directly towards supporting our young people living with type 1 diabetes and their families.
On behalf of Live Brave Mana Ora and all tamariki living with Type 1 diabetes, I hope you’ll considering supporting us!
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Your phone number and email address