Kidney Health Month - March 2019
Kidney Health Month is March and we want to take the opportunity to raise awareness of Kidney Health. We want to see people getting kidney health checks, so kidney issues can be detected early. Early detection will achieve better outcomes for kidney patients.
World Kidney day and Kidney health month. It is an opportunity to:
- Get a simple kidney fitness check!
- Participate in a challenge event to raise awareness of kidney health
- Use your personal experience to raise awareness
- Raise public awareness of kidney health
- Spread the word about prevention
- Encourage early detection and prevention.
This is an opportunity support for KHNZ to provide free kidney health checks, provide and 0800 helpline, support kidney patients and their families, and encourage and support research into kidney health.
Wrold kidney month includes World Kidney Day! Click here to read more about World Kidney Day.
Want some ideas on fundraising or raising awareness?
Workplace Ideas:
- Wear Red for Kidney Day - Get your workmates together and wear red at work. Get everyone to make a donation. Add in some fun activities like a sausage sizzle, raffle or kidney challenge.
- Water week challenge - challenge the office to switch their usual drinks to water for a week. Get participants to donate they money they would have spent on their coffee, energy drink, or fizzy drink to Kidney Health New Zealand. Have a fine jar to collect donations. Fines could include - cheating, excessive caffeine withdrawal - make up your own rules.
- Kind to your Kidneys Challenge - Use March to get back to fitness. Get participants to sign up for the Fitness month. Get them to reduce salt and sugar intake, increase exercise, and drink more water,
- Coin War - Get a large clear jar or bottle and put a slot into it. Put departments against each other to donate. However, this one has a twist. For each 10c or 20c coin you subtract from the total. That means teams can sabotage each other by placing 10c & 20c coins in each others jars. Have a prize for the winning team.
School fundraising Ideas
- Wear Red for your Kidneys Multi Day - Ask for a donation for your mufti-day and support a kidney patient.
- Water week for kidney health. Ban fizzy drinks, juice and other sugary drinks for a week at your school and get students to drink water. Get students to donate the money they may have spend on those drinks to Kidney Health New Zealand.
- Run a healthy wrap stall or hamburger stall. This is an alternate to the traditional sausage sizzle. Prepare or purchase a premade salad or coleslaw. Get some wrapts. Add in salsa, sauce, hummus. Include some cooked chicken if you can do so safely.
