12/19/2022–12/25/2022
Awareness Events 2022 CW 51
Including Blue Christmas, Homeless Persons’ Remembrance Day, and others.
This weekly post provides information about individual awareness days as well as ongoing awareness weeks.
Each of these awareness events provides a possible topic for a story in Your Voice Matters. Please take the list as an inspiration, not a limitation.
👉 We writers have the opportunity to reach people. And this is the very vision of Your Voice Matters publication.
12/14/2022–01/05/2023 🐤 Christmas Bird Count Week (US)
This week-long celebration is an international census of birds undertaken by birdwatchers in the Western Hemisphere. […]
12/21/2022
🙏 Blue Christmas (US)
“It is about comforting fellow Christians who are grieving and struggling to find joy and hope during the season.”
🌞 Look On The Bright Side Day (US)
“It’s quite normal to feel a little down on this day since it falls around the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, […] being optimistic is scientifically good for our bodies and minds. […]”
🙏 Homeless Persons’ Remembrance Day (US)
“Many homeless people die anonymously in the streets. By recalling who they are, this day gives them the respect they didn’t earn upon their death.”
12/23/2022
🦸 HumanLight (Int.)
“Human values of compassion, reason, hope, and humanity are celebrated and expressed on this holiday.”
12/25/2022
🏃 GOAL Mile (IE)
“GOAL was founded in 1977 when founder John O’Shea decided to work towards mitigating poverty and helping out with the first responses to humanitarian crises.”
