Get ready! February 1-7th is The National Eating Disorder Awareness Week (EDAW). The Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness (PEDAW) campaign has some ways you can take part.
PEDAW Wristband Challenge
*Open to BC Residents
Order a free Love our Bodies, Love Ourselves wristband here & post photos to our Twitter & Facebook accounts, February 1-7th. Be creative!
#Purple4PEDAW
Twitter & on our Facebook event page
Structures turning #Purple4PEDAW
-Vancouver:
BC Place, The dome at Science World at TELUS World of Science, the Olympic Cauldron at the Vancouver Convention Centre
-Coquitlam:
Fountain at Lafarge Lake, Town Centre Park at 1205 Pinetree Way
-Nanaimo:
Bastion (95 Front Street)
-Penticton
SOEC (South Okanagan Events Centre) 853 Eckhardt Avenue West (on now until Feb. 7th)
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One of the ideas in our PEDAW in a Box kit |
Host your own community event!
We have a number of ideas for you to try out in your own community to help bring awareness. Want to book a display window in your community library? How about organizing a flashmob? Download our PEDAW in a Box kit.
Share with us what activities you have planned through our online events calendar.