Global Handwashing Day

Global Handwashing Day

15 October 2020 –

Handwashing with soap is the most effective and inexpensive way to prevent diarrhoeal and acute respiratory infections, which take the lives of millions of children in developing countries every year. Together, they are responsible for the majority of all child deaths. Yet, despite its lifesaving potential, handwashing with soap is seldom practised and difficult to promote. The challenge is to transform handwashing with soap from an abstract good idea into an automatic behaviour performed in homes, schools, and communities worldwide. Turning handwashing with soap before eating and after using the toilet into an ingrained habit could save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention, cutting deaths from diarrhoea by almost half and deaths from acute respiratory infections by one-quarter. A vast change in handwashing behaviour is critical to meeting the Millennium Development Goal of reducing deaths among children under the age of five by two-thirds by 2019.

Global Handwashing Day is observed every year on 15th October every year in an effort to raise awareness of handwashing with soap as a key approach to disease prevention. As a campaign, it aims to motivate and mobilize millions around the world to wash their hands with soap.

International Girl Child Day

International Girl Child Day1

11 October 2020 –

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart

In ancient times, women were highly respected. But with time, their situation changed drastically. Thinking of people towards girls changed. Conservative practices like child marriage, sati system, dowry system, female foeticide, etc. became prevalent. Due to this, girls were being denied from rights like education, nutrition, legal rights and medicine. But now in this modern era, several efforts are being made to provide girls their rights and to make people aware of it. The Indian government is also working in this direction and is implementing various schemes.

Since 2012, International Day of the Girl Child is being celebrated every year. Its main objective is to empower women and help them to get their rights so that they can face the challenges all over the world and meet their needs. At the same time, spreading awareness about eliminating gender abnormalities against girls around the world.

The Government of India has also implemented several schemes to empower girls, under which “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao” is one of them. Apart from this, the central and state governments are also taking initiatives and implementing various schemes. In India too, National Girl Child Day is celebrated every year on 24 January.

World Mental Health Day

World Mental Health Day

10 October 2020 –

World Mental Health Day is on October 10 and as our understanding of mental health grows, we grow along with it. Mental health has come a long way since the early nineties when the World Federation of Mental Health (WFMH) officially established the day. Our self-awareness and sensitivity towards it have changed things for the better. Our language surrounding mental health has improved as words like “crazy” and “lunatic” are used less flippantly and we come to better understand that they can be unintentionally hurtful and stigmatizing. While we’ve learned a lot, there’s still so much more we can do to evolve as a society.

Indian Air Force Day

Indian AirForce Day

08 October 2020 –

Indian Air Force is also known as “Bhartiya Vayu Sena” and is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. This day is celebrated for the inception of Air Force in India to aid the Army that was fighting on the land. Do you know it is attended by the Chiefs of all the three defence services namely Indian Air Force, Army and Navy.

The celebration of this day was officially started on 8th October in the year 1932 in order to increase the awareness of Indian air force in any organisation of the national security both officially and publicly. The day is celebrated in Air Force bases all across the nation with air shows and parades conducted by air force cadets, as the Indian Air Force (IAF) has its prime responsibility of securing the Indian airspace as well as to carry out the aerial warfare during any clash.

It is known that the Indian Air Force has been a fundamental and crucial part of the defence system of the nation along with the Indian Navy and Army. The IAF’s first flight was formed on 1st April 1933. The first time IAF came into brave action was during the Waziristan war against the tribal. Later IAF got expanded tremendously during the Second World War. IAF has proved to be a great defence force during the war especially in Burma. Its anonymous contribution and achievement made the IAF win the prefix of Royal in 1945 and hence came to be known as the Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF).

As of 1 July 2017, the Indian Air Force has a sanctioned strength of 12,550 officers (12,404 serving with 146 under strength), and 142,529 airmen (127,172 serving with 15,357 under strength). Not only it has the responsibility to safeguard the Indian Territory from all risks, but also provide support during natural calamities to the affected areas. The IAF has been involved in numerous wars: World War II, Sino-Indian War, Operation Cactus, Operation Vijay, Kargil War, Indo-Pakistan War, Congo Crisis, Operation Poomalai, Operation Pawan, and few others.

8 October (Second Thursday of October): World Sight Day

World Sight Day

08 October 2020 –

This year, World Sight Day is to be held on Thursday 8th October 2020. This annual event, which is always held on the second Thursday of October, is aiming to draw attention to a range of issues surrounding blindness and visual impairment. It is seen as one of the most important communication and advocacy events on the eye health calendar.

Initially started by the Lions Club International Foundation as part of the Sight First campaign in the year 2000, World Sight Day is now coordinated by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) under the VISION 2020 global initiative which aims to promote a world in which nobody is needlessly visually impaired.

The main aims of World Sight Day include:
• To Raise public awareness of issues surrounding blindness and visual impairment.
To influence Governments, and in particular Health Ministers to participate in and donate funds to blindness prevention programmes.
To educate about blindness prevention.
To generate support for Vision 2020 programme and activities.

World Animal Welfare Day

World Animal Welfare Day

05 October 2020 –

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. – Haile Selassie

World Animal Day or unofficially world animal lover day is a cause for celebration for anyone who loves animals-irrespective of their national, geographical or religious beliefs. The day was formulated at a convention of ecologists in Florence as a method of highlighting the plight of endangered species. October 4 was thus chosen as World Animal Day and quite appropriately so as it is the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. But this in no way makes it a religious festival, though of course it does speak a religion, the religion of love towards animals.

The day is celebrated variously in different countries of the world. The ease of media and telecommunication has made the spread of the event emphatically faster and with the hope of greater results and changes in world attitude in cruelty towards animals. A great thrust has been the launch of the official website of World Animal Day on the 4th October 2003. The website has been a major conduit in successfully disseminating the philosophy of the event to a greater audience worldwide. Besides the website also lists a conglomerate of countries and events which can be participated in. one important motive of the event is to bring together and harmonize animal welfare movements worldwide and provide a platform to the concerned to take up steps as an individual, as a group or as a community. The main concern as enunciated by the animal welfare day organization is to celebrate and be thankful to the animal life in all its multifarious forms, to value and preserve humankind’s relationship with the animal kingdom and most importantly to acknowledge the various indispensable life-sustaining roles animals play in our lives-of being our pets, our friends and companions. To be conscious and grateful of the precious completeness which animals enrich our life with, to make it a wholesome unit.

The World Animal Day thus works in cooperation with many concerned organization worldwide and is also greatly endorsed and supported by national and international celebrities. Press coverage and media events are also hiking the appeal and sensibility of the event and making a considerably relevant issue to direct attention on in the contemporary times. The World Animal Day website also encourages autonomous initiatives to install the event. For instance interested individuals can log onto the website and get ideas and organizational know-how form expert administrators on the website. Once successfully planned, one can also advertise and publicize the event for free on the web-site, thus gathering a multitude of support for the cause.
To accelerate the process of invoking global concern towards the plight of animals and to unite animal lovers worldwide the Word Animal Day also attempts to appoint a World Animal Day Ambassador in all participating countries of the world. These ambassadors will be instrumental in uniting animal welfare movement the world round, embracing all animals and the unique concerns of each and everyone in every country. This will be a major step forward in coalescing divergent concerns of animal welfare into a single homogenous unit which will greatly improve the work of the organization to galactic heights.

Lal Bahadur Shastri Jayanti

Gandhi Jayanti

02 October 2020 –

“We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.” – Lal Bahadur Shastri Jayanti

Lal Bahadur Shastri born on 2 October 1904 in Mughalsarai, Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. His mother’s name was ‘Ramdulari’ while his father’s name was Sharada Prasad Srivastava, who was a School teacher. His father died of plague when he was only one year six months old.

Shastri Ji got a sense of patriotism from one teacher named ‘Nishkameshwar Prasad Mishra’. He was a very patriotic person and had much influence on Shastri Ji. Shastri Ji had gone to jail when he was only in the 10th standard but was soon released. He completed his degree in Philosophy from Kashi Vidyapith and got the title of ‘Shastri’ which later became his identity.

Shastri Ji joined Indian National Congress and went to jail for two and a half years for participating in various freedom struggles and movements. He always stayed in contact with Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the two prominent members of Congress.

After the independence of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri Ji became the Minister of Police and Transport in his home state Uttar Pradesh. He brought many revolutionary changes in management like allowing women to work as a conductor, use of water jets to disperse crowd instead of Lathi charge, etc.

Shastri Ji worked as Prime Minister of India from 9 June 1964 to 11 January 1966. He died at Tashkent when he was there for signing the peace treaty to stop India Pakistan war in 1966. The cause of his death is still a mystery for the whole world.

Gandhi Jayanti

Gandhi Jayanti

02 October 2020 –

“Be the change that you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi

In India, the Gandhi Jayanti is a festival for every Indian and comes every year with a grand celebration. Gandhi Jayanti is the birth date of Mahatma Gandhi. He was a prominent political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement.

Mahatma Gandhi loved his mother Putlibai the most that had influenced him a lot. Mahatma Gandhi went to England in 1888 to study the Law from University of London and became a Barrister. He wrote his autobiography “My Experiment with Truth”.

Visiting South Africa was a major event in his life. Mahatma Gandhi went to South Africa and accepted the practice of advocacy on a one-year agreement. In South Africa, He faced discrimination against Indians, which made him to return India and fight against the British Government.

We can never forget the struggle of Mahatma Gandhi for the freedom of India. Due to his movements like Champaran Satyagraha, Non-Cooperative Movement, Salt Movement and Bharat Chhodo Movement. The day of Gandhi Jayanti is dedicated as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi “Father of the Nation”.

National Blood Donation Day

National Blood Donation Day

01 October 2020 –

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

Celebrating National Voluntary Blood Donation Day was observed On October 1, National Voluntary Blood Donation Day is regularly celebrated in India to share the need and importance of blood in a person’s life.

It was first celebrated on October 1, 1975, by the Indian Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunology. Indian Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunology was recognized on 22nd October, 1971 under the leadership of Mrs.K. Swarup krishen and Dr. J.G.Jolly.

The following are the basic objectives of the opening day to educate the overall public everywhere around the country about the importance of the purpose of a blood donation; one is to effectively fulfill the mission of voluntary blood donation to meet the need of the homeless.
Patients and the last is to store blood in blood donation centers for any urgent and real need. It is repeatedly stated in the relevant forums that the secured blood donor is a volunteer of his own free will and does not expect any monetary benefit.

Voluntary blood donors are the protectors of humanity. The importance of observing the day, such as National Voluntary Blood Donation Day, is to mobilize, encourage and encourage volunteers to donate blood and be healthy.

This is a motivation for those who do not donate but are in good health to start donating blood. Donate for charity or donate only to relatives or friends.

It is also celebrated today to say our thanks and strengthen the self-confidence of the volunteers who donate blood so that they can continue to do so regularly.

This message should be communicated to a large number of people so that voluntary donation becomes a big movement.

Transferring or donating blood or parts of it to the needy has become an integral part of humanity in the modern health care system. It doesn’t matter who the bloodline or receiver is.

Always remember this – today’s donor may be the recipient of tomorrow! Therefore, voluntary blood donation with no hope is a crucial part of the lifesaving process.

To highlight the need to commit and donate blood throughout the year. It is very important to maintain adequate supplies and achieve universal and timely access.

To mobilize support at the national, regional, and global levels in governments and development partners to invest, strengthen and sustain national blood programs.

Voluntary unpaid donors are the foundation of a safe and stable blood supply in 100% of the blood supply in 62 countries.

Healthy donors range in age from 18 to 65 years. The isolation of one unit of blood into its various parts benefits many patients.

All donated blood should always be tested for HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and Syphilis before transfusion.

National Voluntary Blood Donation Day October 1st is a significant day was celebrated for save someone’s life, life is precious than others things in the world.

World Heart Day

World Heart Day

29 September 2020 –

A simple promise … for MY HEART, for YOUR HEART, for ALL OUR HEARTS.

Heart Day is part of an international campaign to spread awareness about heart disease and stroke prevention. This is the perfect day to quit smoking, get exercising and start eating healthy – all in the name of keeping your ticker in good working order, and improving the health and well being of people the world over. The World Heart Federation have found that heart disease and strokes are the world’s leading cause of death, killing 17.1 million people every year – that’s more than victims of cancer, HIV and AIDS and malaria. Overeating, lack of exercise, unhealthy diets and high blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels are all factors which can trigger heart disease and threaten our own lives, and those of loved ones. Heart Day was set up to drive home the message that heart problems can be prevented.

The aim is to improve health globally by encouraging people to make lifestyle changes and promoting education internationally about ways to be good to your heart.

World Heart Day is celebrated every year. It was created by the World Heart Federation. The first World Heart Day took place back in 2000. Since then, in 2012, leaders from around the globe committed to the reduction of worldwide mortality from non-communicable diseases by 25 percent by 2025.

As World Heart Day is all about drawing people’s attention to heart diseases and illnesses, as well as the range of health issues that are associated with this, it makes sense to raise awareness and also improve your own understanding. We would recommend taking some time to do a bit of research about heart conditions and risk factors. You can then use your online platforms and your social groups in order to raise awareness.

There are both non-governmental and governmental organizations that take part in this date around the world. They do this through the organization of science fairs, exhibitions, fitness sessions, public talks, walks, and marathons. Some famous buildings, monuments, and landmarks opt to go red on this date so that they can show their support for cardiovascular disease awareness.

There are a lot of different charities and organizations that are doing great work when it comes to raising awareness and finding cures for different heart problems. We are sure that they would appreciate a donation, whether this is a donation of your time, money, or both! After all, anything that you can do can make a difference to someone’s life, so do not underestimate the role that you can play.

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