Show Young People Living With Cancer You Care, Buy And Wear A Bandanna

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Show Young People Living With Cancer You Care, Wear a Bandanna

Three weeks left to get your bandannas from key outlets, schools or from street sales on National Bandanna Day on 30 October, 2009

Australia, 12 October 2009 CanTeen asks all Australians to buy a bandanna during October to wear on National Bandanna Day (www.bandannaday.com.au) Friday, 30 October. There are six fresh bandanna styles including designs by Industrie Clothing, and two from CanTeen Members.

National Bandanna Day is CanTeen's biggest annual fundraiser and awareness day, with this year's goal to sell 1 million bandannas. Wearing your bandanna is a powerful gesture that shows young people living with cancer that they are supported and they are not alone.

Natalie Gruzlewski, star of Getaway and Farmer Wants a Wife and this year's NBD ambassador for CanTeen, says: "I am glad to support these strong, young individuals living with cancer not only on National Bandanna Day, but all year round."

This year's bandannas include old favourites plus six fresh designs, including one called Faces designed by CanTeen Offspring Member and winner of the National Bandanna Day 2009 Member Design Competition, Yuemei Lim, and Psychedelic Baby by CanTeen Bereaved Offspring Member Jenna Thompson. Other designs are by long-time CanTeen supporters Industrie Clothing.

$3 bandannas will be on sale at Woolworths, Woolworths Petrol, Myer, Supercheap Auto, Fitness First, Newslink, Spotlight, Eckersley's, Industrie Clothing, Kennards Hire, L&H Group, Hilti and schools around Australia during October. On Friday, 30 October, CanTeen's National Bandanna Day, they will be available at street stalls Australia-wide. To support National Bandanna Day, visit www.bandannaday.com.au or call 1800 226 833.

Editor's Note:

National Bandanna Day 2009 Media Image Library:

* NBD 09 Ambassador Natalie Gruzlewski plus Members - http://tinyurl.com/mdodr6
* Members Wearing Bandannas- http://tinyurl.com/kmalr5
* Bandanna Product Shots - http://tinyurl.com/nu8kk4
* CanTeen Member Designed Bandannas - http://tinyurl.com/ydsr77d

Case studies* are available for interviews and photo-ops.

For further information or to arrange an interview please contact:

Veronica Colvin, CanTeen, Phone: 02 8296 6305 Mb: 041 444 7022
Email: [email protected]

Web: www.canteen.org.au


SOURCE: CanTeen