LOW COST IDEAS FOR CELEBRATING AND PROMOTING THE WHITE RIBBON CAMPAIGN
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Start with your own organisation or workplace:
Hold a lunch time panel discussion
Put posters up in staff rooms and bathrooms these are available from your local Police station in Nov or order them online
Organise a morning tea or bake off or organise a collection for White Ribbon
Write something about preventing violence against women for your organisation’s newsletter or intranet (borrow content from White Ribbon)
Put ribbons on every desk and talk about White Ribbon in the staff room
Have a competition amongst groups within your organisation to come up with the best way of highlighting White Ribbon
If you are part of a family violence network – talk to all the members to encourage them all to do something within their own organisation for White Ribbon
Have a BBQ at the local shops and give out ribbons (ask local supermarkets or butchers to donate sausages)
Ask local businesses to put up posters and wear ribbons
Challenge local shops to mark White Ribbon Day by having a “white out” – an all white window display encompassing ribbons
Drop ribbons and posters at your GP clinic
Organise to give a talk at the local rugby/cricket/football/karate club about what men can do to stop violence against women
Talk to church leaders about including violence prevention messages in their sermons and public talks during WRD (content available from White Ribbon)
Hand out ribbons at the mall, supermarket, train and bus stations wherever people are
Make contact with actors (amateur or professional) and see if they are interested in performing small pieces on family violence in public places on Nov 25
Include the White Ribbon Facebook page/logo in your email signature download here
Ask your radio station/ local paper to do a piece on violence against women and White Ribbon Day
Write an article or letter to the editor with a local angle, eg local statistics on violence against women; local activities; stories from local women who have survived violence
Send ribbons and a little bit of information to your friends, and ask them to be champions in their workplaces, churches and community groups (especially those working outside social and health services)
Ring up talk-back radio and start a discussion about how men can help stop violence against women
Get as many people as possible to be part of a human white ribbon – get the local paper along
Ask the library, sports centre, supermarket, or local council if you can put up a White Ribbon display
At universities, polytechs and schools:
Write an article for the student paper
Have an event in the quad or common space
Put posters and safety information in bathrooms
Ask lecturers to include a focus on violence against women or WRD
Talk to Rotary and other service clubs before November and see how they could get involved
Drop ribbons to your vet clinic – vets often see signs of family violence
Organise a peaceful demonstration or memorial for women who have been killed
