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Help Raise Awareness
On this page, you will find various resources that we encourage you to use to help raise awareness of retinoblastoma in your local community.
Be a part of our life-saving campaign by printing one of our posters today and placing it in a public place to educate parents about the most common early sign of childhood eye cancer.

Host a Daisy Bake sale to support our vital work around the world, while also raising awareness ofr retinoblastoma in your local community.

    
The Need

    
Raising Awareness

         Awareness is Vital

         
Taking Action

         
Awareness Week

    
Global Rb Strategy

    
Rati's Challenge
     Rb care in Africa

   
Retinoblastoma Book

   World Rb Citizen Award

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You can also download the event plannig guide, media toolkit, school pack, games and other resources for use during World Retinoblastoma Awareness Week and throughout the year.

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Media Toolkit
School Pack
Just For Fun
Put up a poster
Host a Daisy Bake
Awareness Event Planning
Awareness Poster

Daisy’s Fund has produced an English language awarenwss poster, and a simplified awareness poster which has been translated into different languaged.  Both posters are targeted at parents and carers.  We also include several foreign language posters, produced by other organisations.

Please print out one of these posters and place it in a prominent place to educate parents of young children about retinoblastoma.
Photographing Retinoblastoma (English only).
What's The Problem? Retinoblastoma!
Amharic
Russian
Showing the Swahili language awareness poster during a roadside meeting in Nakuru, Kenya.
Bangla
Setswana
English
Slovene
English (Africa)
Spanish
French
Swahili
French (Africa)
Tagalog
German
Thai
Italian
Ukranian
Giant poster (1mx1m - see left)
English Swahili
Awareness poster from L V Prasad Eye Institute, India.
Hindi Telugu Urdu
Share your foreign language poster with us.

If you have your own foreign language awareness poster, and you would be happy for us to add it to our collection, please email it to: info@daisyseyecancerfund.org (please include a translation in English). 
Host a Daisy Bake Host A Daisy Bake.

Hold a fundraising Daisy Bake to support our vital work around the world, and create an awareness display next to your stall for your visitors to look at. 
Alternatively, hand out our awareness posters or  leaflets with each sale of your delicious cookies.
Visit the Daisy Bake Page for more information.
Awareness Event Planning.

World Retinoblastoma Awareness Week is a great opportunity to help raise awareness of retinoblastoma in your community.  Whether you are thinking of a simple talk at your local mums-and-toddlers group or a more formal event, the following two resources should help you develop an effective, impacting event.
Suggested events for World Retinoblastoma Awareness Week.
A beginner's guide to event planning.
Media Toolkit

If you are organising an event or poster campaign, or you plan to share your own retinoblastoma story with the local community, please use our Media Toolkit to help you communicate effectively with the media.

The toolkit contains:

A Media Relations guide
A beginner’s guide to News Release writing
A guide to effective media conversations and interviews.
Community Calendar Listings info.
A sample News Release
A template News Release
A guide to photocalls, and a template Photocall Advisory.

This Toolkit is a PDF package, containing more than one file.  This may take a minute to download. 
DECF Media Toolkit
Click on the images below to download high resolution originals as examples of leukocoria to share with the media.
Leukocoria
Leukocoria
Providing factsheets along with a news release can be immensely helpful in ensuring correct reporting of the facts.  The following resources can be given to reporters, or used in your own activities.
Childhood Cancer - Factsheet
Retinoblastoma - Factsheet
Daisy's Eye Cancer Fund - Factsheet
Daisy's Eye Cancer Fund - Leaflet
Photographing Retinoblastoma - leaflet
World Retinoblastoma Awareness Week - leaflet
Global Retinoblastoma Strategy - leaflet
An Introduction to Daisy's Eye Cancer Fund - booklet
An Introduction to Retinoblastoma - booklet
School Pack

We have created an educational pack which teaches about poverty and human rights through case studies of children affected by retinoblastoma in different regions of the world.  This pack is created in line with the UK curriculum for Key Stage 2 and 3 geography and PSHE.  However, its contents can easily be applied to courses of study for children in different countries,   Please click on the link below to find out more about The Global View.
The Global View: Poverty and Human Rights.
Just For Fun

Below are several retinoblastoma-themed activities which can be included in newspapers, workplace/school newsletters, or handed out at events.  This section will be added to in the coming weeks, so please check back for more.
Hidden Words All In A Scramble
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