Celebrate the UN SDGS and Rare Disease Day!
Show your colors and win some swag!
The Sustainability Office invites you to join us in celebrating the UN SDGS and showing your colors for Rare Disease Day on February 28th!
How to Participate?
On Monday 2/28 we're asking you to share your colorful stripes and sustainability themed artwork that helps bring awareness to Rare Diseases and UN SDG 3 Good Health and Well Being. Get creative with your submissions! Some ideas include drawings, paintings, hand made items, photos, poems, prose, etc!
One lucky UMBC community member will be randomly selected to win some UMBC Sustainability Swag!
To enter to win all you have to do is post to Instagram or Twitter a photo of your submission these 3 hashtags:
#Rarediseaseday
#UNSDGS
#UMBCRare
The winner will be announced on our social media on March 1!
What is Rare Disease Day
Rare Disease Day is the globally-coordinated movement on rare diseases, working towards equity in social opportunity, healthcare, and access to diagnosis and therapies for people living with a rare disease.
Since its creation in 2008, Rare Disease Day has played a critical part in building an international rare disease community that is multi-disease, global, and diverse– but united in purpose. Rare Disease Day is observed every year on 28 February (or 29 in leap years)—the rarest day of the year. Rare Disease Day provides an energy and focal point that enables rare diseases advocacy work to progress on the local, national and international levels.
Though Rare Disease Day is patient-led, everyone, including individuals, families, caregivers, healthcare professionals, researchers, clinicians, policy makers, industry representatives and the general public, can participate in raising awareness and taking action today for this vulnerable population who require immediate and urgent attention.
By Sharing your colors via social media, events, illuminating buildings, monuments and homes, by sharing experiences online and with friends, by calling on policy makers and shining the light on people living with a rare disease, collectively we aim to change and improve lives of the 300 million people worldwide.
The zebra has become the official symbol of rare diseases in the United States. In honor of our shared mascot we wear striped clothing and accessories to show our support of those lives impacted by a rare disease. Wearing stripes can help start conversations that help others learn the facts about the prevalence and challenges of rare diseases. Additionally, many also bring awareness to this day by wearing blue denim genes (aka jeans) to show support.
What are the UN SDGs
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
Posted: February 21, 2022, 10:59 AM
