International FAS Day
Dateline: 09/09/99International FAS Day, promoted by Bonnie Buxton, Thursday, September 9, '99 will begin at 9:09 a.m. in New Zealand, just west of the international dateline, and move west to Australia, across Asia and Russia, into Africa and Western Europe, across the Caribbean and Newfoundland, finally wending its way across Canada’s mainland and the United States.
The goal is that in each time zone, at 9:09, a.m., this last September in the old Millennium, people stop for a Minute of Reflection about the invisible plague called Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Organizers of the event would like school children, parents at home, people at work, and radio and TV stations to take one minute to remember that there during the nine months of pregnancy, or while breastfeeding or planning to conceive, a woman should not consume alcohol.
In this minute, they want the world to remember that approximately 60 million people throughout the are living with brains that were damaged by alcohol, before they were born.
In this minute, they resolve to do everything they can, to reduce the number of infants born with this terrible disorder -- and to help those who are currently struggling with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Fetal Alcohol Effects.
International FAS Day and its Minute of Reflection presents numerous opportunities for other events at around this time: generating international media, educating the public, lobbying governments, and fund-raising from the general public and the corporate world. "If all of us who care about FAS work together for just one day, we can truly change the world," the web site says.
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