BaliFokus Foundation (NGO) 

City/Area:
Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Denpasar

Country:
Indonesia

Title of event:
Lead-Free Paint Children's Environment

Brief description of event:
We will conduct awareness campaign in several kindergarten, childcare facilities, children health care facilities and schools

Target audience for event:
Children, teachers, parents, schools managers and health care facilities managers

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
30/10/2016

National Center for Disease Control & Public Health of Georgia (Government agency) 

City/Area:
Tbilisi

Country:
Georgia

Title of event:
“Say no to Lead Paint”

Brief description of event:
The following activities will be conducted
1. to organize raise the awareness of government authorities and regulators, the private sector, manufacturers, consumers, workers, trade unions and health-care providers about the toxicity of lead in paints and the availability of technically superior and safer alternatives;
2. Engaging the general public through social media
3. National conferences and meetings to engage key decision-makers
4. Translate of the campaign materials into Georgian.

Target audience for event:
Engaging the general public through social media
The primary goal of the campaign is to prevent children’s exposure to paints containing lead and to minimize occupational exposures to lead paint to achieve the phase-out of the manufacture and sale of paints containing lead and to eventually eliminate the risks that such paints pose.

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Greenwomen, the Analytical Environmental Agency (NGO)

City/Area:
Almaty

Country:
Kazakhstan

Title of event:
Increase citizens’ awareness on lead paint

Brief description of event:
- Translate and disseminate information provided by GAELP, upload other relevant materials on our Facebook page and distribute through e-lists.

- Prepare a press release to the media.

We also expecting the results of the research which IPEN conducted to determine the levels of lead in paint sold in some countries including Kazakhstan. (Data was obtained this summer). If we will receive the results before the Week starts, we will distribute during the Week a report with data on levels of lead containing in paint sold in Kazakhstan.

Target audience for event:
General public

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Ecological Society "Ruzgar" (NGO)

City/Area:
Baku

Country:
Azerbaijan

Title of event:
Press Conference on Contamination of houshold paints by lead

Brief description of event:
The Press-Conference Announcement will be published in the NGO Network "Ecoforum" on first week of October/ The review on lead contamination of household paints will be prepared by expert on Environment and health effect of chemicals. The representatives of newspapers, Radio, internet sites will be invited to the Press-Conference. Preliminary press-release of event will be disseminated among the staekholders. The results of Press-Conference materials will be published in newspaper, Internet sites, disseminated by radio

Target audience for event:
Mass-media, NGO, municipality, pedagogical collektive, community leaders. Women-Children-Health Organisations.Environmentalist

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

LEADERS Nepal (NGO)

City/Area:
Biratnagar, Eastern Part of Nepal

Country:
Nepal

Title of event:
Awareness Program on Lead Poisoing

Brief description of event:
This event will raise awareness in workers and their family members on measures to prevent lead poisoning from contaminated work clothes of such workers and lead acid batteries for power backup in their rooms.

Target audience for event:
Occupational workers and their children

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

BC Centre for Disease Control (Government Agency)

City/Area:
BC- Vancouver

Country:
Canada

Title of event:
Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

Brief description of event:
• Adding educational materials on our website
• Having a corner table in the entrance door of BCCDC
• Providing some emails
• Distributing flyers, posters and information

Target audience for event:
Health Professionals and Public

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Khazer Ecological and Cultural NGO (NGO)

City/Area:
Yerevan, Gyumri

Country:
Armenia

Title of event:
Protect our kids from lead exposure

Brief description of event:

a) An important task is to promote the suspension of the production of enamel paints containing lead and to minimize the risk of exposure of these paints on health. This would be achieved via the dissemination of information among doctors, especially pediatricians, paint manufacturers, retailers and other stakeholders.

b) The key objective of the project is to form a productive environment for motivated participation of civil society in decision-making on issues of environmental protection, health, emphasizing the rights of civil society.

Target audience for event:
the target audience includes (but is not limited to) civil society, Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Health, business sector which produces or imports those paints, as well as the consumers’ community, media, local authorities, NGOs and teachers.

Start date:
22/10/2016

End date:
27/10/2016

Center for Public Health and Environmental Development (CEPHED) (NGO)

City/Area:
Kathamndu, Lalitpur and Bhaktpur

Country:
Nepal

Title of event:
Eliminating Leaded Paint through Effective Implementation of Standard in Nepal

Brief description of event:
1. Collection, Customization, preparation, production and widely dissemination of IEC( posters, fliers and campaign Icon, Radio and TV PSA etc.) materials on lead and its health implications;
2. Organize a Press Meet to Kick Off the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action (ILPPWA)
3. Organize Stakeholder Seminar on Effective Implementation of Lead Paint Standard;
4. Organize Awareness and Interaction program for Painters, CUPPEC and Paints dealers;
5. Organize School Orientation Programs on LEAD PAINT ELIMINATION for LEAD SAFE KIDS.
6. Organize Meeting with the celebrities who are acting in Paint Advertisement and provide misleading message to the public.
7. News Article publications to maximize the outreaches and inform about the present status of lead in paint and compliance status of our mandatory standard.

Target audience for event:
General Public ,School Children , Parents, Teachers , School administration, Policy makers. government officials, monitoring agencies, custom officers, health workers, painters, paint dealers, paint manufacturers, construction companies, Urban developer and planners etc.

Start date:
15/10/2016

End date:
15/11/2016

University of Zambia, School of Medicine  (Academic Institution)

City/Area:
Lusaka

Country:
Zambia

Title of event:
Zambia to enact legally binding controls on lead paint by 2020: Lead in paint is harmful to human health, take necessary safety measures to protect yourself and others

Brief description of event:
Television and radio launch, Match pass and dances at strategic places in city

Target audience for event:
Paint manufacturing companies, retailer shops dealing in paints and paint products, Government departments, and the general consumers

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Lead Safe Virginia Program, Virginia Department of Health (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Commonwealth of Virginia

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
2016 National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

Brief description of event:
The Lead Safe Virginia Program, at the Virginia Department of Health has various activities planned throughout the state to promote primary prevention of lead poisoning. There are also magazine ads promoting the use of lead safe work practices. Many of the local health departments have activities planned, and many will be using “Dusty the Dog” exhibit that is a hands-on display. The program website will have information posted about lead poisoning prevention.

Target audience for event:
Homeowners, contractors, painters, remodelers, and families of children living in identified high-risk areas of Virginia.

Start date:
01/10/2016

End date:
31/10/2016

Centre de recherche et d'Education pour le Développement (CREPD) (NGO)

City/Area:
Yaoundé

Country:
Cameroon

Title of event:
“ACT NOW TO PHASE OUT THE DEADLY LEAD PAINT”

Brief description of event:
The following activities will be conducted
1. Conceive, print and display one giant poster with a key message focused the annual cost of children exposure to lead in the capital city.
2. Handouts on lead paint issues to key stakeholders and mass media
3. Radio and TV broadcasts on lead paint issues of concern in the nation context

Target audience for event:
- Decision makers including relevant government ministries, politicians, industry CEOs, investors
- Health professionals
- Mass media
- Development Agencies
- General Public

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

World Inspections, Ltd  

Type of organization
Training Provider

City/Area:
San Diego

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
RRP Initial Class

Brief description of event:
Renovation, Repair and Painting class

Target audience for event:
California

Start date:
20/10/2016

End date:
20/10/2016

National Institute of Public Health (Slovenia), Regional Unit Ravne na Koroškem (Health care institution)

City/Area:
The Upper Meža Valley (Mežica, Črna na Koroškem)

Country:
Slovenia

Title of event:
Workshops "Let's play health"

Brief description of event:
The Upper Meža Valley (Slovenia) has a long lasting lead mining tradition and environment is polluted with lead. Since health of inhabitants is at risk, there is remediation/ health protection programme being carried out since 2007. Like every year, during the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, we will carry out workshops in kindergartens promoting hygiene, healthy food and other health protective activities (How to reduce exposure to contaminated dust, soil, paint...) regarding exposure to heavy metals.

Target audience for event:
Children in kindergartens and their parents, preschool teacher, kindergarten cooks.

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

Les Amis de la Terre-Togo (NGO)

City/Area:
Lomé

Country:
Togo

Title of event:
Sensibilisation du public, en général, et des décideurs, en particulier, sur les dangers liés à l’utilisation de la peinture au plomb et les coûts économiques associés

Brief description of event:
We will organize a press conference. Media will be invited to relay to the population, the dangers to health and economic costs that the use of lead paint exposes man, and the need to reverse the trend.
Participants will discuss challenges related to the commercialization of lead paint. Specifically, we will highlight the salient points of the book "Remove the lead paint: protecting the health of children."
At the end, media could talk about the subject, and raise awareness for the elimination of lead in paint. This event will promote high visibility, reach and impact.

Target audience for event:
The target groups are:

- Public and private, print, broadcast, online media;
- Technical staff of ministries of environment, trade, health and justice;
- Researchers (universities);
- Economic operators in the paint;
- Parliamentarians;
- Organizations of civil society.

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Centre for Environment Justice and Development( CEJAD) (NGO)

City/Area:
NAIROBI

Country:
Kenya

Title of event:
An Engagement forum to raise awareness and address health effects associated with lead exposure amongst Children in Kenya.

Brief description of event:
this event will involve holding a forum in a local primary school to raise awareness on lead poisoning Prevention. we also look forward to engaging paint manufacturers in third party certification.

Target audience for event:
the event targets primary school children,their teachers and parents.The paint manufacturers are also a target.the event will include the Media too via press release and inviting them to the organized forum at a local primary school.

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County  (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Miami

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, 23-29 October, 2016

Brief description of event:
Every year we organize Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. During that week, we educate parents on lead poisoning and how to prevent, distribute brochures & flyers, offer free blood lead test at different health centers throughout Miami-Dade County.

Target audience for event:
Parents, Family, Health Care providers, Nurses, Doctors, Health Science Students, Childcare Centers, WIC clients.

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

ISE POP CI (NGO)

City/Area:
Abidjan,Yopougon Camp militaire

Country:
Cote d'Ivoire

Title of event:
SENSIBILISATION DES TOUT-PETITS DE L'ECOLE PRIMAIRE REHOBOTH par rapport à l'utilisation du matériel de jeu paint.

Brief description of event:
Notre activité consistera à réunir les enfants et le personnel de l'école REHOBOTH pour leur parler du PLOMB dans la peintura et le risque que courent les enfants au contact de la peinture usagée.

Target audience for event:
les enfants de cette école et le personnel y compris les parents d'élèves.

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
26/10/2016

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative  

Type of organization
Non-Profit

City/Area:
Baltimore, Maryland

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Turner Station Conservation Team Community Fair - NLPPW Outreach

Brief description of event:
Community Fair highlighting Baltimore County resources and services.

Target audience for event:
Baltimore County residents and Baltimore County Organizations.

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
24/10/2016

CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION (NGO)

City/Area:
LIVINGSTONE

Country:
Zambia

Title of event:
INTERNATIONAL LEAD POISONING PREVENTION WEEK OF ACTION 23-29 OCT. 2016

Brief description of event:
Raising of awareness on the impact of lead poisoning caused by the exposure to lead paint. Lobbying the enactment of National regulations to ban lead in paint.

Target audience for event:
We shall target children, teachers, parents, paint manufacturers and retailers,Government policy makers and the agents involved in the enforcement of national laws.

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Land and Human to Advocate Progress (LHAP) (NGO)

City/Area:
Amman

Country:
Jordan

Title of event:
Developing Jordanian National Legislation for Lead Management

Brief description of event:
The main activity is working on developing a national lead in paint legislation to manage lead in paint in the country. This document will be formed through recruiting two experts a legal and a technical. The two experts will come up with a draft national lead in paint legislation. Then the outcome will be discussed in a bigger group coming from different sectors: The government sector represented by the two Ministries of Environment and Health; the private sector represented by the paint companies; the academic institutions represented by Jordan University; the civil society organization active in the area of environment protection and media to publish the outcomes where the meeting will take place in LHAP meeting room. The product which is in this case the national lead in paint legislation will be sent in formal letters to the two Ministers of Environment and Health to consider adoption, the wider national committee, and to the printed and electronic media. The outcome will also be published on LHAP group page. Jordan is currently going through parliamentarian election and therefore by October the 18th Jordanian MP will be already formed. In this case, the document will also be sent to the legal and health committees of the new parliament for consideration and the establishment of communication with the government on the matter issue where many of LHAP friends and supporters run for election and some may win. Therefore, the aim is to come up with a lead in paint legislation. The deliverable will be the product legislation. The target of formation will be the different sectors concerned with the issue of lead in paint. The expected impact is driving the country, mainly the ministry of Health to adopt a national legislation to manager lead in paint in the country.

Target audience for event:
Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Health, paint industry, ENGOs and media

Start date:
01/10/2016

End date:
30/11/2016

Eco-Accord (NGO)

City/Area:
Moscow

Country:
Russian Federation

Title of event:
Raising public awareness on lead in paint issues in Russia

Brief description of event:
ECO-Accord to inform Russian officials about the results of lead in paint testing in Russia as well as suggest recommendations to address the problem; a press-release and a report containing new data on lead in paint will be disseminated via Russian media, NGOs, paint producers and retailers. Meetings with managers of the paint stores where lead containing paint was purchased will be organized with the goal to present new data and discuss the results of the research.

Target audience for event:
NGOs, governmental officials, paint manufacturers, consumers

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

City of Pompano Beach Utilities (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Pompano Beach FL/South Florida

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
NextDoor.com outreach campaign

Brief description of event:
The City of Pompano Beach Utilities Department will be posting the WHO's prepared media on the NextDoor.com Public Partnership portal to reach all 3,000 of our water service customers who subscribe to it.

Target audience for event:
City of Pompano Beach Utilities water service customers

Start date:
13/10/2016

End date:
13/10/2016

International Paint and Printing Ink Council (IPPIC) (NGO)

City/Area:
Washington DC

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Advancing Industry Support for the Lead Paint Alliance Partnership Program

Brief description of event:
The International Paint and Paint and Printing Ink Council continues to actively support the work of the Lead Paint Alliance in advancing its “Action Plan” goals for 2016 and beyond. Working collectively and in conjunction with the LPA “partners program”, IPPIC members have been encouraged to make an organizational commitment to the LPA as a “partner” as this is a clear indicator of industry (and paint manufacturer) support. To date, IPPIC is aware of formal partnership letters submitted by industry associations in Japan, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Canada, which collectively represent the support hundreds of paint companies in their combined membership. More can be expected as each IPPIC association completes its required approval process.

Target audience for event:
Paint Industry Associations and their Member Companies

Start date:
20/10/2016

End date:
30/12/2016

GAPROFFA-NGO (NGO)

City/Area:
Cotonou/Parrana

Country:
Benin

Title of event:
Lead free Paint public awareness raising

Brief description of event:
African population is facing several dangers related to the anarchic use of chemicals has lead paint. In Benin, several houses are painted with bad paintings. The population is not informed and do not know the harmful effects of these products on public health and the environment. The objective of the awareness raising is to sensitize the stakeholders on the hazards related to exposure to oil paint. The sensitization campaigns will be conduct in the city with stakeholders exposing on the paints for the behavior change of population in Benin. Press release statement will be done through media.

Target audience for event:
Two target audiences will be select to participate to the awareness meeting: directs actors and indirect actors:
- Directs actors or beneficiaries are the painters, paint sellers, mechanics agents, school managers, agents, students
- Indirect actors: students, parents, private sectors like enterprise workers, customers, policies, painter pregnant women

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative  

Type of organization
Non-Profit Organization

City/Area:
Baltimore, Maryland

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
“Day At The Market” East Baltimore Community Outreach Initiative

Brief description of event:
Free Community event highlighting local health agencies providing free resources and information.

Target audience for event:
East Baltimore community and community organizations.

Start date:
26/10/2016

End date:
26/10/2016

EPA Region 10 Lead & Asbestos Program (NGO)

City/Area:
Boise, Idaho

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
EPA Participates in the Annual Idaho's Boise Fall Home Show

Brief description of event:
We will have a booth to do outreach, raise awareness, and provide materials regarding Lead Poisoning Prevention, RRP and other lead-related information. This event is well attended by the community and Boise's surrounding cities. It is expected that over 6000 people (consumers/families and the regulated community) will attend this home show.

Target audience for event:
Consumers and contractors

Start date:
28/10/2016

End date:
30/10/2016

US EPA Region 10-Lead Program (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Boise, Idaho

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Boise Spring Home Show

Brief description of event:
Home show geared towards home improvements

Target audience for event:
Contractors and owners of pre-1978 homes

Start date:
28/10/2016

End date:
30/10/2016

Manchester Health Department (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Manchester, CT

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
LEAD-FREE KIDS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE—NATIONAL LEAD POISONING PREVENTION WEEK

Brief description of event:
In an effort to address these concerns, the Manchester Health Department is providing educational materials in the Town Hall lobby. Please stop by and pick up information that will help you reduce lead hazards in your home.

Target audience for event:
To raise awareness of the consequences of lead poisoning among parents and pregnant women who live in homes built before 1978.

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Torrington Area Health District (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Torrington

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

Brief description of event:
Along with putting out posters and signs we are going to be collaborating with Family Strides and WIC in holding a Halloween Lead Prevention Party. We are going to go over basic facts about lead, show participants the 3 bucket cleaning system, have participants sign up for a healthy homes inspection if you like, and a whole lot more.

Target audience for event:
Families with children under the age of 6 years old.

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

UNENGO MAMA-86 (NGO)

City/Area:
Kyiv, Kharkiv, Nova Kakhovka, Yaremche, Zaporozhye, Kropivnytskyi, Vynnytsia, Poltava, Mykolayiv

Country:
Ukraine

Title of event:
The international lead poisoning prevention week of action in Ukraine

Brief description of event:
1. Conduct awareness campaign in several kindergarten and schools in cities where there are the MAMA-86 branches.
2. Holding a press conference in Kyiv: 1 – the presentation of the report with data on levels of lead containing in paint sold in Ukraine as the results of the research which IPEN conducted to determine the levels of lead in paint sold in some countries4 2 – call to the Government and industries for urgent action.

Target audience for event:
General public, children and their families, teachers and employees of kindergartens, health care professionals, government authorities, industries, journalists

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
26/10/2016

District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Washington DC

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Thrift Store Ceramic Foodware Survey

Brief description of event:
Have you ever purchased ceramics from Thift Stores? We are surveying Thrift Store owners throughout Washington DC about their knowledge of the link between lead in ceramics, criterias on which they sell ceramic foodware and its popularity among patrons.

Target audience for event:
n/a

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
27/10/2016

King Fahad Medical city (Health care institution)

City/Area:
Riyadh

Country:
Saudi Arabia

Title of event:
awareness to public about dangers of lead poisoning

Brief description of event:
outreaching general public through social media
Our primary goal is to spread awareness about the dangers of exposure to paints containing lead

Target audience for event:
public

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NGO)

City/Area:
Brooklyn

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Free Soil Testing Workshop!

Brief description of event:
This is your last chance (until the spring) to get your soil tested by the experts at Brooklyn College Analytical Center! They bring the equipment right to our community and will test your soil on the spot. They'll also be educating and answering all questions regaurding urban soil and contamination.

This is a GCEF funded and totally free, family friendly workshop so don't be shy!

Maybe you've been excited to plant in your backyard but was worried about all the stories of lead contamination? Well we are here to EDUCATE and EXPLAIN how to be safe. We encourage gardening and interacting with soil- THE SAFE WAY! So come on out!

This workshop will take place at Eagle Street Rooftop Farms volunteer day and market so we can get our hands dirty right away.


The soil test will measure:
- Lead
- Arsenic
- Copper
- Zinc

Target audience for event:
Families, Gardeners, community members,

Start date:
30/10/2016

End date:
30/10/2016

Center for Environmental Solutions (NGO)

City/Area:
Minsk

Country:
Belarus

Title of event:
Lead-free paint campaign launch

Brief description of event:
CES will launch a public campaign to increase awareness about lead poisoning and contribute to ban of usage of lead in paints in Belarus.

Target audience for event:
Public, paint manufactures, importers, national regulators, mass media.

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
30/10/2016

Childhood Lead Action Project (NGO)

City/Area:
Newport, RI

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Community outreach table

Brief description of event:
The Childhood Lead Action Project will staff an outreach table at a clinic providing services to local families enrolled in WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children). We will provide information to parents and families about lead hazards, resources for lead poisoning prevention, and how to get involved in a grassroots campaign to eliminate lead poisoning.

#leadfreekids #LPPW2016 #LeadSafeRI #FindFixFund

Target audience for event:
parents, families, tenants, low-income residents, social service providers

Start date:
27/10/2016

End date:
27/10/2016

Moroccan Society of Clinical and Analytical Toxicology (NGO)

City/Area:
RABAT

Country:
Morocco

Title of event:
International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action (ILLPWA)

Brief description of event:
During this week, we will have several targets:
- A public awareness through publication of a newspaper article concerning this problem and the posting of the IPEN brochures and materials in this field on the Site of Poison Control Centre of Morocco (CAPM) and the Moroccan Society of Clinical and Analytical Toxicology (SMTCA)
- Physicians awareness through a Toxicovigilance Technical Committee meeting about saturnism
- Students and teachers awareness at a one public school as exemple
- Autorities awareness by publishing of an alert in the next issue of the CAPM journal: Toxicology Morocco

Target audience for event:
Public, physicians, autorities, students

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
27/10/2016

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative  

Type of organization
Non-Profit Organization

City/Area:
Baltimore, Maryland

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
“Day At The Market” East Baltimore Community Outreach Initiative

Brief description of event:
Free Community event highlighting local health agencies providing free resources and information.

Target audience for event:
East Baltimore community and community organizations.

Start date:
26/10/2016

End date:
26/10/2016

Rhode Island Department of Health (Government Agency)

City/Area:
198 Harrison Street, Pawtucket, RI

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Celebrating National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

Brief description of event:
"Find It, Fix It, Fund It" - The multifamily house to be showcased at this press conference is a great example of a collaborative effort to transform an abandoned building with lead hazards into safe, affordable housing for local families.

Target audience for event:
State, City, and Community Partners; General Public

Start date:
26/10/2016

End date:
26/10/2016

International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation  

Type of organization
International Advocacy Organisation

City/Area:
Hague

Country:
Netherlands

Title of event:
International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 2016

Brief description of event:
During international lead poisoning prevention week, educational materials were released over social media (i.e. facebook) giving information related to lead poisoning. For example:
- People most vulnerable to lead poisoning (e.g. pregnant women and children)
- The consequences of lead poisoning (e.g.intellectual disability)
- How to protect yourself from lead poisoning (e.g. avoiding inhalation)
- Where you can find lead (e.g. toys, paints and old pipes)
- How lead affects your body
The global health campaign created awareness through the medium of posters and captions further explaining the points mentioned above. These were then translated into more than one language for further understanding.

Target audience for event:
This campaign was aimed at pharmacy students around the world who would then share the information with the general public. Regions include: Eastern Mediterranean; African; Asia Pacific; European; and Pan-American.

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Philadelphia Department of Public Health  

Type of organization
City

City/Area:
Philadelphia, PA

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Healthy Neighborhood Project

Brief description of event:
Memphis Street Academy will host a Parent Teacher Organization meeting where the Healthy Neighborhood Project, a part of the Lead and Healthy Homes program, will present to parents about lead poisoning prevention. Memphis Street Academy is an elementary school in the 19134 zip code of Philadelphia; a target area for lead prevention services.

Target audience for event:
The target audience for this event are parents and guardians of children ages six and under.

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
25/10/2016

EPA Region 10 Lead & Asbestos Program (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Seattle

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Prevent Lead Poisoning

Brief description of event:
Region 10 uses social media (tweets, facebook, website) in raising awareness on lead poisoning prevention and the Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rule Requirements.

Target audience for event:
Consumers in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, & Washington

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

United Parents Against Lead (UPAL) (NGO)

City/Area:
Richmond

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
A Child is a Terrible Thing to Waste Lead Awareness Campaign

Brief description of event:
UPAL will team up with the Department of Health's Lead Safe Virginia Program to disseminate Lead Poisoning Prevention information to George Mason Elementary School's Kindergarten and First Grade students. This awareness and education program will feature the "Lead Dust Busters" kit and curriculum; The Sesame Street Lead Away! video viewing and students will receive Lead Away coloring books, crayons and Lead Growth charts while parents receive Lead in Your Water and Protecting Your Child from Lead information booklets.

Target audience for event:
Elementary school children, staff and parents of students at George Mason Elementary School in Richmond, Virginia.

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

United Parents Against Lead (UPAL) (NGO)

City/Area:
Richmond

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
A Child is a Terrible Thing to Waste Lead Awareness Campaign

Brief description of event:
UPAL will team up with the Department of Health's Lead Safe Virginia Program to disseminate Lead Poisoning Prevention information to George Mason Elementary School's Kindergarten and First Grade students. This awareness and education program will feature the "Lead Dust Busters" kit and curriculum; The Sesame Street Lead Away! video viewing and students will receive Lead Away coloring books, crayons and Lead Growth charts while parents receive Lead in Your Water and Protecting Your Child from Lead information booklets.

Target audience for event:
Elementary school children, staff and parents of students at George Mason Elementary School in Richmond, Virginia.

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

EPA Region 10 Lead & Asbestos Program (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Lead Poisoning Outreach Campaign

Brief description of event:
Region 10 sends out an article on Lead Poisoning Prevention by informing consumers and home contractors about the Rule - Renovation, Repair, and Painting Requirements.

Target audience for event:
Consumers and Contractors

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
25/10/2016

The "Center Cooperation for Sustainable Development"  

Type of organization
Social Fund

City/Area:
Almaty

Country:
Kazakhstan

Title of event:
Impact of lead on health and environment

Brief description of event:
Increasing awareness of students about the dangerous impact of lead on human health and the environment in general.

Target audience for event:
Students of "Ecology" specialization, NARXOZ University

Start date:
28/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

Georgia Development Agency (NGO)

City/Area:
Tbilisi

Country:
Georgia

Title of event:
International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week / Health and Safe School

Brief description of event:
1. Adding all provided By “International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week” educational materials on online spaces: Alliance “Healthy and safe School” members and partners, Social pediatrician funds,
Georgia development Agency, Georgian National Section of Euro Science (ESGNS)
2 Distributing flyers, posters and information schools, health professionals and public by online.
3. Involved on the campaign the dissension makers and prominent persons from art / music.

Target audience for event:
Dissuasion makers, civil society

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

US EPA, Region 8 and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Child Care and Schools Program (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Denver

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Release of the Child Care Lead Poisoning Prevention Infographic

Brief description of event:
In time for October’s Children’s Health Month and Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (October 23 -29), the US Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 Lead Program and Colorado Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE) Child Care and Schools Program completed a collaborative effort to create an infographic designed to help child care providers comply with Colorado’s new health and sanitation regulations related to lead poisoning prevention. The infographic is now accessible on CDPHE’s website. See link below.

Target audience for event:
Colorado Child Care Operators
Colorado Child Care Regulators
Colorado Families with Young Children

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

Childhood Lead Action Project (NGO)

City/Area:
Rhode Island

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Lead Poisoning Elimination Drive Social Media Campaign

Brief description of event:
The Childhood Lead Action Project will participate in a week-long social media campaign to raise awareness about lead hazards, resources for lead poisoning prevention, and opportunities for parents of lead poisoned children to get involved in a grassroots effort to eliminate lead poisoning. With our network of facebook followers, we are specifically highlighting the Find It, Fix It, Fund It Campaign, an effort spearheaded by the National Center for Healthy Housing aimed at eliminating lead poisoning in the United States in 5 years.

#leadfreekids #LPPW2016 #LeadSafeRI #FindFixFund

Target audience for event:
parents, grandparents, families, homeowners, tenants, workers, doctors, nurses, social service providers, lawyers, policymakers, environmental justice/housing/health advocates

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Asosiación Nacional de Fabricantes de Pinturas y Tintas A.C. (NGO)

City/Area:
Mexico

Country:
Mexico

Title of event:
Social media

Brief description of event:
A social media package that includes social media posts for Facebook and twitter

Target audience for event:
General

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative  

Type of organization
Non-Profit Organization

City/Area:
Baltimore, Maryland

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
“Baltimore Children’s Health Fair” Event w/ EPA, Baltimore City, and Morgan State University

Brief description of event:
Environmental justice event with multiple partners scheduled to tie in to the end of lead week. Working to tie outcomes (how the event affects the community) to the event, not just focused on the output. Also to include workshops from various participants.

Target audience for event:
Baltimore City students, parents, children, schools, community organizations, and residents throughout the entire city.

Start date:
29/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Environmental Protection Agency EPA Region 1, New Englad (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Boston, MA

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
LEAD AWARENESS WEEK

Brief description of event:
Display of materials relevant to Lead Poisoning and ways to prevent it. Lead Pipes and fittings on display to raise awareness of what to look for.

Target audience for event:
General Public visiting the McCormack Building in Post Office Square that includes lawyers and their clients going to the Court Rooms within the building.

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

Young Volunteers for the Environment, Nigeria (NGO)

Type of organization
NGO

City/Area:
Ibadan, Oyo state

Country:
Nigeria

Title of event:
School and community Lead Poisoning Awareness Day

Brief description of event:
This event is organize to sensitize students and communities' on the chemical related issues especially as it relates to lead.
The event would enable the participants get to know more about the dangers associated with lead.

Target audience for event:
Students, communities and invited non governmental organizations

Start date:
22/10/2016

End date:
22/10/2016

Massachusetts Department of Labor Standards (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Massachusetts

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Outreach

Brief description of event:
Blog post to 10,000 plus subscribers

Target audience for event:
Public

Start date:
27/10/2016

End date:
27/10/2016

Childhood Lead Action Project (NGO)

City/Area:
Pawtucket, RI

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Press Conference

Brief description of event:
Press conference with Pawtucket, RI Mayor Grebien, U.S. Senator Whitehouse, U.S. Congressman Cicilline, and state officials to raise awareness about lead hazards and the importance of prevention; announce the success of collaborative local efforts to protect homeowners, tenants, and workers from lead; and call for the implementation of the Find It, Fix It, Fund It campaign, a national effort to eliminate lead poisoning in the U.S. in 5 years. Jointly planned by the Childhood Lead Action Project and City of Pawtucket.

#leadfreekids #LPPW2016 #LeadSafeRI #FindFixFund

Target audience for event:
Media, parents, homeowners, tenants, workers, educators, policymakers

Start date:
26/10/2016

End date:
26/10/2016

Ecological Restorations (NGO)

City/Area:
Accra

Country:
Ghana

Title of event:
Lead paint in the development of the child

Brief description of event:
Ecological Restorations would use a featured article to call the attention of policy makers, producers/manufacturers of lead paint,consumers to the effect of lead on the development of the child.

Target audience for event:
n/a

Start date:
27/10/2016

End date:
27/10/2016

Toxics Link (NGO)

City/Area:
New Delhi

Country:
India

Title of event:
"Awareness program for lead (in paint) and its hazards."

Brief description of event:
Toxics Link is planning to air radio jingle during the week of action, at the same time the we will organize school program and the national level poster competition on Lead and its harm.

Target audience for event:
School children, general public, health care professionals, government authorities, industries

Start date:
20/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

Bridgeport Health Department Lead Poisoning Prevention (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Bridgeport

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
RRP Certification

Brief description of event:
Initial and refresher certification course will be held to teach methods to safely remove lead based paint

Target audience for event:
Property owners, landlords, property management firms, general carpenters, painters, electricians, realtors, will all benefit the people they work for and safeguard from adverse health effects due to lead exposure.

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
26/10/2016

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (NGO)

City/Area:
Baltimore, Maryland

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Live Webinar: Strategic Plan to End Childhood Lead Poisoning - A Five Year Blueprint for Action

Brief description of event:
Decades after ending lead in paint, gasoline, solder and other sources, lead poisoning remains one of the nation's most devastating environmental health threats. Now is the time to move the arc of public and political will, to bring an end to the toxic legacy of lead in the United States. The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative has developed a Strategic Plan - a set of broad policy recommendations to strategically marshal the financial resources and regulatory tools to end childhood lead poisoning as a major public health threat in the next five years.

Target audience for event:
Policy makers and regulators at federal, state and local level, NGOs in environmental health, housing and energy efficiency, social innovation finance professionals

Start date:
27/10/2016

End date:
27/10/2016

Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility (NGO)

City/Area:
Baltimore, MD

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Understanding Lead Poisoning in Baltimore and Maryland.

Brief description of event:
This workshop will examine the latest science on the toxicity of lead, with an emphasis on the developmental effects on children and implications in later life. Participants will learn about current policies and programs for medical and environmental interventions in Maryland and Baltimore, and have an opportunity to discuss what is known about sources and routes of exposure and blood lead levels in children. Participants and speakers will help identify information, data and knowledge gaps in current surveillance and intervention efforts.

Target audience for event:
Health professionals, health advocates and those interested in the well-being of children.

Start date:
27/10/2016

End date:
27/10/2016

The LEAD Group (NGO)

City/Area:
Sydney

Country:
Australia

Title of event:
Volcano Art Prize (VAP) 2016 awards ceremony

Brief description of event:
This is a photo / short film / art competition event held annually. Any film, photo or drawing which has lead safety awareness significance can be submitted. The objective of this competition is to spread lead poisoning awareness among the general population. The art competition is organised by The LEAD Group - a lead poisoning prevention charity organisation. There is no age bar for this competition. Thirty winning entries will receive a Picture products mug with their lead safety message and photo printed on it. The Judge’s choice and the People’s choice entries will each receive a cash prize.

Target audience for event:
Volcano Art Prize graphics since the competition began in 2012 are all archived at www.volcanoartprize.com and anyone anywhere in the world is welcome to select their favourite VAP entry and go to www.leadsafeworld.com /shop to order a Lead Safe World Poster of that entry. VAP is now open for 2017. Children and adult entrants from both OECD and non-OECD countries welcome. All children enter for free. Adults from OECD countries pay AU$10. The winners from overseas and outside Sydney will have the opportunity to “attend” the Award Ceremony via Skype.

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
24/10/2016

PA "Independent Ecological Expertise" (NGO)

City/Area:
Bishkek

Country:
Kyrgyzstan

Title of event:
Lead poisoning prevention week

Brief description of event:
The results of the study "Lead in oil paint for residential use in the Kyrgyz Republic" will send to the State Inspection environmental and technical safety of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic. Disseminate information on the dangers of lead in products, including paint products, a wide range of public through social media for the raising of awareness on the impact of lead poisoning caused by the exposure to lead paint.

Target audience for event:
Government, civil society, media, NGOs

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (NGO)

City/Area:
Yerevan and Grumri

Country:
Armenia

Title of event:
Lead in Paint campaign in Armenia

Brief description of event:
AWHHE is going to organize 4 events: 3 NGO meetings and a press conference. AWHHE has been organizing events related to the project supported by IPEN on study results of the lead in paints in Armenia.

Target audience for event:
The target audience of meetings are: Armenian NGOs; the Ministries of Health, Nature Protection, and Emergency Situations; academia, International Organizations (UNDP, UNICEF), experts. General public will receive information through mass media.

Start date:
14/09/2016

End date:
25/10/2016

EDEN Center (Environmental Center for Development, Education and Networking) (NGO)

City/Area:
Tirana

Country:
Albania

Title of event:
Lead Free New Generation

Brief description of event:
•Flashmob

This activity will help to increase the awareness of residents of Tirana in lead poisoning. The message of the Flashmob will be connected directly with the aim of the campaign.

•Educative lectures

EDEN will conduct 2 open classes in order to inform the students about the risk from the lead poisoning and they will be informed how to prevent lead poisoning. Lectures will contain information for lead in paint and will help students receive the necessary information
so they can disseminate the information to their families, friends, neighbors etc.

•Mini campaign in order to raise awareness

EDEN volunteers will design posters with awareness information and they will distribute them in different schools of Tirana and Health centers. Together with the posters we will distribute factsheets with data and information about lead paint poisoning.
We will organize as well competition in two elementary schools for the best slogan about lead poisoning.

Target audience for event:
•Inhabitants of Tirana
•General public
•Local and central governance
•Students of university

Start date:
26/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

Environment and Social Development Organizaiton-ESDO (NGO)

City/Area:
Dhaka

Country:
Bangladesh

Title of event:
"Campaign for Lead Free Paint : Legislation and Public Awareness"

Brief description of event:
ESDO is going to organize policy advocacy and public awareness activities for legislation to ban Lead Paint in Bangladesh. Activities are: Mass rally and mobile campaign will be conducted for public awareness and policy advocacy and focus media campaign also will be the major action. and participation of concerned personnel. 100 youth will be expected to be participating, so we are expecting to bring a positive concern about harmful effects of leaded paints among them. Moreover media campaign will get media coverage. Social media campaign is expected to reach out two thousand directly, indirect beneficiary to about one million.

Target audience for event:
Government, Paint Manufacturer’s Association, SMEs’, health care professionals, students and children. National Print and Electronic media personals

Start date:
27/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Ecological Waste Coalition of the Philippines (NGO)

City/Area:
Quezon City

Country:
Philippines

Title of event:
“Zombie Run to Beat Phaseout Deadline for Lead Decorative Paint”

Brief description of event:
On 23 October 2016, the EcoWaste Coalition will organize a “Zombie Run” at a public park to press for the full compliance to the 31 December phaseout deadline for lead-containing decorative paints. Zombies dressed as “lead paint cans” will run after the children to emphasize their vulnerability to the health effects from lead exposure. Towards the finish line, the participants will step on a marker at the ground that says: “Phase Out Lead Paint by 31/12/16.” Upon reaching the marker, the Zombies will drop dead to signify that their time in the market is up. Aside from the member groups of the EcoWaste Coalition, other stakeholders in the nation’s ongoing effort to eliminate lead paint will be invited to participate.

Target audience for event:
Stakeholders from the government, industries, academe, civil society and the general public are our target audience for the event.

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
23/10/2016

Centre for environmental Justice and Multilac Paints

Type of organization
CEJ is a NGO. Multilac Paint is a Major Paint Manufacturing Company in Sri Lanka.

City/Area:
Lead safe paint

Country:
Sri Lanka

Title of event:
Launching of first third party Certified Lead safe paint in Sri Lanka

Brief description of event:
Multilac is the first Sri Lankan paint Manufacturer to receive the lead safe Certification issued by the SCS Global. This came under the Third Party Certification process promoted by the Centre for Environmental Justice and IPEN under the European Union Funded Asia Lead Paint Elimination project from 2011-2015. CEJ filed legal action in 2011 and obtained mandatory lead level which is 90 ppm for Emulsion and 600 ppm for Enamel paint. Multilac has over 1200 products and under the Third Party Certification process and SCS global certified that all Multilac products are now lead safe.

Target audience for event:
General Public

Start date:
22/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

EcoContact (NGO)

City/Area:
Chisinau

Country:
Republic of Moldova

Title of event:
International lead poisoning prevention week of action in Moldova

Brief description of event:
National information and awareness events on lead poisoning prevention (press conference, workshops for governmental authorities and NGOs, schools, TV and radio programs) and presentation of the results of the IPEN´s Global Lead Paint Elimination Campaign

Target audience for event:
Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, governmental authorities, environmental and social NGOs, local paint producers and importers, youth organisations, schools

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

Academia, Government, NGOS and Industry  

Type of organization
Academia, Government, NGOS and Industry

City/Area:
Mombasa

Country:
Kenya

Title of event:
Commitment among Stakeholders and collaboration towards Establishment of National Standards and Regulations to Eliminate in Paint

Brief description of event:
Awareness creation to the target groups on lead poisoning and prevention through, banners, t-shirts,brochures, pamphlets, poems, songs, TVs, Magazines, Newspaper and social media. Presentation on commitment and progress made on the development of national standards to eliminate lead paint

Target audience for event:
Paint Manufacturers, Technical Committee Members involved in the Development of Standards, Students, Teachers and Communities affected by Lead Poisoning, Policy Makers at County Level as well as the National Government and General Public

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Lead-Free MV Coalition  

Type of organization
Other

If Other, please specify
Non-profit Coalition of Community Organizations/ Community Foundation backing

City/Area:
Utica

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
"Lead: Peeling Back the Layers" Presentation

Brief description of event:
The Lead-Free MV Coalition will offer a free presentation on the history of lead poisoning in our country, featuring David Rosner, PhD, & Gerald Markowitz, PhD, authors of “Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children". Following the presentation, a panel of local lead experts will discuss the impact of lead poisoning in our communities. Panelists include: David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz, Phyllis Ellis - Director of Health for the Oneidad County Health Department, Helene Cecconi - Community Health Nurse Supervisor for Herkimer County Public Health, Mark Warfel - St. Elizabeth Family Medicine Residency Program Director and Director of Medical Education for Mohawk Valley Health System, Gene Allen - Marketing Director of the Utica Urban Renewal Agency. In recent years, Oneida County has had one of the highest levels of childhood lead poisoning in the state. The Lead-Free MV Coalition seeks to eradicate childhood lead poisoning in our region by eliminating lead hazards in pre-1978 housing, expanding testing and increasing community awareness of the problem.

Target audience for event:
Community members in Herkimer & Oneida Counties, New York. Health Officials, Community Foundation partners, students, healthcare providers, Federal and State officials involved with similar lead poisoning prevention initiatives.

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
25/10/2016

Research Centre for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED) ... (NGO)

City/Area:
Hanoi

Country:
Viet Nam

Title of event:
Lead in Paint Report Launch and Public Awareness Raising

Brief description of event:
CGFED will release the results of the study on lead in paint that it conducted in collaboration with IPEN. A short film will be prepared based on the findings and recommendations arising from the study, which will be shown in local television.

Target audience for event:
Government regulators, paint manufacturers, paint consumers and the general public

Start date:
28/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

National Center of Public Health  (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Chisinau

Country:
Republic of Moldova

Title of event:
Evaluation of Exposure associated to lead compounds

Brief description of event:
1)to ensure the collection of biological samples in the general population for lead testing;
2) collecting soil samples from polluted areas of town and testing them for lead;
3) To accord the methodical assistance to public health institutions in the country in organizing and conducting the communication and information for organization the International Week on preventing lead poisoning;
4) To sent the analitical report to the Ministry of Health by November 16, 2016
5)to organized communication activities, information and awareness within the International Week on preventing lead poisoning, which include: public discussions and individual lessons open action in the community, radio and TV, press information etc .;
6) to collaborate with the media (press, television, radio), education institutions, local authorities, NGOs, families in order to raise awareness about preventing lead poisoning.

Target audience for event:
n/a

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
30/10/2016

"Health XXI" (NGO)

City/Area:
Tbilisi

Country:
Georgia

Title of event:
“Lead-free Environment for Children’s Health”

Brief description of event:
1. Seminar will be conducted for medical students to be involved in raising awareness campaign on lead-paint exposure and health risks in children;
2. Raising awareness campaign will be carried out together with students in kindergartens, children’s hospital and communities in the old districts of the city;
3. Materials will be translated and published into Georgian language; Posters will be displaced in the Campus;
4. Presentations will be prepared focusing on: preventability of lead poisoning’s serious health effects in children; importance of testing home, testing child;
5. Campaign material will be posted on the University website and in social media.

Target audience for event:
1. Medical University Students and faculty staff;
2. Children, parents, guardians, teachers, medical professionals;
3. Communities in the old parts of the city as well as General public via social media;
4. Municipality authority in the old part of the city to engage their attention for active contribution to problem solution.

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development (SRADev Nigeria)| (NGO)

City/Area:
Lagos

Country:
Nigeria

Title of event:
Public outreach and advocacy to regulate Lead use in paint in Nigeria

Brief description of event:
The event involves holding a public outreach to paints sellers/marketers and meeting their trade union in Mushin, Lagos to disseminate (handbills) the dangers Lead use in paint pose to children and pregnant women especially and their alternatives. The event will also intimate them on government’s upcoming regulation and certification, sound message on the dangers of lead in paint. Courtesy visits will also be pain to government agencies SON, Ministry of Environment, LASEPA etc).

Target audience for event:
paint sellers, paint marketers, government regulatory agencies, media, general public

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

State of Tennessee's Lead Hazard Program (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Nashville, Tennessee

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Celebrate Lead-Free Kids at the Tennessee Tower

Brief description of event:
Calling all families and friends! Come join us at the Tennessee Tower Plaza in downtown Nashville on Tuesday, October 25 from 10 am to 2 pm for free popcorn, hot dogs, live music, and other giveaway prizes to celebrate “Lead-Free Kids for a Healthy Future.”

Target audience for event:
Parents and General Public

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
25/10/2016

Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance (NGO)

City/Area:
Omaha

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Lead Free in Five

Brief description of event:
Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance, the City of Omaha, Methodist College and Nebraskans for Civic Reform are hosting a day of events to honor national lead week. The Lead Free in Five campaign will be launched at a luncheon and will highlight being done and a plan for lead elimination in Omaha.

Target audience for event:
Elected officials, community leaders, parents, everyone.

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
24/10/2016

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Banjaluka, Republic of Srpska

Country:
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Title of event:
International lead poisoning prevention week of action

Brief description of event:
During the International lead poisoning prevention week of action 23-29 October 2016, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in cooperation with the Republic Administration for Inspection Affairs and the Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Srpska will support the international lead poisoning prevention week of action by testing crayons and similar products children use daily that might contain lead. These products will be sampled in department stores and sent for the analysis.
Final report will be published in mass media.
The Ministry will also prepare informative materials regarding the campaign and importance of it, and these will be published on web site as well as in mass media during the international lead poisoning prevention week of action.

Target audience for event:
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016.

International Paint and Printing Ink Council (IPPIC) (NGO)

City/Area:
Washington DC USA

Country:
Colombia

Title of event:
Industry Workshop on Restricting Lead Use in Residential and Decorative Paints

Brief description of event:
In support of the International Week of Action, IPPIC is pleased to announce a series of two industry workshops to be held in Medellin and Bogota Colombia on November 9 and 10, 2016 respectively. These workshops, which will be focused on industry education and technical requirements for lead use restriction in residential and decorative paints, are being organized by ABRAFATI which is the Brazilian Paint Association, an IPPIC- affiliated organization and a member of LatinPIN - the Latin America regional alliance of coatings technicians and paint manufacturers.

The workshops will draw on support of STAR and ACTR, paint technical societies from Colombia, and ANAFAPITY which is the industry association in México. The IPPIC Secretariat will participate in these workshops, which will feature content from the current LPA “toolkit”, as well as technical support provided by local standards organizations. Representatives from the Colombian government and local NGO’s have been invited to attend and participate. A detailed summary of the workshops will be provided to the UNEP and WHO Secretariat to the LPA.

Target audience for event:
Paint Industry Associations and their Member Companies

Start date:
09/11/2016

End date:
10/11/2016

AGENDA for Environment and Responsible Development (AGENDA) (NGO)

City/Area:
Dar es Salaam

Country:
United Republic of Tanzania

Title of event:
We need standards to control lead in paint in Tanzania

Brief description of event:
Tanzania has no standard to control lead paint. AGENDA will organize a media event for demanding the government to endorse lead paint standard. This will be done in collaboration with consumers groups who will raise their voices demanding a ban of lead paint to protect their children’s health. It will also be used to raise public awareness that the country lacks standard to control lead in paint. It will outline the effects of lead paint and why children are the most vulnerable.
There will also be a dialogue with industries urging them to produce lead-free paints.

Target audience for event:
Consumer NGO, Industries, government officials especially from the ministries responsible for health and environment. But more important is the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) which is formulating the standard for lead in paint; and the representative from the GEF focal point in Tanzania.

Start date:
26/10/2016

End date:
26/10/2016

Foundation to support civil initiatives (Dastgiri-Center) (NGO)

City/Area:
Dushanbe

Country:
Tajikistan

Title of event:
Lead poisoning prevention week

Brief description of event:
Information about results of the study "Lead in oil paint for residential use in Tajikistan". The rezults of the study will send to the Ministry of the health and social protections of Tajikistan, State Committee of environment protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan. Dissemination information on the dangers of lead in the paint products between government organizations, civil society, NGOs, press-people. Raising awareness on the impact of lead poisoning caused by the exposure to lead paint through social media, websites, newspapers, meetings.

Target audience for event:
n/a

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Volgograd-Ecopress Information Centre (NGO)

City/Area:
Volgograd

Country:
Russian Federation

Title of event:
Lead-free paint to every home

Brief description of event:
Information about lead paint will be prepared and disseminated in the form of short leaflets. This activity will help to raise stakeholder awareness about lead threat to the health of children and lead paint as a significant source of exposure. A press-conference will be held to highlight the importance of lead elimination from paint and the available data. Both activities will provide an input into raising public awareness on lead content in paint produced or sold in Russia and contribute to the overall goal of elimination of lead from paint in the country.

Target audience for event:
Local authorities, schools, kindergartens, family doctors, civil society groups and local media groups

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Julia Lead The Way Lead Poisoning Awareness Group  

Type of organization
Lead Poisoning Awareness

City/Area:
Marshfield, Ma

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Social media posts for lead poisoning awareness consisting of videos, articles and petitions specific to eliminating lead poisoning

Brief description of event:
Sharing the #Finditfunditfixit hashtag until lead poisoning is a disease of the past!

Target audience for event:
Planet Earth

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Human Health Institute (NGO)

City/Area:
Astana

Country:
Kazakhstan

Title of event:
Press conference dedicated to a study of lead content in paints

Brief description of event:
Astana, October 27th 2016
During the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, a press conference dedicated to a study of lead content in paints will be held at "Park Inn by Radisson Astana" (8A Saryarka ave., Conference Hall) at 10 AM.
The study was conducted by NGO "Greenwomen" in Almaty and public association "Human Health Institute" in Astana.
Representatives of governmental structures and international organizations, ecology experts, environmental activists and members of the public will participate in the event.
The event program includes:
1. Discussion of effects of lead content in paints for household purposes;
2. Presentation of information about effects of lead on human body.

Target audience for event:
Representatives of governmental structures and international organizations, ecology experts, environmental activists and members of the public

Start date:
27/10/2016

End date:
27/10/2016

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, Lewiston- Auburn, Maine (NGO)

City/Area:
Lewiston/Auburn, Maine

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Sign Up for FREE Lead Dust Kits

Brief description of event:
Homeowners and tenants can stop in at any one of the participating organizations to sign up for a FREE lead dust kit or sign up online.

Target audience for event:
Homeowners and tenants

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

European Environment and Health Youth Coalition (NGO)

City/Area:
Vilnius

Country:
Lithuania

Title of event:
Lead Poisoning Prevention - Putting People First

Brief description of event:
The main aim of the awareness raising campaign is to foster communication and lead poisoning prevention information exchange in order to improve mutual understanding as well as to mobilize youth communities and the whole society to bring about the necessary change in attitudes and behavior. The campaign will be run via virtual youth communication channels. The expected outcome of the event is statement to policy decision makers.

Target audience for event:
Youth organizations, informal groups, students, youth professionals, young researchers and activists, young entrepreneurs and young government employees.

Start date:
22/10/2016

End date:
30/10/2016

US Environmental Protection Agency (Government Agency)

If Other, please specify
Academia, Public Health, NGO

City/Area:
Baltimore, MD

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Baltimore Children's Health Fair

Brief description of event:
A children's health fair will be held on the campus of Morgan State University. This event recognizes both Children's Health month (October) and National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (10/23-29, 2016). Vendors and training sessions will be available on subjects such as lead, asthma, healthy homes, sickle cell anemia, environmental justice, and tenants' rights. In addition, the full EPA Lead-Safe Renovation Certification course will be offered. There will be a fire engine, a costume parade, featuring Derrick the Dinosaur, snacks and games for kids.

Target audience for event:
The audience is parents and young children.

Start date:
29/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

1-Health environment management agency- Ministry of Health of Vietnam, 2-Poison control center of Bach Mai hospital, 3-National institute of occupational and environmental health (Government Agency)

If Other, please specify
Co-operation of 3 goverment and healthcare institutions

City/Area:
Hanoi and North eastern province of Hưng Yen

Country:
Viet Nam

Title of event:
Workshop and announcement by mass media

Brief description of event:
1. On 28/10/2016: Workshop on the reduction of exposureto lead by children and workers in Dong Mai village, Chi Dao commune, Van Lam district, Hung yen province, Vietnam
2. 04/11/2016: Workshop on the situation of lead poisoning and interention measures

Target audience for event:
Leaders of local administrative authorities, public health workers, local workers and people, mass media

Start date:
28/10/2016

End date:
04/11/2016

UN Environment and the Government of China (Solid Management Center of Environment Protection Department)  

Type of organization
IGO and the Government of China co-hosting the event

City/Area:
Beijing

Country:
China

Title of event:
"Lead Based Paint Substitution and Recycling of Lead Acid Batteries"

Brief description of event:
The event is organised within the framework of the 11th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology (ICWMT) that is taken place from 21-24 October 2016 in Beijing, China. The event focus on lead based paint substitution and the efforts from the Government of China and other stakeholders to eliminate lead paint worldwide under the framework of the work of the Lead Paint Alliance. ICWMT is an important international platform for specialists and officials to discuss scientific problems, exchange experiences, and look for innovative solutions. Initiated by Basel Convention Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific, ICWMT has been held 10 times since its inception in 2005.

Target audience for event:
Governments, research institutions, universities and industries. There were more than 500 delegates from nearly 30 countries participating in ICWMT10.

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
24/10/2016

Louisiana Healthy Homes and Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (Government Agency)

City/Area:
New Olreans, Louisiana

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Louisiana Celebrates Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

Brief description of event:
Throughout the week, LHHCLPPP will:
• Educate and train over 1,500 people on lead poisoning prevention;
• Provide free lead testing at WIC clinics in the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines and St. Bernard;
• Survey physicians about their lead testing practices through a collaboration with the New Orleans Health Department and work with American Academy of Pediatrics to distribute the Lead Poisoning Prevention Physician Flyer to all pediatricians in their database;
• Provide targeted initiatives in Regions 1, 6 and 8 in the state;
• Partner with Text4baby to raise awareness of mandatory lead screening laws to all Text4baby enrollees with children 0-12 months of age;
• Host the WIC Clinic Lead Testing Award Luncheon and announce the Lead Poisoning Prevention Champion Partner Awardee at the LHHCLPPP State Advisory Board Meeting
• Raise awareness about lead and its effects on human health by participating in health fairs, presentations, advisory board meetings, trainings and events at area WIC clinics, local Head Start programs, churches, universities, state agencies and community-based organizations

Target audience for event:
This annual awareness campaign highlights to Louisianans the importance of testing homes for lead, testing children for lead poisoning and learning how to prevent lead poisoning to all Louisiana residents.

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Direccion General de Salud Ambiental (Government agency)

City/Area:
asunciòn

Country:
Paraguay

Title of event:
Taller

Brief description of event:
Seminario organizado por la DIGESA junto con ALTERVIDA donde se trabajara con los empresarios, Gobierno, Sociedad Civil.

Target audience for event:
Asuncion

Start date:
28/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

Colnodo / Red de Desarrollo Sostenible (NGO)

City/Area:
Bogotá

Country:
Colombia

Title of event:
Presentation of the Report Lead-based paint solvents for domestic use in COLOMBIA 2016

Brief description of event:
Colnodo and the Sustainable Development Network will release the Report Lead-based paint solvents for domestic use in COLOMBIA 2016 and start an advocacy campaign through the Sustainable Development Network - www.rds.org.co to aim paint manufacturers to produce lead free paints and to advocate policy makers at the Colombian Senate to pass the bill that will limit the lead content in paints sell in Colombia and the general public to get informed about the risks of lead exposure, especially to childrens.

Target audience for event:
Paint manufactures, policy makers, general public.

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Consumers' Association of Penang (NGO)

City/Area:
Penang

Country:
Malaysia

Title of event:
Eliminate Lead in Paint

Brief description of event:
Prepare and issue a press release calling for promulgation of regulation to ban lead in paint. This is a follow-up to our lead paint elimination campaign.

Target audience for event:
Government, paint industries, public (consumers)

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
26/10/2016

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative  

Type of organization
Non-Profit Organization

City/Area:
Baltimore, Maryland

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Kick Off Press Conference

Brief description of event:
Press Conference to highlight importance of lead poisoning prevention as well as preview events throughout NLPPW 2016.

Target audience for event:
Public event

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
24/10/2016

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative  

Type of organization
Non-Profit Organization

City/Area:
Baltimore, Maryland

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Contractor Training Webinar (Delivered in Spanish)

Brief description of event:
Webinar to provide information to contractors about best practices for lead work in Maryland (delivered in Spanish).

Target audience for event:
Spanish speaking contractors in Maryland.

Start date:
26/10/2016

End date:
26/10/2016

Childhood Lead Action Project (NGO)

City/Area:
Providence, RI

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Banner Displayed on City Hall

Brief description of event:
Massive lead poisoning prevention awareness banner displayed on the front of City Hall in Providence, the capital city of Rhode Island, facing the central hub of the statewide bus system. The message is Lead-Safe Homes = Lead-Safe Kids, with contact information for programs available to help families to eliminate lead-paint hazards. Jointly coordinated by the Childhood Lead Action Project and City of Providence.

#leadfreekids #LPPW2016 #LeadSafeRI #LeadSafePVD

Target audience for event:
Parents, homeowners, tenants, workers, tourists, Providence residents, Rhode Island residents

Start date:
23/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative

Type of organization
Non-Profit Organization

City/Area:
Baltimore, Maryland

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Contractor Outreach Initiative

Brief description of event:
Contractor focused outreach, delivered in person to contractors at Habitat for Humanity's Restore.

Target audience for event:
Contractors, and others conducting renovation work in homes built before 1978.

Start date:
27/10/2016

End date:
27/10/2016

State of Tennessee (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Nashville, TN

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Event

Brief description of event:
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) will host a free event – featuring food, music and giveaways – to raise awareness of lead poisoning prevention for children on Oct. 25 at the Tennessee Tower in downtown Nashville. From 10 a.m.-2 p.m., TDEC’s Lead Hazard Program will have informational resources available as well as games, food and entertainment for families.

This year’s National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week theme, “Lead-free Kids for a Healthy Future”, focuses on ways parents can reduce a child’s risk to lead exposure, primarily from lead-based paint and drinking water. Children five and under are most at risk from lead exposure and its serious health effects. Lead can be found in paint, soil in yards or playgrounds, and drinking water.

Target audience for event:
Parents with children under five years old.

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
25/10/2016

Vermont Department of Health Rutland District Office (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Rutland, VT

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Foster Parent training

Brief description of event:
training class for soon-to-be foster parents

Target audience for event:
foster parents and families

Start date:
27/10/2016

End date:
27/10/2016

Vt. Dept. of Health (Government Agency)

City/Area:
Brattleboro, Vt.

Country:
United States of America

Title of event:
Historical perspective of lead poisoning & positive impact of public health

Brief description of event:
Presentation @ monthly Vt. Dept. of Health District office staff meeting. Discussed briefly lead poisoning through the ages (ancient Rome, 1800 & early 1900's-probable impact on well known artists to 1960's - present. Discussion of past acceptable lead levels to current here in Vt. Review of current local WIC program practices as well as current local community support/need.

Target audience for event:
Local Vt. Dept. of Health public health staff.

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
25/10/2016

The Mombasa Lead Alliance

Type of organization
A coalition of National and County Governments, Academia, NGO, Industry and Community

City/Area:
Mombasa

Country:
Kenya

Title of event:
Building commitment among stakeholders towards the establishment of national standards to eliminate lead in paint

Brief description of event:
Our goal is to initiate the County of Mombasa into the lead alliance by collaborating with the County Government and key stakeholders in awareness, advocacy and capacity building for the adoption of national standards and best practices in lead poisoning prevention, response and recovery

Target audience for event:
Mombasa Paint Artisans, Brain Youth Group, Pwani University, University of Nairobi, Technical University of Mombasa, County Government of Mombasa, Eco Ethics Kenya, CEJAD, Fort Jesus-NMK, Kenya Red-Cross, KIRDI, MoH, UNEP, KEBS, KNH, NEMA, AAK, KCS, Crown Paints, MTTI, Media and Bamburi Cement

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

SRM MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER-SRM/Stratus, Center for Medical Simulation, (Academic institution)

City/Area:
Chennai

Country:
India

Title of event:
Lead Poisoning prevention

Brief description of event:
Posters on Lead Poisoning prevention displayed in vantage areas in Medical college & Hospital including, Nursing College, Pediatrics Department,ER, Library and Notice Boards of Dean, ProVc, MS and Deputy MS.
Email of Indian Scenario in Lead poisoning with WHO Posters as attachment sent to Admin heads,faculties and students

Target audience for event:
Faculties, Students of Medical and Nursing Colleges, admin Heads, patients and OP registrants including Pregnant women and Children

Start date:
25/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016

WHO European Center for Environment and Health, WHO Regional Office for Europe (IGO)

City/Area:
Bonn

Country:
Germany

Title of event:
Awareness raising campaign

Brief description of event:
Distribution of WHO International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Actions materials among participants of the WHO Regional Office for Europe meeting on sustainability of health systens scheduled on 24-25 October and briefinf on the Week during the meeting
Publication of information on environmental health problems related to lead in WHO European Region on WHO Europe web-site

Target audience for event:
represntatives of government, institutions and non-governmental organizations

Start date:
24/10/2016

End date:
28/10/2016

Pollution Control Association of Liberia (NGO)

City/Area:
Monrovia

Country:
Liberia

Title of event:
Awareness Raising Campaign

Brief description of event:
The event will start with a newspaper publication describing the activities that will be carried out. The second activity will be an indoor program in an elementary school in the Sinkor, Monrovia area. the third activity will be community awareness thru poster distrubutions in the Redlight area in Paynesville city.

Target audience for event:
Target audience include students, the general reading public, community leaders, teachers etc

Start date:
26/10/2016

End date:
29/10/2016