Social Media
EDSNZ created our own hashtag that could be used all over Social Media to promote May Awareness Month #EDSNZMay2022 while Ehlers-Danlos Society created the hashtags #MyEDSChallenge and #MyHSDChallenge. These hashtags were used on Facebook, Lindkdin, Instagram, Tiktok and Fitbit to promote awareness about EDS and how it affects each person individually. Thank you to everyone who took the time to promote not only EDS but also EDSNZ this month. You’ve all done an amazing job.
Prize Giving
2022 saw us host our first every prizegiving. Eligible participants from our two events and social media awareness campaign were entered automatically in the draw to win some fantastic prizes from our sponsors. Below is the results of our prize giving.
Winners –
Kiwifruit Green from Zespri NZ
- Rick McZany
- Emerald Maz
- Wheely Wives
Kiwifruit Gold from Zespri NZ
- Hazel Watson-Smith
- Emma Cochrane
- Kerry-Anne Turner
Shakti Mat from Shakti Mat NZ
- Evelyn Philip
- Lenette Breytenbach
Getting Lost Game from Getting Lost NZ
Easy Tie Shoelaces from C1 South
Migraine Mask from Spirit Sparkplugs
In addition, each participant in our May Events won a small prize pack consisting of a set of 2 Zebra Striped Masks and 1 set of Glasses Clips for wearing masks from Spirit Sparkplugs, and 1 EDSNZ Phone grip and 1 EDSNZ Lanyard from EDSNZ!
Thank you again to all our participants, we couldn’t have had such a successful May Awareness Month without you all.
Prizegiving was done via WheelOfNames.com.
In total, through our communities’ various efforts to raise funds for EDSNZ we were donated the grand total of $4619! This was more than we ever expected to raise and quite frankly everyone at EDSNZ is grateful and in awe of how our community came together this May to support EDSNZ and help us with our various causes and discuss some interesting topics.
Again, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone for the support and for everyone’s efforts to raise awareness this month, we’re looking forward to next May already!