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Our Live Better calendar was packed with activities aligned with global wellbeing focus areas - mental, physical, financial and connection. They included Corporate Games in Australia and New Zealand, fortnightly mental wellbeing webinars, a SoPac 10k step challenge, financial planning sessions, onsite massages, health checks and skin cancer checks.
South Pacific teams took part in Colgate Cares Days through an array of volunteering activities including building enclosures for a wildlife rescue centre, packing household donations for families in need, cleaning up beach litter, feeding residents at a care home, and volunteering at a food bank warehouse. Our New Zealand team partnered with Chemist Warehouse to run a Bright Smiles, Bright Futures™ (BSBF) promotion, offering schools free dental health oral care kits. BSBF has been improving oral health in the South Pacific for over 20 years, as part of our global BSBF program which has reached over 2 billion children worldwide since 1991.
Bright Smiles Bright Futures ™ has been running since 1996 in South Pacific and we have reached more than 16 million children in partnership with schools,
government and community - helping children and their families to take control of their oral health, and creating smiles across the region.
Our Papua New Guinea (PNG) team focused on community health, celebrating the nation's Golden Jubilee through "Bright Smiles, Bright Futures" oral hygiene education, covering 476,000 participants across the country. Other key initiatives included the 14th National Tooth Brushing Day, reaching over 262,000 students, and partnering with YWAM for rural dental screenings. Global Handwashing Day in October was also a huge success with 375,000 people taking part.
Customers applied online at Chemist Warehouse to receive two boxes of 20 kits, aimed at improving children's oral health in the community.
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