The Pink Campervan is coming to Manawatu-Wairarapa !
Each year our breast health nurses travel around New Zealand in our iconic Pink Campervan, to talk about mammograms, offer advice about checking your breasts, healthy lifestyles and family risk.
Our nurses have valuable advice about symptoms, treatments, support groups and post-surgery options. The breast care nurses have visual and hands-on displays of breast cancer symptoms that most haven’t seen before, and will use prosthetic breasts to show what a lump feels like.
Our breast nurses would love to have a chat to you so pop in and say hi. We’ll be at the locations below on the following dates:
Monday, February 12, 2024
New World Pioneer
179-197 Main Street, Palmerston North
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
PAK'nSAVE Palmerston North
327 Ferguson St, Palmerston North 4410
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
New World Aokautere
194/200 Ruapehu Drive, Fitzherbert, Palmerston North 4410
Thursday, February 15, 2024
New World Levin
21 Bath Street, Levin
Monday, February 19, 2024
Main Street, Pahiatua
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
New World Dannevirke
8 Barraud Street, Dannevirke, 4930
Thursday, February 22, 2024
New World Feilding
42 Aorangi Street, Feilding
Monday, February 26, 2024
Main Street, Eketāhuna
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Te Aroha Noa
10 – 28 Brentwood Avenue, Palmerston North
Worst Xmas ever?
There's a a lot of planning that goes into Christmas day and sometimes things just don't go to plan. But it can be a good thing - a family mishap or hilarious memory that you can laugh about in Christmases to come.
Whether you burnt the dinner or were stranded at an airport...
Share your Christmas mishaps below!
⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️