Be the change you want, hero day June 13

Children do not have super hero powers. Children cannot stop adults from abusing them. It is an adults job to look after kids and keep kids safe because adults are big and sensible and protective.

Some adults just look big and sensible and protective. In the middle of the night though they turn into monsters with super human abilities – the ability to force a child to accommodate sexual abuse and to stay silent about it.

In come the heroes: you and I. In the middle of our nights, and days, we can use our super vision powers to be the hero that abused children only ever dare to dream about seeing – a person who can help stop bad things from happening to little, powerless people.

Thank God we have national heroes like the Australian Childhood Foundation. Thanks to support from little heroes like us, the Australian Childhood Foundation can don their huge cape of protection and fly all over Australia making sure that abused kids are comforted and looked after. The foundation also does research, education and they help support families to stay together because non abusive family and kids belong together. But, this takes a lot of money and the foundation is not funded by the Government – they are a charity.

These big fella Australian Childhood Foundation heroes need help from each of us smaller heroes. On June 13, it is Childhood Hero Day. The Australian Childhood Foundation is selling capes and badges and they ask each of us to please wear them on June 13 as an outward sign of our super commitment toward a culture of zero tolerance toward child abuse. I have already ordered our capes and badges and I urge you to join me in hero dress on June 13. You can buy your super hero capes or badges here.

As well as having purchased the fundraising merchandise to wear on June 13, Imaginif will be making a donation as part of our corporate social responsibility policy. We understand that not everybody can afford to buy merchandise or make a donation. As a blogger and contributor toward creating social change, here’s an alternative you may well be interested in:  

Spread the hero word through the blogosphere: Write a post about Childhood Hero Day on June 13 and link back to this post. On top of Imaginif’s corporate donation, I will also donate a dollar for each blog post that positively supports Childhood Hero Day (that’s why you have to link back to this post – so I can track how many thousands I’ll have to give to the Australian Childhood Foundation).

Make your own donation to Childhood Hero Day here
Buy a cape or badge here
Find out more about Childhood Hero Day here
Find out more about the Australian Childhood Foundation here.

People already blogging about Hero Day (please let me know via trackback or comment so I can add your post here too):

Heroes Dig Australian Childhood Foundations
Childhood Hero Day June 13
Childhood Hero Day June 13 (Jean Burman, Cairns artist)
Childhood Hero Day (Three Times Kewl)