HAPPY NATIONAL JANDAL DAY!
For all those readers not from New Zealand a better give you a bit of a breakdown…
What is a Jandal?
A “Jandal” is New Zealand Slang for Flip Flops or Sandals. Hence where our travel blog name comes from as well!
What is National Jandal Day?
National Jandal Day is held every summer in New Zealand to support the local Surf Lifeguards that patrol our beaches every year, usually as volunteers. By wearing your jandals (or Flip Flops) on Friday 2 December 2011 and pledging a donation you are helping to support safer summers on New Zealand’s beaches.
New Zealand Surf Lifeguards rescue 1,500 people each year and prevent a further 350,000 from getting into difficulty, but alarmingly New Zealand still has one of the worst rates of drowning in the developed world. They need your help!
Surf Life Saving New Zealand is one of New Zealand’s most respected charities and as a past Volunteer Surf Lifesaver I know how much work and effort is involved every summer.
Since we are not in New Zealand this year we thought we should reach out to all our readers and kindly ask for some support. We would love it if you could check behind the couch, under the car seats or in your jacket pockets to find some spare coins to donate. Every single cent raised will be donated and none of it is passing through our hands as the link below goes directly to the New Zealand Surf Lifesaving website.
New Zealand Surf Lifesaving Donation Site
Just wanted to make it clear that this is no affiliate link or anything like that. Just good honest support.
And if you don’t want to offer up a donation then that is fine as well but please just retweet this post or send it out to all your followers on Facebook or just where your Jandals in support. It would mean an awful lot to us and our friends back home!
When you visit New Zealand next time you might need the Surf Lifesavers help yourself!