FLORENCE, ITALY – The seventh annual World Autism Awareness Day is April 2, 2014. Every year, autism organizations around the world celebrate the day with unique fundraising and awareness-raising events. To share your events, photos and Autism Kindness Acts (#AKA) go to Autismspeaks.org/LIUB .
And if you’re on Twitter, use #LIUB to share your experience helping light the world up blue this April. In Florence, Italy, you can see in blue the Loggia dei Lanzi.
World Autism Awareness Day has been held every year since 9 September 1989. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution “62/139. World Autism Awareness Day,” adopted on 18 December 2007, proposed by Qatar, and supported by all member states.
Light It Up Blue, annually observed on April 2 is dedicated to raising awareness of autism. Autism Speaks, the controversial autism research organization, announced the launch of the inaugural Light It Up Blue campaign in 2010.
This initiative is intended to raise international awareness of autism as a growing public health crisis in support of World Autism Awareness Day and Autism Awareness Month in the United States and Europe.
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