For the final week of September WIT be selling merchandise and tickets for a raffle to be held on the last day of September at the Golden Moments Afternoon Tea event in the Toursim & Leisure Building at WIT.
The Childhood Cancer Foundation runs the Light It Up Gold Campaign for childhood cancer awareness every September. Waterford Institute of Technology is holding a series of events to support this worthy campaign as well as increasing awareness of a great charity and a terrible disease.
The Childhood Cancer Foundation is a charity close to the hearts of WIT staff as unfortunately, three mothers and a grandmother working in WIT have had a child or grandchild diagnosed with cancer in recent years.
WIT is helping create awareness with:
Golden Moments Afternoon Tea on 30 September.
Turning our website (www.wit.ie) and our online learning platform (http://moodle.wit.ie) to gold.
Our Tourism & Leisure Education Building will join the growing list of buildings worldwide that are lighting it up gold in support of children with cancer.
All outlets will sell gold pins (i.e. restaurants, shops, student services offices, etc).
Parents and students will be talking about their experiences with cancer and Nurse Breda from paediatrics will talk about the improvements made to the oncology paediatric rooms in UHW, and future plans.
Schedule:
2pm Forming of Gold Ribbon on Lawn outside the T&L Building, if it rains it will be located in College Hall.
2:30pm Choir performance
3pm Tea, coffee, and cakes will be served & Raffle tickets will be sold from 3pm to 3:30pm
3:05pm Welcome speech from Janet O’Neil and other speakers
3:40 pm Hanging of gold tags from the tree of hope and remembrance.
3:45pm Performance of Irish Dancing
4pm Raffle winners will be drawn
SETU Waterford, Cork Road, Waterford City, 
