{"id":13337,"date":"2019-04-12T15:47:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T05:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neighbourday.org\/?p=13337"},"modified":"2021-10-27T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T03:30:48","slug":"and-that-was-neighbour-day-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.relationships.org.au\/and-that-was-neighbour-day-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"And that was Neighbour Day 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Sam Robinson, Neighbour Day Campaign Manager<\/p>\n
It was a huge year for Neighbour Day in 2019, with communities from all corners of Australia participating in variety of neighbourly events, from garage sales to street libraries to barbeques, parties, and even street art installations.<\/p>\n
The theme for Neighbour Day this year was:\u00a0Loneliness: what neighbours can do to create connections<\/em>\u00a0and Australia has done a fantastic job of doing just that. We would like to say thank you to all our Very Neighbourly Organisations and our amazing ambassadors, who helped to make Neighbour Day a success.<\/p>\n I\u2019d like to share with you some of the highlights of this year\u2019s Neighbour Day.<\/p>\n One of Neighbour Day\u2019s Very Neighbourly Organisations, R U OK? caught up with their ambassador and Ramsay Street favourite, Rob Mills, for Neighbour Day this year. Rob suggests that being neighbourly might seem daunting for some of us, but a small gesture can go a long way.<\/p>\n He says creating strong connections is as simple as \u201cbeing community minded. Thinking of others, and being a good person.\u201d<\/p>\n Dementia Australia and their ambassador, Takaya Honda, also used Neighbour Day to shine a light on the loneliness suffered by people living with dementia, who often become socially isolated as a result of their illness.<\/p>\nAustralia\u2019s most well-known Neighbours get behind Neighbour Day<\/h3>\n