Lend a hand?

Most of this blog comes from Stop CMV...there is a bit more at the bottom from me :)

Recently, the month of June was designated as National Congenital CMV Awareness Month with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In honor of this month, Stop CMV is planning an ambitious public awareness campaign surrounding congenital CMV.

The focus of this campaign will be to collect as many photographs possible of people with "Stop CMV" written on their hand. Photos can be taken in any location, within any context, and in any style but should include "Stop CMV" written on the palm of a hand somewhere in the image.

We are looking forward to this campaign as an opportunity to leverage our CMV Action Network and explore the power of that network. While we are looking for a large quantity of images, we are also encouraging our members and supporters to leverage the power of their own personal network. We are hoping to engage several segments of the public during this campaign to mobilize this message into various groups, subcultures, geographic locations, etc.

Consider leveraging your personal network to request images of people within the following categories:

• Regional - cities, beaches, mountains, landmarks, other countries, etc.
• Celebrity - musicians, athletes, actors, DJs, artists, politicians, notable figures, etc.
• Lifestyle - hobbies, careers, sports, outdoors, subcultures, interest groups, etc.

These photos can be uploaded to the Stop CMV website on or before May 15th and will find their place on our awareness wall! From here, visitors to the site during National Congenital CMV Awareness Month will be able to post their images and vote for their favorite image. The image receiving the most votes will become the new face (and hand) of Stop CMV and will be featured in web, print, and broadcast awareness campaigns for Stop CMV!

With CMV prevention measures rarely communicated to women, Stop CMV wants to increase the public profile of congenital CMV to save tens of thousands of babies each year from death and disability! You can help us by joining your hand with ours! We look forward to your participation in this campaign and look to this as a major opportunity to engage the public in congenital CMV awareness!

Did you get all that? Basically, we need pictures of hands with the words Stop CMV on them. Anyone want to take some pictures of Kaity Bug's hands for me? I'm really not the greatest photographer there is. Or, do you know someone famous? Or important? Or just really good looking? Take their picture!


See--everybody's doing it!