
24-Hour Global Kangaroo-a-thon on World Prematurity Day (Nov. 17, 2022 your local time zone)
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This year, the theme of World Prematurity Day is Kangaroo Care. Let's work together and have a friendly global competition and see how many hours of kangaroo care we can do together in one day (November 17, your local hour)
Easy registration! Place this item and checkout to receive more information, resources, and a project plan that will make participation easy.
Not sure if you have time or resources to make it work? Register, look at the plan, and then decide if your team participates and submit your results to be counted on November 17th.
Let's do this!
Kangaroo Care Day hosts the
24-hour Global Kangaroo-a-thon on World Prematurity Day!
Registration now closes on November 16th, 2022

REGISTER YOUR TEAM:
COST:
WHAT RESULTS DOES EACH TEAM SUBMIT?
Since we have different sizes of units, we will ask for four numbers from every team, and we will calculate the rest:
- TEAM SIZE: Number of babies in the team or census
- SESSIONS DURATION: Total duration of kangaroo care in minutes
- NUMBER OF SESSIONS: Total number of kangaroo care sessions
- BABIES HELD: Number of babies held in kangaroo care
WHO WINS? :
- Kangaroo Care CHAMPIONS: The highest Team Average of KC (SESSIONS DURATION divided by TEAM SIZE)
- Longest sessions: SESSIONS DURATION divided by BABIES HELD
- Most babies held: BABIES HELD divided by TEAM SIZE
- Number of Teams
- Total Babies Participating: Add TEAM SIZE
- Duration of Kangaroo Care: add SESSIONS DURATION
- Total Number of Sessions: Add all NUMBER OF SESSIONS
- Total Babies held in Kangaroo Care: Add BABIES HELD
RESULTS:
PRIZES:
Every team will receive a participation certificate via email, giving fabulous bragging rights.
The winners will be featured everywhere we announce the result on this website, social media, our newsletter, and the KMC conference in Madrid; they will receive a certificate. We are asking for prizes from different sources so that we will update this as appropriate.

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Nurtured by Design is donating The Zaky® ROO to every team that submits the results between Nov. 17 and 19th. Shipping is not included. |
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