The Bluey Day Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 and calls upon national Police

Police

The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

, Ambulance, Fire and Emergency

Emergency service

Emergency services are organizations which ensure public safety and health by addressing different emergencies. Some agencies exist solely for addressing certain types of emergencies whilst others deal with ad hoc emergencies as part of their normal responsibilities...

 Services as well as the general community to raise funds to support children with cancer

Cancer

Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

 and other serious illnesses.

The Bluey Day Foundation is the original head shaving

Head shaving

Head shaving is the practice of shaving the hair from a person's head. At different times and places people have shaved their heads for very diverse reasons: practical, religious, cultural, or aesthetic—so a shaven head has widely varying connotations depending on the context.-Early...

 fundraiser where participants from various emergency and defence

Defense (military)

Defense has several uses in the sphere of military application.Personal defense implies measures taken by individual soldiers in protecting themselves whether by use of protective materials such as armor, or field construction of trenches or a bunker, or by using weapons that prevent the enemy...

 services and the community raise funds in many ways; from obtaining sponsorship from local businesses and communities, selling merchandise as well as organising special functions.

Since Karl David founded Bluey Day Foundation in 1995, it has spread from a few police members in Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

 to Emergency Services members from all over Australia raising over A$

Australian dollar

The Australian dollar is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu...

20 million, as well as in Canada and America.

The chair of the Bluey Day Foundation is Neil Williamson.

Bluey Day

Bluey Day is held annually in August and is one of the major fundraising campaigns where the emergency services and community come together to raise funds and shave their heads or go blue by colouring their hair or wearing something blue. Participants also have been known to colour their hair red, green and orange to represent their support from their own particular service.

Adopt-A-Bluey

The 2009 Adopt-A-Bluey schools program is a fun way for schools to help 'Bluey' the blue healer raise awareness for kids with cancer and other illnesses.

Each student in the class looks after their adopted Bluey and take turns to introduce the dog to their friends and family.