** Read each calendar event then choose one to do an activity for. Share your final product with others.
**Parent and teachers, you can assign your child to do some research about one of the events as an independent project.
October 1
International Day of Older Persons (A/RES/45/106)
World Habitat Day (A/RES/40/202 A)
October 2
International Day of Non-Violence (A/RES/61/271)
October 5
World Teachers’ Day [UNESCO] (27 C/INF.7)
October 9
World Post Day (UPU/1969/Res.C.11)
October 10
World Mental Health Day [WHO]
October 11
International Day of the Girl Child (A/RES/66/170)
October 13
International Day for Disaster Reduction (A/RES/64/200)
World Migratory Bird Day [UNEP] Second Saturday
October 15
International Day of Rural Women (A/RES/62/136)
October 16
World Food Day [FAO] (A/RES/35/70)
October 17
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (A/RES/47/196)
October 20 (every five years, beginning in 2010)
World Statistics Day (A/RES/69/282)
October 24
United Nations Day (A/RES/168 (II); A/RES/2782 (XXVI))
World Development Information Day (A/RES/3038 (XXVII))
October 27
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (UNESCO 33/C/Resolution 53)
October 31
World Cities Day (A/RES/68/239)
Source: http://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/
