African Union Healthy Lifestyle Day 2025

WHAT
The African Union Healthy Lifestyle Day 2025 can be held underneath the theme: Mental Health within the Family with the slogan: Healthy Home, Healthy Workplace.
The occasion goals to advertise family-centered psychological well being and general well-being amongst AU workers and individuals, highlighting the significance of psychological wellness in each house and office settings. The program will function workshops, seminars, interactive stations, bodily actions, leisure, well being screenings, and consultations.

WHEN
10 October 2025, 09:00 – 16:00 (GMT+3)

WHERE
AU Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

CONTEXT
Africa Healthy Lifestyle Day is an annual occasion endorsed by Executive Council Decision No. EX.CL. Dec.436 (XIII) in July 2008. It aligns with the WHO Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).

This 12 months, the AU Medical Health Service Directorate (AUMHSD), in collaboration with the AU Staff Association, is dedicating the occasion to Mental and Emotional Wellness. Given the rising calls for of office duties, workers are more and more vulnerable to psychological well being challenges, which if unaddressed, can considerably affect productiveness, well-being, and institutional efficiency. African Union Healthy Lifestyle Day gives a platform to advertise preventive psychological well being practices and foster supportive household and office environments.

OBJECTIVES
The occasion goals to:

• Raise consciousness on the significance of psychological well being inside households and its affect on office wellness.
• Encourage adoption of wholesome way of life decisions that assist psychological well-being.
• Provide schooling on family-centered psychological well being practices, together with stress administration and emotional resilience.
• Foster connections amongst individuals to share experiences and sources.
• Reduce stigma round psychological sickness and promote help-seeking behaviors.
• Connect attendees with native psychological well being organizations and wellness sources.

PLANNED ACTIVITIES

• Workshops and seminars on stress administration, resilience, and coping mechanisms.
• Keynote addresses and opening remarks by AU management.
• Interactive stations together with respiratory and rest workouts, artwork remedy, and well being cubicles.
• Physical actions comparable to Zumba classes, group walks/runs, and sports activities tournaments.
• Engagement actions for sharing experiences and connecting with psychological well being sources.
• Distribution of informational supplies (flyers, brochures, and standing boards).

EXPECTED OUTCOMES

• Increased consciousness about family-centered psychological well being.
• Improved understanding of the connection between house environments and office wellness.
• Enhanced participation of workers in psychological well being companies.
• Strengthened inner wellness methods and family-inclusive assist applications.

PARTICIPANTS
The occasion will carry collectively AU workers members and their dependents, African Member State Embassies and members of the family, AU organs together with Africa CDC, regional our bodies, associate organizations, and stakeholders from the AU Staff Association and Spouse Association.

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