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Dyslexia Awareness Week 2025
Monday 6 October – Sunday 12 October

Since 2023, during the month of October, we’ve invited communities across Aotearoa to illuminate landmarks, buildings, and monuments in aqua blue—a bright, hopeful colour that symbolises awareness, understanding, and support for individuals with dyslexia.

In 2025, Dyslexia Awareness Week will run from Monday 6 October to Sunday 12 October, and once again, we would love to include as many monuments and sites as possible in this year’s nationwide display.

Our aim is to:

• Raise awareness about what dyslexia is and how it affects individuals

• Show visible support to those with dyslexia and their whānau

• Encourage inclusive education and workplaces through open conversation

• Break down stigma and create a more informed, compassionate community

In 2024, locations such as New Brighton Pier (Christchurch), the Nelson Clock Tower, Whanganui Opera House, and Tauranga’s Wharf St joined us. Other proud participants included Bay Fitness (Collingwood), Tokirima School, Richmond Sundial Square, several schools in Whanganui, and Whanganui Pak’nSave. Mike Buchanan Plumbing even lit up its building in aqua and flew a Dyslexia Awareness flag for the entire month. These actions created a powerful show of unity across the motu.

For 2025, our passionate team of advocates from Love Literacy Mount Maunganui, Freedom Literacy, Pānui me te tuhi, Dot to Dot Literacy, Just Literacy, and Nicky Collins (RLit – Tawhero School) is working hard to expand the movement even further. We are also proudly supported by The DEB – Dyslexia Evidence Based.

Please get behind us and help “Light It Up Aqua” for Dyslexia Awareness Week 2025.