The HAEi team is limbering up for what we hope will be another record-breaking year for activities, awareness, and community on hae day :-) 16 May.

All the features you know are back for 2026, with the addition of a dedicated HAEi team member to support Member Organizations with any aspect of activities you might be planning.

Read on for the recap and how to get involved.

#active4HAE activity challenge in purple
We encourage everyone to participate in physical and wellbeing activities and to use purple to show support. You can wear purple clothing or accessories, use purple equipment, spot purple in your activity environment, or get creative with anything purple during your activity!

Set a new Personal Activity Goal in your profile
If you have a profile, you can set a new 2026 personal target for the number of activities you want to complete during the challenge. Each time you log an activity, it counts towards your goal and helps you stay consistent. Your profile’s new totalizer feature shows your progress – and you earn a new badge once you’ve hit your target!

Share your Insta story with our stickers
Use our stickers when you share your hae day :-) or #active4HAE pictures in an Instagram story. Search for HAEi when creating your story to find and add the campaign GIFs.

And more …
As always, in your profile, you can earn badges by logging activities each week of the challenge, and choose to support your Member Organization team, HAEi, or Youngsters. Each activity logged will contribute to your country’s total; anyone can add photos to our gallery. You can download #active4HAE image assets from our website to use in photos you share.

Are you an MO and need help with your hae day :-) plans?
Natasha Jovanovska Popovska is HAEi’s Coordinator, Program Implementation and Engagement, and hae day :-) is one of HAEi’s programs in her remit. Natasha can help MOs in planning, implementing, and promoting their hae day :-) activities to help ensure their efforts have maximum impact. Read more about Natasha’s new role and how to contact her here.

When you have your activity planned, we’d love to share it more widely with our HAE Community via our hae day :-) events calendar.

Head to haeday.org to find out more!

Join the challenge and help us travel more than four times around the world and beat last year’s total!