page_title: Wristband
section_title: Awareness wristbands
hierarchical_section_title: Wristband / Types of wristbands / Awareness wristbands
caption_attribution_description: English: Absolutepunk's leukemia wristband.
context_page_description: A wristband is a piece of clothing, plastic, metal or other material that is worn around the wrist of a person. There are different types of wristband such as those on watches and on the ends of the sleeves of a piece of clothing. Other types are the awareness bands and security bands used for music concerts and school dances.
context_section_description: Charities and awareness organizations often make wristbands that are sold to people so that the money can help people who are sick or need other help, and to help other people learn about their charity or awareness organization. Some bands are those made for; Make Poverty History, Anti-bullying, disease awareness charities and to help people learn about religions (such as the Jesus Loves Me band). These bands are often made of plastic or silicone. The making of some of these bands has been in the news as some were made in sweatshops in China and poor countries. This is said to be very bad because these wristbands are made to help people and charities and by being made in these sweatshops they have hurt the people making them because these places are often not safe, and the people working in them do not get paid much money for work they do.
  Awareness wristbands were first started by the Lance Armstrong charity Livestrong (see Other websites) in 2003.
  Some of these wristbands are copied by criminals and sold to people without the money going to the organization they are trying to help.
caption: An awareness wristband
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