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Purple Day

Season 4 Episode 23 | Posted on: April 12, 2016

Episode Description

Each year on March 26, people around the world are encouraged to wear purple in support of epilepsy awareness, but most people don’t know that this initiative was born in a grade two classroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jennie Bovard meets the young girl who had the courage to share her story and inspire this movement.

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Episode Description

Each year on March 26, people around the world are encouraged to wear purple in support of epilepsy awareness, but most people don’t know that this initiative was born in a grade two classroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jennie Bovard meets the young girl who had the courage to share her story and inspire this movement.