American Healthways Renew Sponsorship
July 7, 2004
The Nashville Kangaroos and the Australian Festival are pleased to announce that American Healthways renewed its Club Sponsorship for 2004. American Healthways, the nation's leader in providing disease and care management services, is based in Nashville, and became a club sponsor in 2003. Through the support of local sponsors, the Club runs the G'Day Mates Schools program as part of the Australian Festival. G'Day Mates is an Australian Educational and Recreation experience for school children featuring three main stations: Kanga Kids (Australian story telling and the Adventure Science Center showing the skies above Australia), Animals Down Under (exhibiting Australian animals), and USFootyKids (where the kids get to learn to play Aussie Football). In addition, each year G'Day Mates also holds an "Essay Writing Competition" that is always a highlight for the Festival.

"American Healthways is proud to give back to the local community," said Ben Leedle, CEO. "Seeing all the kids having fun and learning about Australia at the same time makes everything worthwhile. And this year, with the Junior Diabetes Research Foundation Walk-A-Thon occurring at the same time, well, there could not be a more perfect opportunity to raise the awareness of one of the leading chronic diseases affecting not just kids in our local community, but the country as a whole."

Many thanks to American Healthways for its continued support! We look forward to seeing everyone at the Festival!

For more information on G'Day Mates, e-mail Australian Festival Director - Peter Beare at director@gdaynashville.com, phone the Nashville Kangaroos at (615) 460-1401, or go to www.gdaynashville.com.