Organ Donation Awareness Stall at PULSE 2012, AIIMS, Delhi

Updated on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
  • "PULSE", the biggest socio-cultural, literary & sports festival in South East Asia was organized by AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) Students' Union in the AIIMS campus, New Delhi from September 16 - 22, 2012. More than 3000 students of 600 colleges across India and South East Asia took part in this festival. Around 200 events (rock night, pop night, laughter night, fashion show, quiz, art, street play etc) were organized, spread over a period of one week.

     

    MOHAN Foundation's (MF) team put up an awareness stall in the festival showcasing our cause, "Gift a life, Donate Organs". The stall was manned by the representatives of MOHAN Foundation every day. We also took part in various activities like the street play, sketching and Grade one art, organized on different days. The prizes for two of these events were sponsored by Medanta- Medicity in Gurgaon.

     

    Street play (19.9.2012):  A street play to promote the cause of organ donation was organized in partnership with Miles Theatre Group (professional actors) during the festival.  The play was very well presented and showcased the key message quite effectively.

     

    Sketching (20.9.2012):  About 28 participant's mainly medical and non medical undergraduates took part in this event. A brief introduction about MOHAN Foundation was given to the participants .They were given 2 hours time to draw on the topic, "Gift a Life, Donate Organs". The best three entries (judged by the Foundation and Medanta representatives) were awarded cash prizes.

     

    Grade One Art (22.09.2012): 25 students, all medical undergraduates participated in this competition. They were made to use crayons, pencil colours as the main material for grade one art.  Lot of fresh ideas along with tag lines like "Your organs deserve a better after life", "Our country doesn't need super heroes, it needs YOU" came up to showcase the cause of organ donation during the event. Since there were many good entries, the

    organizing committee and the MF representative decided to add one consolation prize apart from the 3 main prizes.

     

    The posters developed during sketching and grade one art are with MOHAN Foundation, who would look at opportunities to use them for campaigning the cause on organ donation.



    Source-Dr. Muneet Sahi & Ms. Manisha Gupta
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