On May 08, 2014 an awareness session on organ donation and transplantation was conducted at Yatra.com by MOHAN Foundation, Delhi-NCR in association with Organ Receiving and Giving Awareness Network (ORGAN) India - an initiative of The Parashar Foundation.

 

Yatra.com is an Indian online travel agency and a travel search engine based in Gurgaon, Haryana, founded by Dhruv Shringi, Manish Amin and Sabina Chopra in August 2006. In April 2012, it was the second largest online travel website in India, with 30 per cent share of the Rupees 370 billion (US$6.2 billion) market for all online travel-related transactions. It also launched a "holiday-cum-shopping card" with State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest bank.

 

The talk was initiated by Ms, Sunayana Arora, ORGAN India in coordination with Amit Arora, Manager- Human Resource. The session was conducted by Ms. Pallavi Kumar, Executive Director, MOHAN Foundation, Delhi-NCR.

 

In her presentation Pallavi introduced the Foundation as well as the partnership with ORGAN India to strengthen efforts to create more awareness. She helped the group understand the intricacies of organ donation and brain death. She also shared the dismal statistics with regard to organ donation in the country and wished there was more involvement of the Government to strengthen the deceased organ donation programme in the country and emphasized on how each person can proactively spread the word to promote the cause.

 

The film on Brain Death, jointly developed by ORGAN India and MOHAN Foundation was also screened.

 

Around 20 people attended the talk and 3 of them picked up the donor card. A few donor cards were left with Mr. Arora in case anyone wanted to take the card after discussing with the family.