MOHAN Foundation’s Organ Donation Ambassadors training program is comprised of three modules: 

• Module 1: 4-hour online learning - Gift of Life Course
• Module 2: 3-hour virtual interaction with experts, understanding communication and practices of presentations 
• Module 3: Public awareness activities by the Ambassadors

There were 23 participants who attended the Module 2 part of the training held on 14^th July 2021. Students from schools, colleges, nurses, and members of “8 Lives Matter” group of Hubballi attended the interactions. A 7^th grade school student was also one of the participants, making him the youngest ambassador the Foundation has trained.    

Participants’ introduction brought out different aspects of their lives and their motivation to join the Ambassador Training. A few of them had experienced personal losses due to organ failure. 

This was followed by feedback sharing for Module 1 and questions from it. Dr. Sunil Shroff – Managing Trustee, MOHAN Foundation, Ms. Jaya Jairam, Dr. Muneet Kaur Sahi, and Dr. Bhanu Prakash of MOHAN Foundation were the experts who answered the questions. The discussions were around the ethics of donation, organ allocation systems, need for donation, need and process for counselling, paediatric donation, outcomes and life quality of a recipient and how this concept can be popularised.

The next session was the Gratitude and Communication workshop conducted by Dr. Muneet Kaur Sahi. The participants were asked to place themselves in the shoes of an organ recipient. Dr. Sahi gave tips on how to express gratitude and communicate about the value of the second chance at life they have received. Some of the letters written by the participants expressing gratitude to the donor family were read out. Some participants gave feedback that this exercise was an eyeopener. 

Using an illustrative presentation, the different modes of taking the subject of organ donation to the community were explained by Dr. Hemal Kanvinde. The participants were exposed to creative ways of explaining the noble cause. In the next segment, Dr. Muneet Kaur Sahi gave tips on how to prepare a presentation and effectively present it to an audience. She also gave glimpse of her presentation.  

In the last feedback segment, the participants chose to deliver awareness talks and needed more assistance from MOHAN Foundation to go ahead with their initiatives.