Design For Giving Design For Giving

ByBy Trivandrum International SchoolTrivandrum International School

• “Hope springs from every impossible situation given a few drops of the milk of human kindness”

Our Team Our Team

• P.S.Gokulnath• Vineet John Samuel• Mohammad Aquib Ajeem• Shyam Sunder• K.Govind Nair

Teacher In Charge : Ms. Krishnapriya.V

Aquib, Vineet, Govind, Gokul, Shyam

Day 1-IMAGINEDay 1-IMAGINE

• Today we were briefed about the competition by Ms.Krishnapriya. We thought it was time to help the people around us and make a change in the world. It was time we stepped out of our comfy shells and help the suffering and needy. So we put our thinking caps on and started to think of ideas to put the mission ahead of us into practice.

In the end we came up with In the end we came up with these ideasthese ideas

1) Run a street play at school to show how the people were suffering and promote the idea of helping them.

2) Go to the biggest school in city and do the street play there.

3) Write multiple articles and publish in news papers and online.

4) Write a short monthly paper about the poor and needy for two classes each month.

5) Take all the classes to a palliative care centre 6) After doing this we should show a slide show of our

efforts in our seminar hall. In the end, we narrowed down to the ideas marked and also

decided to expand on the ideas

Day 2-FEELDay 2-FEEL

• After expanding on our ideas, we joined hands with the social service group of our school. Together we spread awareness and the need for service. We could pool in rice and other materials for helping the cancer patients. As a first step we decided to go to the palliative care centre with rice, milk powder, clothes and oats. So along with other students of our class, we departed on the next day with about 600 kg of rice collected from students and teachers of our school and took it to the centre.

Day 3-DODay 3-DO• After this we reviewed our trip and this is an

article on what we did: Trip to the local palliative centre Chavara

The day started with us going to all the classes and collecting rice . In all we collected about 600 kgs of rice. We sat in the bus and left .Luckily for us it was a nice day and all we did on the bus was talk , sing and look out of the window. Then finally our bus trundled to a stop in front of the centre. We all got off and seated ourselves in chairs.

At the centre……

We first interviewed an old man. When the man came in he looked well and good but we did not know half the story yet. The man was 74 years old and had 7 children. We learned he was suffering from stomach cancer. He said he hated it at the centre missed his family. He said the food was okay because he usually got rice.

We then went to meet another patient. She was very old and was also suffering from cancer. But she quite contrastingly said that she loved it here and considered to be just like any other person. She said she was happy that her family is doing well. Her daughters are teachers who teach at multiple schools and send her money every month.

• The doctor then took us to another patient .She was suffering from a type of throat cancer and she was also happy to meet and talk with us.

Before we left the centre we were blessed by the patients. Inside the bus all of us were engrossed in our own thoughts. We have never seen pain and distress before, but still the positive attitude of the patients amazed us .we felt we owe much more to the society.

Yes, we started as mere contestants but for us this competition was an eye opener, a true learning experience.

Day 4-DODay 4-DO

• We made lots of posters and displayed at various corners of our school to foster the feeling of caring and giving.

Day 5- DODay 5- DO

• Today Dr. Cherian Koshy’s (Head,Palliative Care, Regional Cancer Center ,Trivandrum) visit was arranged to spread awareness about palliative care in our school . He showed us a wonderful slideshow and he explained properly how Paliiative care unit works and their motto and finally some cases about patients.

LISTEN ,LISTEN AND LISTENLISTEN ,LISTEN AND LISTEN

• He instilled in us a feeling of giving care and solace to people suffering from pain. In a nutshell we understood palliative care means using science and technology coupled with unconditional love.

Who is important in palliative care-the Who is important in palliative care-the doctor, nurse ???doctor, nurse ???

• When a patient is needed to be administered morphine a doctor is required

• Sometimes it is just to listen ,listen and listen to him to give him comfort .Even a student may help in this situation.

• Thus the palliative care is a team effort by doctors ,volunteers, nurses ,students etc.

Day6-DODay6-DO

• We went to RCC in Trivandrum today. We saw many people suffering from cancer and we felt very sad. Tears brimmed in our eyes. We listened to speeches by the best doctors in cancer treatment. We visited the pediatric ward where we interacted with tiny tots undergoing chemotherapy. We gave them toys and books.

Sorry no photos!!Sorry no photos!!

• We had cameras in hand but did not feel like clicking photos of small children in chemotherapy wards.

DAY 7-Let us nowDAY 7-Let us now SHARE….. SHARE…..

• We found out…

• Palliative care is still in its infancy.

• Any individual is capable of contributing.

• Solace may be in the form of money, touch, presence,medicine etc

• Palliative care seeks• A LOW TECH ,HIGH TOUCH APPROACH

• AT IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE WITH ADVANCED LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS

Final question to you???Final question to you???

• Is mercy killing an answer to pain eradication??• ‘If you cannot tolerate pain then we will make

arrangements to kill you' Do you agree??• Is this humanism in the 21st century??• If your answer is NO to the above three

questions, then support -• ‘PAIN AND PALLIATIVE CARE’ movement

• Give them a hand to put light into their life.

• It restores a certain dignity to their tormented life, relieving their devastating agony, making their end-of-life experience not the nightmare it usually is.

OCT-10th,2009OCT-10th,2009

• We participated in the World Palliative Day celebrations held in the Regional Cancer Center,Trivandrum

‘‘May you be wrapped in tenderness, you my May you be wrapped in tenderness, you my brother, as in a cloak’brother, as in a cloak’

-The Quran-The Quran

• WE bow down to all the medicos and volunteers of the pain and Palliative care movement in the world.

• Our journey does not end here we have just begun……..