The Chennai Mission Association of Christ The King Church, Poonamallee, Chennai have organised a continuous awareness program on organ donation for their member churches and for their congregation. They invited MOHAN Foundation to deliver the first talk on 8th June 2014.
The programme started with a welcome speech given by Mr. Sebastin, member of the parish, Ayynavaram, Chennai. Following that Ms. S. Kavitha, Marketing Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation delivered a talk on Organ Donation. A motivational movie was screened at the start of the session.
The talk concentrated to following topics: Concepts of Organ Donation, Types of Donors, Organs that can be donated after natural and brain death, Importance of Donor Card, Statistics of organ donation for Tamilnadu and Kerala, Toll free helpline number, Tamilnadu and Kerala organ registry.
She ended her talk by sharing few real stories, by which the whole group was moved. After that a recipient speech was also screened to understand the importance of Organ Donation.
Mr. Sebastin announced that the next awareness session will be held at St. Joseph Church, Perambur on 29.06.2014. Nearly 50 people attended the session and all promised to take this message home and join hands for noble cause.