After a successful awareness session on organ donation for the students (October 13, 2015), MOHAN Foundation was again invited to address the teachers of the school on organ donation on May 12, 2016. The session was coordinated and organized by Ms. Sunita Punn who supports the cause of organ donation under the guidance of Ms. Anjali Aggarwal (Principal, St. Mark’s School) who is also a passionate advocate for the cause.

Dr. Muneet Sahi, Programme Manager, Delhi-NCR took the session that began with Ms. Punn welcoming the Foundation’s representative. Ms. Veena Wahi (Vice Principal, St. Mark’s School) presented her with a beautiful flowerpot.

Dr. Muneet started the session by making people focus on the figures of accidents that take place every year in India. She then connected how majority of them end up being brain dead and further elaborated on brain death, how it is different from coma and what all organs can be donated after brain death and tissue donation after cardiac death.

The audience was both humbled and touched to know about Baby Hope (UK’s youngest organ donor) who lived just for 74 minutes and managed to be an organ donor. This brought out the fact that anyone could be an organ donor - just the wish was enough. The participants were both appalled and amused to know that some people don’t donate organs because they feel they might be born without them in the next birth if they donate. But Dr. Muneet explained that such kind of queries are very common and can only be addressed with proper sensitisation.

By the end of the session many expressed that the session was very informative and personally came to clarify doubts about organ donation. Many teachers took two- three extra donor cards to share with their family members about the life-saving cause of organ donation and also encourage them to join the cause.

The school also welcomed the idea of ‘Angels of Change’ - volunteer training program and wished to take it forward at their school.

150 teachers attended the session and 111 donor cards were picked up