ACTIVITIES

Health Awareness Session

Place: Wellington Day Centre

Date: Wednesday 27^th Februaey`13

Topic: Diabetes and Complications

It is encouraging that the Health Awareness Sessions are well received by the participants. Most of the participants have been really excited to share their lives` experiences and acquire new informations for making their lives more healthy and enjoyable.

Mr RajuMohanThampi, fecilitator of the Health Awareness Sessions has encouraged the participants to share their experiences or sing a song or to share jokes or humour at the Session. It was very interesting because some of the participants sang songs and others shared jokes and all of the participants laughed and enjoyed themselves.

Mr Thampi has invited the attention of the participants and introduced the subject,

 ` Diabetes and Complications`. The participant’s responses were very good. All most all of them have asked different questions and Mr Thampi answered and cleared their queries effectively. All participants commented that the Session was very effective and they could understand lot more things about the Complications of Diabetes. About thirty participants have attended the Health Awareness Session on the day. At the end of the session, there was food and all participants have enjoyed the food as well.

Health Awareness Session

Place: Wellington Day centre

Date: Wednesday 13^th February`13

Topic: Diabetes (What is Diabetes? What are the Symptoms?)

Health Awareness and Healthy life style is inevitable in the present day of life. More number of people have been diagnosed as Diabetic and associated diseases. There are many people who are not diagnosed, but having Diabetes. It is very useful for everybody to get more informations about Diabetes and symptoms, in order to understand themselves or help others who have the conditions.

Diabetes Community Champion Mr RajuMohanThampi has facilitated the Diabetes Awareness Talk. He has used the DiabetesUK presentation about Diabetes, its symptoms. Mr Thampi has used simple illustrations of a key to make understand, what is Diabetes and all participants have understood what is Diabetes, how many types of Diabetes and it`s symptoms. Some participants were excited to know about Diabetes because some of them are Diabetic and others have someone in the family diagnosed as Diabetic. So it was important for them to make clear understanding about Diabetes.

After presenting the modules, the participants were given opportunity to share their queries and group discussion. All participants were happy appreciated the presentation. Most of the participants said that they would invite their friends to the next Health Awareness Sessions.

At the end of the session food was served to all participants. The session was well accepted by the participants.