S.Niroshan
22.08.2012
Post no 2

‘I am not a teacher, but an awakener’

A wonderful quote came from one of a famous American poet Robert frost’s mind…  of course it’s giving little bit energy when hearing the word awakener.. Especially to societies which desperately need that...it’s my fortunate I got a great chance to do that…!!

It was our second week of the awesome appointment… provides different and new experience in our medical career…among those experiences; this is a special one.’ Awakening’..!! Yes, officially known as health educational program.

We were ready to conduct a health educational program to ‘Shilpa children development centre’ situated in narahenpitiya...Prior to go there we all divided into small groups and prepared ourselves with different topics to deliver them.so, in our group four of us supposed to talk about ‘first aid management’ to a group of girls with the age group 16 & 17..

So, as for our task we prepared with our topic with collecting newly updated information from internet regarding basic first aid management in a situation such…cuts and wounds,burn,choking,subluxuation of teeth,faint,snakebite,animal bite(dog & cat) and fever..

So, once we reach there...They warmly welcome us and also they were ready to obtain what we are going to deliver... then we start with introducing ourselves... Asked information about what they already knew about first aid...Their experiences whenever they faced a situation above mentioned...Then we deliver the correct methods, precations...ect with live demonstration...Include jokes, laughs... Questions, doubts clarification..went as an interacting manner such an interesting way we tried to awake them adequately regard the first aid managements what we concerned..

Simply at the end of our task within the time given, we were so happy when we saw their bright eyes with some kind of a happy they show that they enjoy the time with us and got something valuable from us…its more than enough for us make our mind so happy other than the word they said “thank you so much…”