Attendence in Talk Programme on Chinese Acupuncture

The program was organized by our sponsoring club Rotary Club of Patan South during its general meeting. On behalf of the club, Itr. Piyush Bhopalka, Itr. Jagadishwor Tamrakar and Itr. Aarjit Adhikary attended the program which was held at Hotel Clarion. The program was by one of the acupuncturist having a clinic at Prayag Pokhari. He detailed us about Acupuncture, herbal medicine and Moxibation. He also detailed about the history and the present conditions of the traditional Chinese medicine. He told that from 1979, Acupunture was recognized as an effective method of treatment by World Health Conference, Beijing.

Volunteered in Eye Cataract Programme

A joint project for treatment of eye cataract was organized by Lions Club of Kathmandu Young Minds and Interact club of Rato Bangala. The main aim was to check the eyes of aged person in Patan area. Members of Interact club helped by volunteering and doing different activities like calling up aged citizens nearby, raising the awareness, lining up the patient and so on whereas, members of the Lions club managed the doctors and other medical equipment. The event had started at around 10am. It ended in around 2pm. More than 100 people benefitted from this program. This program was a complete success. It was carried n Patan Multiple Campus. Some patients who were detected with the disease were taken to Lions Eye Hospital for free treatment.

Volunteering at KUSOM Annual Festival

KUSOM (Kathmandu University School of Management) Annual Festival, KAF 2010 is three days’ gala events with each different day dedicated to caring, celebrating and collaborating that will reflect KUSOM’s commitment to the society as the leading management school. As the trend, the KUSOM annual festival is going to be organized from December 24th to 26th December 2010.

KAF day 1 was based on the theme – KUSOM cares. Some of the events included in this program are Traffic Awareness; Earthquake awareness; Personality Development Workshop; Art Exhibition; Health Talk Program; distributing warm clothes, Blood Donation; Free Health Camp; Scholarship; Seminar for health awareness. The venue for this day was KUSOM Premises, Pinchhe Tole, Sasatancha, Balkumari.

In the second day, KUSOM Celebrates, the concert was organized along with the food stalls and the game stalls for the purpose of celebration with the people in Kathmandu. The events for this day include: Music Concert by the bands namely Robin and the New Revolution, Equals, The Axe, Albatross, Jindabaad and Aasish; Food Stalls; Fun Stalls; Game Stalls and Door Prizes. The venue for this day was Kathmandu Fun Park, Bhrikutimandap.

They required volunteers to carry out the programmes successfully and that’s where we came in. We helped the organizers and put out fliers and posters for the concert across the city. We even managed the crowd in the concert and participated in few of the programs that were held on day 1.

Blood Donation Programme

This project is organized by sponsor Rotary club, Rotary Club Of Patan South, along with Rotaract Club of Lele and Interact Club of Rato Bangala. Since the national blood bank is short on the supply of blood, hospitals are facing a big problem. Lots of patients are waiting on a long queue to be treated due to this shortage. So to help solve this problem we decided to organize a blood donation programme.

Our sponsor club took care of the initial stages of the programme with Nepal Red Cross Society which involved creating pamphlets and organizing the camp site and the expenditure too. The news about the program was spread on national television and even on a radio talk show. Our work started from the second phase of the programme, where we awared the people about the programme and the importance and benefits of donating blood. On the first day, after school, we visited every bank, mall, department store, pharmacy or any type of shop we came across on both lanes from Pulchowk to Jawalakhel Chowk and distributed pamphlets and humbly requested the locals to donate blood. On the next day we went from Jawalakhel chowk to the end of Kumaripati. We went to more than a hundred shops which covered about 2 km of road.

The donation programme was held on the 18^th of December. Luckily for us there was a concert and an education fair held near to the camp site so there was a big crowd. We had a total of 104 donors that day with many rejections. So we can term this programme a success.

Muffler Donation Project

This is a joint project done with the Interact Club of Pashupati in collaboration with Apanga Sewa Samaj(Society for the disabled) to mark the World Disabled Day. The society provided the differently-abled kids shelter and even provided education up to 12^th grade. We were inspired by the work the organization had achieved in a few years. Thus we decided to do this project to help the organization.

                Our main objective of this project was to distribute mufflers to all individuals, free of cost, that were protected by the society, since winter was closing in. We played with them, and even organized a small programme; where we sang, read out poems, etc. We even distributed fruits and chocolates. Moreover, we had a wonderful time with them as well as with the Interactors of IC Pashupati. This project really helped us to build fellowship between different interact members.

Attendence in Talk Programme on HIV/ AIDS

The programme was organized by Interact Club of Pashupati during their general meeting on 4th December 2010. On behalf of our club, 18 members attended the talk Programme by Mr. Sushil Khatri who briefed us all about the conditions of HIV/AIDS in our country and also gave the view of Nepalese people towards the people having AIDS. He also answered all the impatient questions put up by the people present in the meeting. The programme lasted for about 2 hours and a lot of knowledge had been gained.