This document summarizes a school team's participation in a design competition to help those in need. Over several days, the team brainstormed ideas, collected donations, visited a palliative care center, spread awareness through posters, and learned about palliative care from an expert. They saw how palliative care provides comfort through a low-tech, high-touch approach to improve the lives of those with serious illnesses. The team realized anyone can contribute to palliative care through donations, presence or compassion.

1. Design For Giving
By
Trivandrum International School

2. • “Hope springs from every impossible
situation given a few drops of the milk of
human kindness”

3. Our Team
• P.S.Gokulnath
• Vineet John Samuel
• Mohammad Aquib Ajeem
• Shyam Sunder
• K.Govind Nair
Teacher In Charge : Ms. Krishnapriya.V

4. Aquib, Vineet, Govind, Gokul, Shyam

5. Day 1-IMAGINE
• Today we were briefed about the competition by
Ms.Krishnapriya. We thought it was time to help the
people around us and make a change in the world. It
was time we stepped out of our comfy shells and
help the suffering and needy. So we put our thinking
caps on and started to think of ideas to put the
mission ahead of us into practice.

6. In the end we came up with
these ideas
1) Run a street play at school to show how the people were
suffering and promote the idea of helping them.
2) Go to the biggest school in city and do the street play
there.
4) Write multiple articles and publish in news papers and
online.
6) Write a short monthly paper about the poor and needy for
two classes each month.
7) Take all the classes to a palliative care centre
8) After doing this we should show a slide show of our
efforts in our seminar hall.
In the end, we narrowed down to the ideas marked and also
decided to expand on the ideas

7. Day 2-FEEL
• After expanding on our ideas, we joined hands
with the social service group of our school.
Together we spread awareness and the need for
service. We could pool in rice and other
materials for helping the cancer patients. As a
first step we decided to go to the palliative care
centre with rice, milk powder, clothes and oats.
So along with other students of our class, we
departed on the next day with about 600 kg of
rice collected from students and teachers of our
school and took it to the centre.

9. Day 3-DO
• After this we reviewed our trip and this is an
article on what we did:
Trip to the local palliative centre Chavara
The day started with us going to all the classes
and collecting rice . In all we collected about 600
kgs of rice. We sat in the bus and left .Luckily for
us it was a nice day and all we did on the bus was
talk , sing and look out of the window. Then
finally our bus trundled to a stop in front of the
centre. We all got off and seated ourselves in
chairs.

11. At the centre……
We first interviewed an old man. When the
man came in he looked well and good but
we did not know half the story yet. The
man was 74 years old and had 7 children.
We learned he was suffering from
stomach cancer. He said he hated it at the
centre missed his family. He said the food
was okay because he usually got rice.

13. We then went to meet another patient. She was very
old and was also suffering from cancer. But she
quite contrastingly said that she loved it here and
considered to be just like any other person. She
said she was happy that her family is doing well.
Her daughters are teachers who teach at multiple
schools and send her money every month.
• The doctor then took us to another patient .She
was suffering from a type of throat cancer and she
was also happy to meet and talk with us.

16. Before we left the centre we were blessed by
the patients. Inside the bus all of us were
engrossed in our own thoughts. We have
never seen pain and distress before, but still
the positive attitude of the patients amazed
us .we felt we owe much more to the society.

17. Yes, we started as mere contestants but for us this
competition was an eye opener, a true learning
experience.

18. Day 4-DO
• We made lots of posters and displayed at various
corners of our school to foster the feeling of caring
and giving.

22. Day 5- DO
• Today Dr. Cherian Koshy’s
(Head,Palliative Care, Regional Cancer
Center ,Trivandrum) visit was arranged
to spread awareness about palliative
care in our school . He showed us a
wonderful slideshow and he explained
properly how Paliiative care unit works
and their motto and finally some cases
about patients.

25. LISTEN ,LISTEN AND LISTEN
• He instilled in us a feeling of giving care and
solace to people suffering from pain. In a
nutshell we understood palliative care means
using science and technology coupled with
unconditional love.

26. Who is important in palliative care-the
doctor, nurse ???
• When a patient is needed to be administered
morphine a doctor is required
• Sometimes it is just to listen ,listen and listen to
him to give him comfort .Even a student may
help in this situation.
• Thus the palliative care is a team effort by
doctors ,volunteers, nurses ,students etc.

27. Day6-DO
• We went to RCC in Trivandrum today. We
saw many people suffering from cancer and
we felt very sad. Tears brimmed in our eyes.
We listened to speeches by the best doctors
in cancer treatment. We visited the pediatric
ward where we interacted with tiny tots
undergoing chemotherapy. We gave them
toys and books.

28. Sorry no photos!!
• We had cameras in hand but did not feel
like clicking photos of small children in
chemotherapy wards.

29. DAY 7-Let us now
SHARE…..
• We found out…
• Palliative care is still in its infancy.
• Any individual is capable of contributing.
• Solace may be in the form of money,
touch, presence,medicine etc

30. • Palliative care seeks
• A LOW TECH ,HIGH TOUCH APPROACH
• AT IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE
WITH ADVANCED LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS

31. Final question to you???
• Is mercy killing an answer to pain eradication??
• ‘If you cannot tolerate pain then we will make
arrangements to kill you' Do you agree??
• Is this humanism in the 21st century??
• If your answer is NO to the above three
questions, then support -
• ‘PAIN AND PALLIATIVE CARE’ movement

32. • Give them a hand to put light into their life.
• It restores a certain dignity to their
tormented life, relieving their devastating
agony, making their end-of-life experience
not the nightmare it usually is.

33. OCT-10th,2009
• We participated in the World Palliative Day
celebrations held in the Regional Cancer
Center,Trivandrum

35. ‘May you be wrapped in tenderness, you my
brother, as in a cloak’
-The Quran
• WE bow down to all the medicos and
volunteers of the pain and Palliative care
movement in the world.
• Our journey does not end here we have just
begun……..