Thalassaemia Awareness and Checkup Camp

7th October, 2008
Lions club international district thalassaemia awareness and check-up camp organized by Lions club Bombay, Chembur north and Panvel was held on 7th October, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. to 05:OO p.m. at assembly hall, Dr. K. M. Vasudevan Pillai College. New Panvel for unmarried students and the staff members: The programme started at 10.OOam with the felicitation of the guest of honor. After that the students present in the hall for the camp were acquainted with the information but thallassaemia. This valuable information was very new for the most of the students present there. The causes, consequences and remedies of this disease were discussed. At 11.00 am the camp got started. The volunteers took up the charge of their duties the assembly was set ready to collect the blood samples and we gave our blood samples for testing. Students along with the office and library staff members took part. This camp was available for the students till 5.00 pm. Result: None of the B. Ed students were detected with thallassaemia.

Stress Management Through Yoga and Meditation

“When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the arrival and attack of thoughts. That is to say, we shall not allow any thought, good or bad, to enter into our mind. Our mind should be absolutely silent. Then we have to go deep within; there we have to observe our real existence.” This was the main information which was given to us from the group who had come to our college. They were five people who had come together to give us information on the benefits of yoga & meditation, how to think positive and give negative energy out and how to convert negative energy into positive energy. They explained us about ‘aura’. They told us how we can reach self realization state. They said that when you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm to: mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds the cleverer we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. lf consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet. We feel that a new creation dawns inside us. We should always remember that “the affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.”

Aids Awareness 2008-09

Father Moni Mathew was the speaker for this day. The session started with the tradition of prayer. Father Mathew introduced the topic AIDS by saying, ‘feel the feeling of the felt, then only you will feel your own feelingly.’ He shared few instances from the real life of the aids patients’ and what they are going through. Booklets were distributed amongst all the students which had all the information related to the topic. He explained each in every aspect related to the topic to us. He explained the difference between HIV and AIDS, how it is caused, the patient’s health conditions and society’s attitude towards them. Father concluded the session by stating that instead of looking at these patients with hatred we should try to give care, love and support to them. Father also discussed how to effectively integrate this topic in our practice teaching and future teaching endeavors.