CANCER DAY

AMSA UPH's WORLD CANCER DAY 2012

Started with an idea from Internal’s division of AMSA UPH, all members of AMSA UPH should be active members and learn how to organize an event and so all members were divided into 3 teams and each team was given a different theme. These groups then divided into World Cancer Day, Tuberculosis Day or Earth & Health Day.

On 4^th February, World Cancer Day was marked to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. First, group 1 planned to hold this event on 17^th February 2012 while we will combine cancer day with valentine day. However, there’s another event on so this event was moved to 25^th February 2012.

In this opportunity, group 1 which are consist 20 members with 3 additional seats for another AMSA UPH members were celebrated this event on YKI (Yayasan Kanker Indonesia) at Lebak Bulus. In this event, there are cancer patient, cancer survivor and also the committee of YKI. Not only them, we also cooperated with the committee so all patients and survivors were brought one of their closest person to join this event.

We started this event with pray, then continued with first session which were consist of designed patchwork by each survivors and patients and made valentines card by their closest person. While they made their handmade, the committee from AMSA UPH joined them and so they could shared some of their struggle and their fights into this cancer.

This event was continued with second session which was decorated chiffon cake by survivor, patients and their closest person while they were divided into 3 small groups first. After finished their decoration, they were asked to write some wishes which was in our plan will be hanged on halogens balloons. Unfortunately, these halogens balloons could not afford the heaviness of all wishing cards so we burnt these wishing cards as a symbolic that this wishes already sent to God.

After finished all the main session, we arrived at the closing session which was handover valentine cards from the patients and survivors’ closest person to patients and survivor. Because of not all patients and survivors brought their closest person, the committee already made some cards for them so everyone still got valentine card. We also share all cakes that had been decorated before and took pictures of them.

 Overall, we can conclude that this event was run smoothly even though we only had a really short time to prepare this event and this is the first event conducted by some members. We learn lot of things from them like their fighting spirit and we could also give some care and concern for them. We hope this event will be one of the most memorable event for them like for us.

-VIVA AMSA UPH-