22 July 2019 Monday
Organ donation awareness raised
The final year students of Istanbul Gelisim University Public Relations and Advertising Department conducted “ One Organ One Life” project to raise people’s awareness of organ donation issue.
As a part of the project, students organized a psychodrama activity with the participation of psychodramaturg Odise Vuçinas.
Firstly, the participants were asked to form groups of five people. Members of each group specified their opinion on the issue as positive attitude to organ donation, those who don’t want to donate their organs and those who are in two minds about it.
The member of every group discussed the opinion in the same group. Later the members of the groups mingled and tried to persuade the other students with different opinions. As the second stage of the activity a person with negative attitude on the issue was inited to the stage.
Psychodramaturg Odise Vuçinas asked the invited person to list the reasons for negative attitude and participants to categorize the reasons according to fear relation. One of the participants who managed to face the fear of organ donation mentioned that he could donate his organs in case it was necessary because saving a life was very important.
As the last stage of the activity, Vuçinas motivated the participants to mingle and give the baloon with a heart picture to somebody. Later they were supposed to ask a person with a baloon about the ideas before and after the activity. Thus students contributed to this awareness project together with Odise Vuçinas.
Moreover, before the project 60 people were questioned about the topic discussed and the results of this survey were presented during the activity.
The research was conducted by the students of Public Relations and Advertising depatment Alev Ateş, Aybüke Keleş, Volkan Sanin, Umutcan Beyazıt and Zübeyde Gök with the support of Head of the School of Applied Sciences, Public Relations and Advertising Department Emel Tozlu Öztay, Faculty Member Nevra Üçler, Head of Vocational School of Higher Education, Department of Marketing and Advertising Fulya Beteş. According to the results, most of the participants have some information about organ donation but they were not sure if they wanted to be a part of it.
Psychodramaturg Odise Vuçinas thanked faculty member Nevra Üçler and the students of Public Relations and Advertising department for inviting him. At the end of the event Üçler presented a plaque to Odise Vuçinas.
