PAWURA - Suicide Awarness Session
“Pawura” is a project which was organized by the Rotaract Club of University of Peradeniya, with the main focus of making the public aware about suicide prevention. This project included a webinar, and a live Q & A session which was conducted via Zoom, Facebook live and Youtube live streams with more than 200 participants. The session was conducted by a professional in the field, Ms. Thilini Wijesooriya; a counselor and a psychotherapist. Ms. Rasini Bandara, a professional counselor and a motivational speaker, Mr. Dhyan Hewage, a popular singer among the youth and Ms. Wageesha Salgadoo, a young actress and an artist also made appearances throughout the event and they addressed the audience sharing their thoughts about the project and their valuable advises for the participants.
Depression and suicide prevention, maintaining mental health and many more other important topics that are important to reduce the number of suicide cases were discussed in the session. A live Q & A session was conducted at the end of the event, where most of the participants got an opportunity to get their doubts clarified and many questions were asked regarding their personal experiences as well. The main objective of the project was to make people not see suicide as a solution for the problems they are facing and to ensure their mental health. Specially, most of the university students are depressed because of their academic environment and suicide is a global problem among the youth. It was also aimed at the general public to let them know how to identify a suicidal person and take necessary steps to help them and guide them to obtain professional help.
The idea of presenting a creative case study regarding a person with suicidal thoughts, before commencing the discussion with the guest speaker helped the participants to understand the mindset of a suicidal person in a more realistic way.
We were able to invite Mr. Dhyan Hewage - a young singer, Mr. Dasun Madusankha - a young actor, Ms. Wageesha Salgadoo - a young artist and an actress, Ms. Rasini Bandara - a motivational speaker and a professional counselor and also our Rtr. IPDRR Krishan Balaji as our guests for the evening and for our greatest pleasure they gave us promotional videos without any hesitation.
We were able to discuss the causes for depression and suicide, the inter connection between depression and suicide, current situation in the world regarding suicide, prevention of committing suicide and how the suicidal people should reach for professional help. The project concluded with immense success.
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