Details of Events on Suicide Prevention Week 2011

Details of events.

Date	Time	Program	Speaker/Resource Person/Guest	Outcome
3/9/2011	2:00 pm	Online Signature Campaign p	MaFo –Chairman and Founder Member	Awareness about suicide prevention.
5/9/2011	10:00 pm -3:00 pm	Educational Seminar on Stress, Depression, and Suicide Prevention to Urdu Medium Institutions	Makro Foundation Confederation of Voluntary Association.	200 students
6/9/2011	11:00 am -12:00 pm	Stress Management program in Roda Mistry College of Social Work, Gachibowli.	Dr. Niranjan Reddy  Psychologist	100 students
7/9/2011	10:00 am -2:00 pm	Educational seminars on Depression, Suicide Prevention amongst Students of Telugu Medium Institutions.	Makro Foundation and Confederation of Voluntary Association.	200 Students
8/9/2011	6:30 pm-7:30 pm	Choose Life -Candle Light Rally.	Makro Employees and Volunteers.	100 people.
9/9/2011	11:00 am -1:00 pm	Seminar on Stress, Depression, Suicide Prevention - Hindi Medium Institutions.	Makro Foundation	200 students
10/9/2011	11:00 am-1:00 pm	Outreach in Public Place-Distribution of Flyers, Posters on Suicide Prevention	Makro Foundation Volunteers	4 Public Area Coverage. Secunderabad railway station and Nampally railway station.

Choose Life Campaign

Makro Foundation (MaFo) is promoting “CHOOSE LIFE Campaign –Suicide Prevention in Multicultural Societies” to mark the worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicide by organizing a weeklong awareness program  “5th September 2011- 10th September 2011” to mark the World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September 2011.

The objective is to raise Awareness in Multicultural Society and Encourage People to Adopt Help Seeking behavior and Prevent Death through Suicide.

World Suicide Prevention Day is marked globally on September 10 each year. The international theme for 2011 is "Suicide Prevention in Multi Cultural Societies”.  It is more than a day about suicide prevention. It is a day to celebrate life, to remind everyone why we should all value our lives as people, and “We need to encourage each other that anything is possible, that the darkest of times never last, and to remember that there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

The day was first marked in 2003, when the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the World Health Organization designated September 10.It is important to shatter the stigma on mental illness and make sure everybody knows it’s OK to talk about it, to get help, and to embrace life.

Outcome: The series of events is organized is to raise awareness through Collaboration and partnerships between communities, practitioners, research and industry about suicide being a   major preventable cause of premature death. For further details please contact us at 040-4600 4600 or log on to http://www.suicidehelpdesk.org/mafo2011