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GB New Year’s Eve Celebration – Golden Butterflies hosted a virtual New
Year celebration with St. Jude India Childcare Centres, Chennai. Children enjoyed the evening with our stories, songs, dances and a special magic show.
GB New Year’s Eve Celebration – Golden Butterflies hosted a virtual New
Year celebration with St. Jude India Childcare Centres, Chennai. Children enjoyed the evening with our stories, songs, dances and a special magic show.
GB Christmas Cheer celebrations of Golden Butterflies Foundation for Dec 2020.
30 families along with 40 child patients and siblings joined the fun and went back with gift hampers and groceries from Santa and the Chief Guest Dr Republica Sridhar Founder Trustee RMD Pain and Palliative Trust. Thanks to our numerous donors.
Golden Butterflies conducted 4th Caregiver’s meet in order to care and support these caregivers. 30 caregivers along with their children and child patients participated in the caregiver`s meet conducted. They were enlightened with basic knowledge of low cost Nutritious Food by Nutritionist Specialist Mr Vishaal, Joint Founder and Ms Shruthi Sridhar, Founder, AURA Holistic Wellness Centre. Ms. Lavanya, Trustee engaged them in a Weaving Activities - Rhyme & Weaving (Art Therapy). These activities made them feel to relaxed.
12.11.2020 - Golden Butterflies turned 2 on November 14th 2020!!!
This year we combined Children’s Day (our Anniversary) and Diwali for a mega celebration, and organized a virtual DOUBLE DHAMAKA for the children of St. Jude India Child Care Centres on November 12th 2020.
The theme for the event was “My Care, My comfort”. It was a memorable, fun-filled event, with stories of Courage, Wisdom & Resilience.
'Coffee & Cheese' – a Fund Raising Event was organized for World Hospice & Palliative Care Day in collaboration with Kase & Beach Ville to raise funds for chemotherapy and medicines for our child-patients. We were able to raise around Rs. 1,50,000 /- .
Golden Butterflies organised a 12 hours online session on Certificate Course in Paediatric Palliative Care Counselling.
A rejuvenating session for the Bandwagon team to brainstorm new ideas for the new normal. It was an energetic session with activities that reiterated their talents led to the origin of our 1st MAGIC ENVELOPE.
Golden Butterflies organized our first Caregivers Connect from our new office – Purasaiwakkam. Caregivers Connect was a place meant for the bereaved families to connect and share, have a space to grieve, and also get the information and support they need.
20+ families attended the session, with some families bringing their children. A brief talk was given by Mrs. Vijayalakshmi, Counsellor from Lakshmi Pain and Palliative Trust, on the importance of the caregivers to take care of their health and minds. This was followed by providing groceries and educational kits to the families.
All the necessary precautions, as mandated by the health authorities were taken. Social distancing was maintained. Masks were mandatory. Temperature check and hand sanitizing was done before entering the venue.
Mrs Stella Mathew spoke to the MSW students from Loyola College, Chennai on The Importance of Counselling in Palliative Care. The talk was organized by RMD Pain & Palliative Trust.
12.06.2020 - Mrs Stella Matthew, Managing Trustee had a very successful session with the participation of over 65+ from across the Tamil Nadu. She presented on the topic of Stress during Pandemic times.
Families across the globe have been heavily impacted during the last few months, with loss of loved ones, loss of livelihoods, an uncertain future, and a plethora of factors brought in by the pandemic. As always, Stella is leading by example by educating on identifying the signs of stress so that people can reach out for help for their emotional well being.
– Mrs Stella Matthew, Managing Trustee presented on the topic of Social Entrepreneurship at the webinar on future skills & entrepreneurial educational hosted by the University of Madras on 11th and 12th of June with the participation of 65+ from across the Tamil Nadu.
GB is very grateful to SIDBI for their timely support to our Child patients & families with Groceries and Sanitary stuffs. The families are very thankful for this great support.
Thanks to our WINGS volunteer Lakshmi for reaching out to our child-patients and handing over groceries to them. GOD BLESS YOU!!
Golden Butterflies Ambassador and Malayalam Actress Aparna Gopinath with her colleague in Medi Clowning for our children @KKCTH
GB Bandwagon conducted Medi Clowning by Aparna Gopinath & Team. Malayalam Actress Aparna is Golden Butterflies Ambassador and trains people in Medi Clowning too. Was an Awesome experience not just for the children@ Childs Trust Hospital but also for the entire family members, nurses and Wings.
On March 2nd & 3rd Capacity Building Certificate Course was conducted in "Compassion & Understanding Paediatric Palliative Care" for MSW students of MSSW... Lots of Role plays and activities were the highlight of the 2 day program. Speakers were Dr. Shafikah ,Dr. Subratra, Dr. Rejiv, Ms. Lotus, Mrs. Vijalakshmi, Dr. Hemal & Mrs. Stella
GB Wings Training session along with RMD, DEAN and MF volunteers in Psychodram & Creative Art Therapy @ Prem Vihar Hall (Lady Andal) conducted by Rochelle (YRG) & Latha!!
Golden Butterflies Team participated in the IAPCON conference @Guwahati from 13th to 16th Feb 2020... And presented a Poster - Experiment in Art Therapy.
Today is World Cancer Day... GB spent some wonderful time with children @ St. Judes and brought happiness & laughter in them.
DRUMS CIRCLE Work Shop with GB Wings conducted by lavanya on 1st Feb 2020
Golden butterflies spread their Wings: Collaboration is the key
Golden butterflies in Chennai demonstrate how 1+1 can be 3. They work with institutions and other non-government organizations (NGOs) to infuse heart into medicine.
Pallium India had the privilege to be part of an event in Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital, Nungambakkam, Chennai where Golden Butterflies brought together doctors of eminence as well as trainees and other staff for a discussion on palliative care. The discussions included pain management, social support and end of life care. In addition to the presentation by Pallium India, Dr. Revathi Raj of Apollo Cancer, Dr. Julius Scott of Paediatric Oncology Department, of SRMC, Dr. Rejiv Rajendranath of Intergrated Cancer Care and Dr. Arathi Srinivasan spoke.
When remembering the resistance that palliative care met with in the 1990s, this acceptance of palliative care by the larger medical community was indeed heart-warming.
Later, we also visited RMD palliative care centre run by Dr Republica Sreedhar and team, with whom Golden Butterflies is collaborating to set up a cheerful room for children needing inpatient palliative care.
Report:
Expert talk on Paediatric Palliative care - Present Status and Future Directions
Golden Butterflies Children’s Palliative Care Foundation, in association with Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital, Nungambakkam, organized a talk for pediatricians and post-graduate medical students on Paediatric Palliative Care by Dr. M. R. Rajagopal, Founder of Pallium India, a leading palliative care service provider, headquartered in Trivandrum, Kerala. Dr. Rajagopal was conferred the Padma Shri in 2018 for his efforts to make palliative care available at the homes of patients.
A video about Golden Butterflies was played.
Dr. M. Balasubramanian, Medical Director of Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital, Nungambakkam welcomed the gathering and requested that all pediatricians listen to the parents and children before starting treatment./
Dr. Rajagopal thanked Golden Butterflies for the invitation and Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital for hosting the talk.
Using stories, Dr. Rajagopal illustrated that:1. Treating a patient should include, physical, emotional and social well-being of the child as well as the family.
2. "Nothing further can be done" is a statement that cannot be used by any doctor in palliative care field.
3. Doctors need the services of society through trained volunteers, nurses, counselors, and therapists in order to treat a family holistically.
4. Poor prognosis causes immense emotional stress for the parents, and affects other siblings too.
Dr. Revathi Raj of Apollo Cancer Institute gave her expert comments. She mentioned the immense need for providing counselling services to the patients and their parents.
Dr. Julius Scott of the Paediatric Oncology Department, SRMC said that having Dr. Rajagopal among the fraternity was a dream come true, and that his practice has been positively influenced by the work of Pallium India.
Dr. Rejiv Rajendranath of Intergrated Cancer Care spoke about the work of Golden Butterflies and rededicated his time to overall care of his patients.
Dr. Julius Scott and Dr. Arathi Srinivasan were honoured by Dr Rajagopal.
The vote of thanks was delivered by Dr. Hemal Kanvinde, Trustee, Golden Butterflies.
The talk was held in the auditorium of Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital, Nungambakkam on 28th January 2020, from 2-3 pm. More than 180 people participated. They were undergraduate and post-graduate students of MBBS, Nursing, and Social Work, staff of NGOs, and hospital physicians were in attendance.
10th GB Bandwagon @KKCTH Story telling with a difference by Trustee Lavanya and supported by OUR Wings.... Thanks to Our Donors IWC Madras Central & Mrs. Usha Saraogi for their continued support to GB.
GB celebrated Pongal...O...Pongal with a lots of children @ YRG Care. Thanks to ALL the donors for supporting us!!!