The objective of our Public Awareness Campaign is to spread awareness of Thalassaemia to general public, to carry out screening of the carriers, and ultimately, to minimize the birth rate of Thalassaemia Major babies in Sarawak.

Our activities include public lectures, exhibitions & road shows, blood screening and circulation of Newsletters.

Educational Talks

Our initial stage of the Campaign was targeting high school and college students. The coordinators Stephanie Wan Ullok, Violeta Chan and Catherine Sia had been working very hard to contact various schools in Kuching to set up the Educational Talk and blood screening programs.

A few members of the Kuching Hornbill Toastmaster Club had volunteered to be our public speakers. With all the materials and slides provided by the Sarawak Thlassaemia Society, these speakers whom were trained by Dunstan Chan and accompanied by our medical advisors, had successfully accomplished their missions at the following schools:

1998 Campaign

• SMB St. Joseph, Kuching
• SMB St. Teresa, Kuching
• SMK Green Road, Kuching
• SMK Sg. Maong, Kuching
• Sunny Hill Secondary School, Kuching
• Batu Lintang Teachers Training College, Kuching

1999 Campaign

• Kuching High School, Kuching
• SMK Petra Jaya, Kuching

2000 Campaign

• SMB St. Teresa
• SM Teknik, Miri
• SMK Penrissen no.2, Kuching
• SMK DPHA Gapor, Kuching
• SMK Tun Abdul Razak, KM38, Kuching
• Tun Tuanku Bujang College, Miri

Stephanie talking to SMK Green Road Secondary School students.

Exhibition at St Thomas Cathedral on 18th October 1998.

We also welcome any institution or charitable organization to include Thalassaemia educational talk, exhibition and blood screening in your activities. Please email or contact our coordinator Catherine (082 - 255486) for further information.


More of past year's activities