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Orgamites Go to Primary School

Dates

Prices

Free Admission

Location

Athens

Information

Addressed to

Primary School Students (Second to Sixth Grade)

Duration

60 minutes

Cost

Free Admission

Schools that wish to participate in the program of visits can express their interest via email astamatopoulou@onassis.org.

With the simplest possible words and through the “Orgamites” characters, primary school children get to learn their body, but also the way in which organ donation changes the world.

What are humans made of? Which organs of your body do you already know? How do you protect your own health? How can a doctor substitute an organ that fails to work, with another organ?

This set of difficult questions turns into effortless storytelling, through the “Orgamites” characters, which were specifically designed for kids and for the Health Education course of the Hellenic Ministry of Health. The notions of transplantation, health, but also organ donation, become umbrella themes, in a discussion that opens up while engaging each and every one of us, regardless of our age.

In primary school classrooms, a hope rises that increasingly more people can learn stories about organ donation and share them with their loved ones; a hope that as many people as possible can become donors.

The Orgamites is an All Good Co. (CIC). Created by Roydon Turner. ©Copyright, Creative Direction and Production by Awesonova. All rights reserved

Program Implementation Models
The program will be implemented either by the teachers themselves: the manuals can be found in the Health Education course material, which was approved by the Hellenic Ministry of Health; or by the collaborators of the Hellenic National Transplant Organization, who will pay monthly visits to school premises, following an invitation, with the support of the Onassis Foundation.
Frequency of Visits
Twice per month, in Athens and Thessaloniki
Location

Public and Private Schools

Number of Participants

Two small school groups (maximum 40 people)

The program will be administered by the School Activity Managers of the affiliated Directorate of Education, who in turn can utilize it within school activity programs.Parallel to the above, more visits* by a mixed task force comprising trained scientists of the Hellenic National Transplant Organization and the Onassis Foundation, will be scheduled within school hours and after the schools’ request.

* Provided the conditions caused by Covid-19 pandemic permit it.

Credit

  • Originator

    Roydon Turner, All Good Co. (CIC)

A joint program by the Hellenic National Transplant Organization and the Hellenic Ministry of Health, with the support of the Onassis Foundation.

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