E-Journal | CSI Week 4 - Week 8

Evaluation of the EXECUTION

Overall the execution of our 14-day challenge was smooth due to the fact that the preparation was done pretty well and we were ready as the tasks were divided clearly between the group members. 😀For example, promoting the page, messages, interaction, posting the new post, reposting story and also the information or facts about mental health. Besides, my group members have better experience in organizing events like this and know well on how to manage an IG page too.💪

Feelings During Execution

First few days, we felt nervous and worried about not getting any response. 😖However, hard work pays off. There are many student bodies help us to promote our event, and the numbers increased too as we have gone along with more awareness about our challenge getting out there. And I was very happy that even there are people actually put our challenge in their story highlight. It truly encourages us as it gives us a feeling that we actually did something that helped some people out.😚

Challenges

The challenges we face in the execution is the privacy setting in the platform - Instagram. It is said because there are some people mentioned us in their story post but we couldn't see those story. We found out that is due to their privacy setting in their Instagram account.😅Therefore, we did something to solve this problem by posting a notice and telling the participants if their account is private, they could set it as public, or just sent us their story screenshot/ picture through Direct Message. 😉

Current Stage

Currently, we are at the post-execution stage where we prepared a survey form to collect the responses from the participants to gauge the achievement.🙌 It is to check if the expected outcomes are met, such as to check out if the awareness of mental health amongst the students and society was increased, how many people we actually managed to reach out, also to check out if the event provides any support to those suffering and help them to overcome.😊

Conclusion

When comes to "community service", they always relate it to monetary charity donation like the other 2 groups are doing the monetary donation😦, but I think we actually can help people in other ways. You may not know that a small action or words can inspire people or save people from some negative thoughts. There are many people who need help but never seek help due to the stigma in society. In conclusion, I believe the awareness of mental health and the positivity will be spread and raised gradually. 💖