Bismillahirrahmanirrahim,

Assalamualaikum w.b.t 

 Still in progress! 😅

 

Last meeting - 22/08/2021

Well, its almost D-Day! So, today we had a meeting to go through the finalized timeline and flow of program thoroughly and assign a person in-charge for each day of the program to make sure the program run smoothly. It's sort of like who will be in-charge of posting the education materials in the group WhatsApp as well as on the Facebook page, who will be the MC and leading the discussion of each day with the participants. Just discussing about those task already make us nervous as we only have 2 day left until the program starts! 😅 However, we still made a back up plan if there is a person who did not available as two of the members still need to get their second dose of vaccine this week. Hopes everything goes well as planned! The person in-charge of each day are as follow:

1. Tuesday - Azah

2. Wednesday - Iffah

3. Thursday - Syazwani

4. Friday - Izzah

5. Saturday - Azah

 

We also discussed and sort out the materials that will be given to participants during the opening session such as tentative program, video and poster program briefing, poster for 'Healthy Plate Challenge', content for the discussion regarding how to read food label as well as education materials like video and info-graphics. At the end of meeting, we also set a date for a forum rehearsal as well as rehearsal for the discussion with our participants. I'd suggest that for the discussion, we should prepare a google form link for the participants to write their questions and concern regarding the topic of the day, so we'd come prepared to answer and discuss about their questions. Well, it does not mean that we did not accept an impromptu question. Its just better be safe than sorry😅 As the meeting ended, we are finalizing our own tasks as divided. 

1. Tentative, short video and poster of program briefing - Azah

2. Poster of Healthy Plate Challenge - Izzah

3. Content "How to read food label?" - Iffah and Syazwani


For our education materials, we also had one-to-one discussion with the dietitians from the 4 KK from PKD Petaling so that we can delivered the right and suitable content. Not like a group discussion😬, its more like 1 person, 1 info-graphic, 1 dietitian!😱 We are very grateful as the dietitians really guide and help us in every way as much as they can.

 

"Surprise!😏"


Actually, we already start interact with the participants since last Friday after I made the group WhatsApp👏. It is kind of new experience for us. I did introduce myself and the other members as diet buddy! We'd just welcome them and thanked them for participating in this program in a special message. There are about 18 of the participants. Well, several of them were quite responsive for the first greeting even though most of them were rather shy maybe and just read. But, its okay as it is just our first meeting. Big thanks to Syazwani, who initiated the response to my welcoming message to encourage other participant to be more active in the group! A day before our program starts, we decide to remind the participants and encourage them to participate during the opening session.


Throughout the preparation, we learned that nothing is impossible even if we had to made some changes and correction for our education materials in the last minute. We should never give up and be patient as great things take time right? Well, the group members had done a really good job with the help and guidance of the dietitians and our instructors.

 

Day 1 - 24/08/2021

Today is D-Day! At 9.00 a.m this morning, we had our introduction and opening session for our program lead by Azah. Before we started the session, we add our instructor in the group. This session is conducted through the WhatsApp group chat only as we did consider the situations of participants who are working. We start the session by greeting and welcome them and introduce ourselves through a short video as well as a poster! Several of them also greet us and liven up the opening session.



 
 

After we greet each other, I did continue to brief the program by releasing the full tentative of the program and start to explain each of the activity to the participants. Then, we did ask the participants to fill in their consent form and pre-evaluation form. We did also welcome if any of the participant to contact us directly in the group or personally if they had a question or concern regarding the program activity, platform used, or time of the activity being conducted. As they seem to understand the flow of program, we did end the opening session successfully. Basically, this is the tentative of our program:


In the evening, we started the first activity of the program which is info-graphic dissemination with the title of "Apa itu diabetes semasa hamil ?". Before releasing the info-graphic, we did greet the participants and remind them to fill-in the pre-evaluation form for those who did not fill-in yet. Then, we started to disseminate the infographic through the group chat and Facebook page. Along with the infographic, we did attach the google form link for them to ask question or state their concern if any. 

 At night, we conducted the discussion session lead by Azah. The discussion session is conducted offline in the group chat and is joined actively by a few participants. An hour before the discussion, we did discussed regarding the questions given by the participants. All of the members help and give their opinion  about the question. One of questions are rather unexpected and left us in dazed😲 However, I take the initiative to give my opinion after some readings and ask Pn, Shidah, dietitian from KK Damansara for her opinion. It turns out that for this question, we cannot give any specific answer and the participant need to consult the doctor as our program did not conduct a full assessment regarding their conditions. During the discussion, we also get an impromptu question. We were quite nervous but, we successfully answered the question. As they were no question and the participants seems to understand of what we discussed together earlier, we did remind for tomorrow's activity and end the discussion session after thank and bid them a good night. 

At the end of the day, we did look back on what can be improved especially in terms of interacting with the participants, diversity in conversation so that the program will be more interesting and remind the other members of their task for the next session with the participants. Throughout the day, we learned that we should know how to respond to unexpected situations/questions and keep seeking knowledge so that we can provide the participants with better answer and explanation. Well, it's a hectic day yet, it is quite fun and exciting!



Day 2 - 25/08/2021

Today is the second day of the program💪 I still cannot believe that we already start our program yesterday. Today's session is led by Iffah with greetings and ask the participants' conditions. Several participants did reply and greet us too. Then, we did give our apology as the info-graphic will be disseminated a bit late as there were some amendment needs to be done. Then, Iffah proceed to disseminate the info-graphics at 9.30 a.m with title of "Konsep Diet dan Diabetes semasa Hamil". As usual, the info-graphic is disseminated together with google form link for questions and concerns if any. We also start to promote our poster for talk this Saturday together with a viral message.


In the evening, Iffah did greet them again and introduce this evening's topic entitled "Apa itu suku-suku separuh ?". Then, Iffah started to disseminate the info-graphic together with the google form link for questions and concerns. However, as we monitor the google form through out the day, there were no questions from the participants regarding today's topics. So, we decided to summarize the whole two topics of the info-graphics. Regarding the discussion for today, we did it live using google meet and Syazwani suggest for us to postpone the time to 9.30 p.m so that more participants can join after settle down their activities at home like dinner and perform isya' prayer. So, we told and remind the participants regarding the discussion for them to prepare and get used with the new platform. Along with that, we also provide them with the google meet link for tonight session.`

We also did a meeting before going live with other participants as we were quite nervous for the first live session. We discussed on what we need to talk and share for tonight's session. Then, we did remind and encourage the participants to join us as tonight, we will brief them on the 'Healthy Plate Challenge' too. Well, we were joined by 5 participants and also a dietitian from KK Kelana Jaya, Pn. Aqilah. But, Pn. Aqilah only joined us shortly. 

 

Iffah lead the discussion by greeting them and start to address today's topics. We did encourage them to ask question, concern or opinion. While waiting for them to ask question, we proceed the discussion with  briefing on 'Healthy Plate Challenge'. 


As the briefing comes to an end, several of them start to ask us questions in the chat box and through open mic. We were very nervous but, in the end we successfully explain the answers even if the explanation is not so smooth. But, in the end participants get and understand what we trying to deliver to them. We also release the 'Healthy Plate Challenge' poster in the group chat so that the other participants who did not join the live discussion may as well join the challenge.Then, we did end the discussion, thank the participants for joining us and bid farewell for the day! Then, we did discussed a little bit for tomorrow session and Azah remind of the other members of their task for tomorrow.

 At the end of the day, we learned that we should be confident and try to overcome our nervousness while delivering the answers to participants so that they can understand more easily. Besides, we also should come prepared for us to be more confident and learnt the importance of not stopping in seeking knowledge. Anyway, we did quite well for the first live and learnt a lot from this session!



Day 3 - 26/08/2021

How times flies! It is already Day-3 of the program 'Mommy Eats Right'! Well, for today's session, we only has one info-graphic dissemination entitled "Indeks Glisemik dan Pola Pemakanan Rendah IG" and a live discussion session. Today's program activity were led by Syazwani with greetings and start to share today's info-graphic together with a link for questions. Even though there were only several of them actively responds to us, but, it is already make us happy and excited to share things with all of the participants. Even Pn. Aqilah, dietitian from KK Kelana Jaya also responds and greets us too.

 

In the evening, we had a rehearsal for tonight's session as we will be sharing a topic entitled "Cara Membaca Label Makanan". Azah also remind the other members to promote our poster again for the talk. Well, we were also remind and waiting for the participants to send a picture of their menus through Facebook or WhatsApp as 'Healthy Plate Challenge' starts today! 👏 We were quite nervous and feeling down as none of the participants send their picture of menu and participate the challenge.

Before the discussion session, Syazwani did remind the participant to join the live session and send the google meet link. After that, we did a rehearsal again as we have about an hour before the discussion starts. During the rehearsal, Syazwani tried to ask the other members opinion regarding what she summarize for today's topic as there were no questions for today too. Even Izzah and Iffah practice again as they were the one to lead the sharing session regarding "Cara Membaca Label Makanan". 

After all of the practice, Izzah suggest that we should record the live session so that those who cannot join can still review and get the knowledge regarding today's topic. We were supposed to do that for yesterday' session too but, none of us remember that. It is quite hectic as we only have 20 minutes before the live session but, we did not how and what app can be used easily to record. I did volunteer to record and remind the participants that the session will be starting soon. 

We start the session at 9.30 p.m which led by Syazwani and welcome them. We were joined by 3 participants and a dietitian from PKD Petaling, Pn, Yong Tse Jia. After Syazwani summarize today's topic, then, she open the question session. As there were no questions, she passed to Iffah and Izzah for the sharing session. The participants also said we explained it clearly and they did not have any question. Before we bid them a good night and thank them, we did remind and encourage them to participate in the  'Healthy Plate Challenge'. Surprisingly, as the live session ended, 2 participants start to send their picture of today's menu in the group chat and Facebook which make us happy and excited. We were very grateful as they did try to practice of what they had learn before and re-post it on our Facebook page. 


 

Regarding the recorded version of tonight's sharing session, I did try to record but there were some technical errors during the session and failed to record the entire session. However, Izzah said she successfully record for the sharing session and share after the live session ended in the Facebook page.  

From today's session, we learned the importance of supporting each of the members and help them even though it is not our own task. In other words, teamwork! If we were to be selfish, then we might not able to share the important message to other participants regarding tonight's session. Anyway, today's session ended successfully and hopes everything goes well for the rest of the program too!


It has been a long week right? I guessed I will stop here then😁 Thank you and do not forget to visit our Facebook page!

 

 

Till we meet again next time! Stay tuned :)