Orientation Programme- Alcoholics Anonymous

An Orientation was  held on “Alcoholics Anonymous”  which was organised by the Department of Social work, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bengaluru, for the first year MSW Students. The orientation programme began at 3 PM with a speech from Mr. X where he explained about the organisation, the problem of addiction to alcohol as well as other types of addiction such as computer games addiction, smoking, and so on. He then continued with the topic of alcoholism and shared his experience. He explained as to how he got into alcohol addiction and what helped him change. The second half of the session was handled by Ms. Y who also shared her experience of having been an alcoholic in the past and how she got back her life through the alcoholics anonymous (AA) meetings. Later, Mr. X took over and stated in an elaborated way about alcoholics anonymous and about the meetings they have. There was a question and answer session during which there was an interaction between the students and the members representing alcoholic anonymous. 

The session ended at 4;00 PM and the vote of thanks was given to Mr. X and Ms. Y by Ms. Sreechitra from 1^stMSW who thanked the speakers for taking time to come to college and explaining to the students about AA.