“Epilepsy is not a disease, and it is not contagious. It is a common neurological disorder that causes sudden, uncontrollable electrical surges in the brain. These brief interruptions in the brain activities causes periods of altered awareness, known as seizures whose nature and intensity vary from person to person.” Source taken from http://www.epilepsy.com.sg/epilepsy.html

In short, a person who suffers from epilepsy may suffer a short / long (depends on individual) blank out at any point of what they doing at anytime, when they are back to reality they forgot what happen before the accident take place.

Epilepsy Care Group (ECG) is a non profit volunteer-based organization. It aims to promote awareness, concerning and provide education and counselling to a person with epilepsy, their family member and to the public. Its objective is to provide social and emotion support, opportunities and activities for person with epilepsy and their caregivers.

Bases on the website they created, I believe most of the public do not know about this organization. Partly because the website seem clean. It stated who they are, what they do, contact information, activities, join them and some useful links. It’s basically a typically website full of information texts.

To gain more viewer and interaction between public, I believe the website should have a simple communication with the member of the organization itself. Inputting a simple chatbox in the website can actually begin a new interaction. To improvise furthermore the creator of the website could add an additional link path as to create a simple forum. Thus with is availability it helps the public, members and caregiver’s communicate in term of sharing views, opinion, suggestion of activities and so for.

Since Facebook is the trend now, having a group account about this organization is not a bad idea too. Thus it will reach out the other people in the network to join them. Sending them invitation and recommendation to other people, helps to increase awareness about ECG. It is also an easy and faster way to keep updates about their news and events to the public.

Another way is to use the old style method by advertising them by using brochure. Since epilepsy is a sickness, a person whose quite new to this might be emotionally break down for not knowing what to do. Simply by placing a few brochures at clinics, hospitals and polyclinics at the brochure holder border can create awareness to the people who are usually randomly picking up something to read while waiting for their queue. In addition, doctor who are apparently treating them for check up session or the nurse who giving medicine for them can actually offer this brochure to them. Thus it a win win situation, epilepsy people get help from them, the related member of the epilepsy person can actually know that such organisation exists thus exposing the information they need to know.


print screen of Epilepsy Care Group (ECG) website

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