4th August, 2008… Saw another team come alive in Sankalp … Our dream, to see 100% voluntary blood donation, started involving the young minds, our country’s future potential, “going to be change makers”, the high school students…
After lot of understanding, preparation, and support the Rakta Kranti School team set out for the first time with enthusiasm, determination and a little fear, to educate the children about blood donation.
Sankalp India Foundation places highest importance to the safety and well being of all our donors. In order to raise the bar on the quality standards and the procedures adopted to keep our donors safe Sankalp has initiated a “Blood Donation Reaction Study”. This study will comprise of recording of all donation reactions which occur in our drives. This is an effort to understand and work towards making our blood drives safer and better for the donors.
Bangalore needs more than two lakh units of blood every year. However, only about 70 per cent of this requirement is fulfilled. There now is a fair amount of awareness about blood donation in society. Despite advancement in science and technology, there is still no means to “manufacture” blood.
Most of last month, the priority was our upcoming 6th Anniversary. The volunteers worked hard and spent ample amount of thought, time and energy to putting up a good show (like they say, citation required :) ). But we made sure none of our regular work suffers because of the Anniversary preparation. what was keeping us occupied?
CTC Disha continued spreading awareness about the helpline number in various government hospitals like NIMHANS, Sanjay Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Kidwai. The rest of the government hospitals including the government Maternity hospitals which were not targeted in the last awareness phase will be covered this year.
