Rakta Kranti:
(a) Colleges: Towards the end of the semester, the colleges and students’ are busy to be approached. Hence, the volunteers are now working to build up a strong foundation, by getting all the necessary details of all the colleges. This would help them, to approach the colleges next semester.
Other team is also planning for preparation for the awareness programs in schools. The activity is expected to begin by June, when the schools re-open.
CTC Disha:
The volunteers visited Rainbow on Wednesday (23/04/2008). They were asked to go on air and talk about 1062 and Sankalp for about 5 minutes. Now Rainbow regularly highlights this number and its importance.
On Friday (25/04/2008), volunteers visited Radio City. They were posed a lot of questions and at the end of the discussion, they have agreed to broadcast about this number and regularly highlight it.
A part of Phase 0 of CTC Disha Awareness campaign was to use BMTC buses as one efficient means to reach out people. Initially, the permission to stick the stickers in all 5000 buses was seeked. But, the permission was given for about 100 buses. So, at Majestic Bus Depot, the buses will sport 6 stickers inside, which says “Looking for Blood in Bangalore: Call (080) 1062”.
While the world is busy with its own things, Sankalp volunteers are busy in their own way. This time, by designing two new websites (Blood de India and Team red) having specific roles. Blood de India, is a website, which aims to have all the donors all over the country access one site for anything related to blood donation. This may include accessing for the information relating to blood donation, having all the details of the quality blood banks and other related information in one place.
BDO:
This week, the emergency team received about 14 cases, out of which about 7 cases required AB –ve blood group, including apheresis donations for the same blood group.
