The second meeting of the Sankalp Cure2Children Network was held on 21-22 September 2017 at Ahmedabad.

Sankalp took birth in a hostel room - bringing to an end a tormenting helplessness which arose when a person lost his life waiting for blood in Bangalore. The young organisation took baby steps in the common spaces of the college premises after the regular college hours. Meetings happened under the trees and sometimes at the tea shops outside the nearby hospital where the incident had occurred that night.

Though Pooja was the first child in the family of Gopal bhai and Jasu ben, Khushi brought more happiness to the family as one can always find a sweet smile on her small face. She was born to the GopalBhai family which was living in a small village called Jamjodhpur in Gujarat.

My heartfelt thanks to all who supported and guided me to participate in one of the prestigious conferences for nurses, The APHON Annual Conference in Palm Springs, California, USA. APHON is the professional organization for paediatric haematology/oncology nurses and other paediatric haematology/oncology healthcare professionals.

In August 2017, Team Sankalp crossed 2 major milestones. Sankalp-People Tree Center for Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation, Bangalore crossed the 50 mark of the number of patients transplanted. We were able to achieve this just before its second anniversary. By August end, we reached 55 number of transplants .