Kargil Vijay Diwas:
Every year, since 1999, 26th July is celebrated in India as Kargil Vijay Diwas. This is the day that India won the Kargil war in 1999 with the loss of 550 soldiers. To remember those brave Martyrs, Sankalp organized a Blood Donation Drive on this day and paid tribute to them. The Heroes were remembered, patriotic songs were sung and the events of the War were discussed. The site home page also contains a link where people can visit the page which displays the Martyrs and light candle to pay a tribute to these brave Heroes.
World Blood Donor’s day:
June 14 is celebrated as World Blood Donor’s day. On this day Sankalp decided to send out a thank you mails to all its donors. There was a felicitation of blood donors and volunteers attended the function and thanked the donors on that day. Also Sankalp got 40,000 English and 4000 Kannada brochures, that is donors’ manual, printed. This was sponsored by BMTC.
BDO:
There have been 88 cases from May 1st to May 18th. And the donations made were around 18 during this period. The Karnataka wide blood search options information has been collected. Now, the volunteers are calling the listed places and collecting the other details and also trying to establish contacts with them in case of blood requests. The negative donor registration is also taking place and 3 donors (approximately) are being registered every week.
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”.
