About Sankalp

2025 was a landmark year for Sankalp India Foundation, a year when compassion became a measurable impact and every new milestone brought India closer to freedom from thalassemia and sickle cell disease. Across its core programs of Prevention, Management, and Cure, Sankalp continued to blend science, service, and empathy to reach more children and families than ever before.

Beginning the Year with Purpose
The year began with renewed energy and clear goals. January saw strong achievements from the year before:

The celebration of national festivals used to be one of the most anticipated events at Sankalp. As the organisation took on more responsibility and spread across geographies, we stopped coming together to celebrate our national festivals.

There are an estimated 110,000 medical labs in India. Just under one percent of these are even accredited. In places like Bangalore, the concentration of such services is much higher than the national average. And yet, today, Sankalp starts its medical and research labs - the "SANKALP LABS".

Sankalp India Foundation was awarded for Excellence in Voluntary Blood Donation at the Tran

April is a busy month at Sankalp India Foundation(SIF). This is the time when SIF reviews the work that the organisation has done in the past 1 year and lays out strategy for the year to come. Sankalp operates through teams which focus on different areas of the organisation's work. There is an emergency team, a team for the helpline, a team for thalassemia and so on. The process starts with accumulating all the performance and feedback data for the last year of work.

Given our quest to do full justice to our principle of Giving Life A Better Chance, it was essential that we spent some time on balancing rapid growth with consolidation of existing work. We dedicated almost the whole of last year strengthening ourselves.

People who read scientific data know that often they come across an abstract of a scientific publication which looks interesting but they cannot read the full article because of a prohibitive fee. Published scientific research seems to be within reach only to those who are part of elite academic institutions and business.

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.

On 21st May 2017 we also had the annual meeting of Sankalp’s advisory board. Mrs Jasmine Majethia,  Dr Lawrence Faulkner, Dr Shankar, Mr S V Iyer, Mr J M Maheswariji and Mr Yogeshbhai Lakhani (special invitee) attended the meeting beside the board members of Sankalp.