August 2026 | Vol 15 | Issue 08

Care does not always come as medicine. Sometimes, it is a clean room ready when a child arrives.

For over 2 years, Chandra has worked as a housekeeping assistant at Sankalp, caring for the office and Thalassemia Day Care Centre. Everyone at Sankalp has a role in supporting children with thalassemia. Chandra sees this as hers: keeping their surroundings clean and safe whenever they arrive for care.

When four-year-old Rumaysa was diagnosed, her father, Naushad Ahmad, had never heard the word thalassemia. Soon, some told him there was no cure. Others questioned why he kept spending. How could a father simply accept his daughter’s fate?

Naushad left his work in the Gulf, spent lakhs together and travelled more than 2,500 kilometres, searching for someone who could offer more than another reason to give up.

What is the most valuable gift a child can truly receive on a birthday? For Amogh, it was a lesson he says he will never forget.

This July, his father, Mr. Pradeep, a volunteer at Collins Aerospace, brought Amogh and Anagh to Sankalp to celebrate with our children. They shared games, gifts, lunch boxes, meals and cake. Family members also donated blood.

What does an NABL audit mean to a family waiting for a laboratory report? It means the result they receive is backed by systems, checks and standards they can trust.

On 14th June, Sankalp’s laboratory completed its annual NABL surveillance audit under ISO 15189:2022. All 10 non-conformities raised were addressed through corrective and preventive action, with every response reviewed, accepted and closed.

On 24th July, representatives from NIIF Infrastructure Finance Limited, Mumbai, visited Sankalp’s BMT Centre in Bengaluru. They saw demonstrations of the Luminex System, PBSC machine and two ventilators supported through CSR, spoke with the medical team and met a beneficiary families.

Can a shopping mall become a place where lives are saved? Nexus Select Trust and Sankalp have shown that it can.

That’s the question we asked our doctors as we celebrated National Doctors’ Day on 1st July. One spoke about the trust a family places in them. Another spoke about helping children dream again. For some, it was the children themselves who inspired them to keep doing more. Their answers reminded us why they chose this path. We celebrated them in our own way. Nurses and staff performed a dance, everyone joined in for a quiz, thank-you notes were shared and the doctors cut a cake together. It was a simple, joyful way of saying: We see all that you do.

Heavy rain flooded Ahmedabad’s roads, but patients at Sankalp’s Jalaram Centre were due for transfusions. Waiting for the weather to improve was not an option.

At 7 a.m., our Logistics Coordinator left for Blood Bank to collect blood units samples. The journey lasted until 2 p.m. Meanwhile, the team kept the center running and completed every transfusion. By day’s end, no patient had missed care.

On 5th September, people from India and around the world will gather. Their contributions may have been different, but each helped make possible what once seemed impossible.

Why are they coming together?

We will leave that for the day itself to reveal!!

For now, mark the date. 5th September is eagerly waiting to tell a story shaped by years of effort, trust and belief—and by 1,000 new beginnings.

For prevention to work, it cannot arrive once as a camp and leave. It must stay within the hospitals and systems that families depend on.

On 31st July, Western Coalfields Limited and Sankalp signed an MoU to implement antenatal screening for Haemoglobinopathies through government hospitals across Nagpur, Chandrapur, Yavatmal, Gadchiroli, Chhindwara and Betul has signedup for stage 2. The agreement was signed by Shri Lalit Prakash Tirkey and Rajat Kumar Agarwal in the presence of Shri Bikram Ghosh -Director,WCL

Until 30th July, a pregnant woman in Gadchiroli who required fetal screening often had to travel to Nagpur or Chandrapur. For families from rural and tribal communities, this meant additional expense, lost time and a difficult journey during pregnancy. For some, distance could also mean delaying or missing timely prenatal diagnosis.