April 2008: Rakta Kranti and CTC Disha

Rakta Kranti:

(a) Colleges: The Blood Awareness Week held at Sapthagiri college led the institution to organizing a fabulous blood donation drive. The camp in Sapthagiri College was held on 20th March. There were two Blood banks and the number of units collected were around 275 units. With this the Team Red in Sapthagiri College becomes the first to taken an organization through teh complete cycle of awareness-education- motivation and then donation.

This week, from 24th March, the Blood Awareness Camp is being held in Maharani Lakshmi Ammani College. The NCC Cadets of the college have taken it upon themselves to educate and motivate the students on blood donation.

(b) Companies: A camp will be held in Alcatel Leucent on Wednesday (26/3/08) at three locations. the camp will be from 3pm to 6pm. Expected number of donations is 60x3 (180 units) and 1 blood bank has been called at each location.

CTC Disha:

CTC Disha continues to propogate the message of "looking for Blood? Dial- 080-1062 to the hospitals in Bangalore.The private hospitals were visited last week, and all the remaining private hospitals that have been chosen for this campaign will be done by this week.
Following that, newspapers and radios will be visited from this week.

The dengue crisis

Recently a volunteer of the Sankalp emergency wing was interviewed on the current blood shortage that has hit the state due to dengue. Read on-

Q. Tell me about the situation?

Events for World Blood Donor Week 2010

World Blood Donor Day is celebrated to create awareness about the importance of voluntary blood donation and encourage more people, especially the Youth, to become regular blood donors who donate two or three times in a year. Apart from encouraging people, 14th June is a day when the individuals who have saved lives by donating blood and become super hero are thanked and acknowledged.

Taking the same spirit ahead Sankalp planned an elaborate World Blood Donor Week at MSR Hospital and MSR Group of Institutions to carry forward the message.

The Rakta Kranti boost for Dengue: 1100+ units in 2 months!

Although all reports indicate that the city is running at possibly the lowest levels of stocks for certain blood components, it is not that Sankalp is just complaining about it. Over the 2 month period from June 2010 to July 2010, Sankalp organised multiple blood donation drives with more than 1100 units of blood being collected. A million thanks to all the organisers and donors for standing up to the challenge. Here is a brief note on all the various camps held with different organisations.

 

June 2010: Sankalp moves ahead on the right track

With most of the Sankalp volunteers on vacation due to semester end holidays, only a handful of volunteers are involved in various Sankalp activities. Here is a snapshot of what happened in Sankalp over the last few days

 

 

 

The Dengue Season is in and the phones keep buzzing

Dengue MosquitoThe dengue infections have reached their peak in Bangalore. We have scores of patients around the city receiving treatment for the same. A direct impact of this is the increase in workload of the Sankalp Emergency Team.

Normally after a good blood doonation drive we try to sit back for a while believing that the units collected in the drive will be available to the patients. However, this season it is different. On Saturday 17th July, we had more than an hour long session when the phone hardly was put away. We had more than 6 blood requests - all for platelets - and all of them for multiple units of platelets. The city is seeing the worst crunch for platelets. The poor staff at the call centre is reporting nil stocks for platelets for most part of the day and simply forwarding the requests to be handled as emergency. And for the emergency team, the challange of ensuring timely supply of platelets is becoming a bigger challange with each passing day.

 

World Blood Donor Week

Thank You Blood Donors on World Blood Donors DayThe World Blood Donor Day is celebrated on a world-wide scale on 14th June. This time Sankalp has taken the initiative to organize a Blood Donor Week Smile

The week highlights are inauguration of World Blood Donor Week, Donor Felicitation program organized in M. S. Ramaiah Memorial Hospital and Blood Grouping and Haemoglobin testing in all the Institutes in Ramaiah Campus.

 

Worshop on Blood Components

Workshop On Blood Components

Since it's inception, Sankalp has called itself a blood donation organisation. Those are big words for a bunch of engineers, because blood is a vast area in the medical field. understanding blood becomes highly critical for all volunteers and work in a more meaningful manner. there have been tremendous advancements in science and this has led to various new things.

 

Not just blood, but also Google search experts!

One fine evening, Few of the volunteers of Sankalp emergency wing received a call. A patient in Gulbarga urgently needed AB- blood. Gulbarga is one of the remotest places in Karnataka with very little blood awareness, and finding a donor there was a tough challenge.

Last year @ Sankalp

The Year 2009-10 was an eventful year for Sankalp India Foundation. The group of 30 individuals who call themselves Sankalp volunteers were kept very busy with the back to back activities that took place in the last year. We are happy to bring to you the yearbook of 2009-10.

May 2010 Updates: The Sankalp Clock ticks on

The month of May was a busy one for the Sankalp volunteers. Most efforts went into getting things moving for the anniversary programme. Nevertheless, some things are always important and they have to move on. The clock ticks on, and so do the volunteers of Sankalp in their respective teams. Here is an update of what happened in the month that went by

 

Sankalp Disaster Relief Partner Program

Sankalp India Foundation is happy to announce it's much awaited "Disaster Relief Partner Program". First of it's kind in the country, this Program lays the roadmap for better disaster response planning.

Sankalp celebrates being 7

Unveiling of Abhivyakti - The Annual Sankalp MagazineOn the 22nd of May this year, Sankalp India Foundation celebrated being 7 years old. To mark this milestone, a small event was organized at MSRIT. Well wishers, parents of volunteers, members from the blood banking community, friends, and people from organizations with whom we work were all part of the event.

April 2010: Stepping towards 7th anniversary

CTC Disha

April was a busy month for the Disha team. The team started work to ensure that the online update mechanism that has been setup to ensure better inputs for other Sankalp team comes on track. The initial few sheets have been added and more is being done to provide regular accurate inputs.

Sankalp T-Shirt for the 7th year anniversary

The Brand New Sankalp T-Shirts are on their way. It costs Rs 250, gray in color and is available in Small (S), Medium (M), Large (L), Xtra Large (XL) sizes.