Sankalp News

14th November is celebrated as the children's day. We at Sankalp also mark it as the day when the Thalassemia Day Care Centre at Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health was formally inaugurated. One year has passed since Sankalp India Foundation took a leap ahead and included management of thalassemia as one of the activities that the organisation was taking up.

7 November, Bangalore: Cure2Children, Italy and Sankalp India Foundation have come together to provide hope for the children suffering from thalassemia by offering HLA typing for the eligible families 'free of charge'. The HLA typing will enable the identification of the families who can opt for a permanent cure from thalassemia.

For many reasons, the district of Gulbarga has very poor performance when it comes to Voluntary Blood Donation.

We already have heard and experienced situations where rare blood groups like Bombay blood group have been a mystery to people in blood banking. Now, there are 2 more to add to this list: Langereis blood type and Junior blood type. Both positive and negative.

Is 15th August just another holiday where we enjoy ?

The first workshop under the banner of “Role of Colleges In Taking Karnataka Towards 100% VBD” was conducted at Rani Chennamma University, Belgaum on 31st August 2012.

Karnataka needs 0.6 million units of blood every year. The state has more than 2 million students studying in professional colleges across the length and breadth of the state. Yet the state has only 60 - 65% of blood being made available through voluntary donations.

In July 2012, Sankalp volunteers were involved in plethora of events and activities apart from the flood relief operations in Assam. Here is a peek into them 

IGNITING YOUNG MINDS