Sankalp News

Rakta Kranti – the Blood Revolution movement of Sankalp has a special program for school children aimed at sensitizing the young minds towards blood donation. The students of class VIII, IX and X are educated on various facts related to blood biology through their school curriculum, but they are unaware about the process of blood donation.

The following is the experience shared by a student volunteer from Ammucare charitable trust after the blood donation camp organised at Mantri Espana on 29th July 2017.

Whenever someone asks about the vision for our thalassemia centres – we mention we hope to close them one day! The intention behind the statement was to reach a point where every child who is likely to do better with the option of permanent cure gets transplanted and enough is done to prevent new births with thalassemia.

The second meeting of the Sankalp Cure2Children Network was held on 21-22 September 2017 at Ahmedabad.

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.