We asked one of the BDO Volunteers to tell us something about today's blood requests. She stared back at us, and then at her mobile phone, and then uttered the words -"Chal Rahe Hain!" This is what grossly summarizes the day – 10th December 2008 for our emergency wing.
Summer brings with it a strange pleasure and fun to all of us. School children look forward to summer vacations with excitement to pursue all their non curriculum activities. People plan vacations and excursions in summer, visits to hill stations are quite common. Summers are a time where the the trekkers and mountaineers go into the woods to answer that voice from within to scale the mountains. Ice cream lovers relish all their flavors in summer. Summer months in India are a wonderful experience. Summers does bring in problems too, summers are hot.
Excitement and secret plannings.. Passing on the some details and maybe polishing the acting and mimicry skills. As and when time permits, the volunteers huddle up or individually can be seen doing this as part of the preparation for WAR OF THE VOLS being organised for first time. And it is the first time which is always the most exciting one and all of us are gearing up for it.
Diwali is approaching and we at Sankalp have all the more reasons to celebrate the festival. A number of activities are happening, and to list them down, we have Donors' registration at MSRIT and IISc, three blood donation drives in two weeks and follow-up from the Blood Bank Meet, that is CTC Disha Awareness Campaign, phase 2.
13th September 2008, CTC Disha completed its two years. This initiative which was started to make blood search easier and simpler in Bangalore has made a difference to the blood banking system in Bangalore. Today any person looking for blood in Bangalore just needs to dial a single number 080-1062 to know the blood statistics in 13 standard blood banks in Bangalore.
The second blood donation drive for MSRMBDS was held on saturday (4/10/08). The response was good and 26 units were collected (against the permitted 20units). The permitted number of units was less this time, because of the annual blood donation drive being organised next month in MSRIT.
The number of people registered were 33 but 7 people were deferred making the final count to be 26 units. There were no instances of fainting. Only one girl felt a little giddy after donation, but soon felt fine.
