Sankalp's brainchild, Disha, which makes sure to network all major blood banks across Bangalore city with a single toll free helpline, i.e., 1062 was started off close to 3 years ago. With massive publicity campaigns and dogmatic acclimatisation to laid down policies and ideas, the helpline today has become indespensable for Bangalore city. Everyday 17 blood banks from across the city update their stocks and any person looking for blood just dials this single helpline number to get to know where the unit of blood is available. But this facility is available only for Bangalore city. So what happens to a person looking for blood in a remote area of Karnataka? Well, it's the same old story of helplessness and despair in the search for blood.
In order to turn this despair into joy for the entire state of Karnataka, Sankalp India Foundation has taken steps to make Disha grow wiser and bigger and better. The plan is to map the entire state of Karnataka with a single blood helpline.
The task is simple - Take Disha all over Karnataka. But how? This requires mapping all the 28 districts to this helpline, it requires visiting all of them in order to understand and ascertain the facts. It needs follow up visits to stabilise and keep the initial bonding afloat, it requires building small Sankalp units across the breadth and width of the state. The challenge looks immense, and Sankalp is taking them head-on visiting these pages to know how things move within.