June 2016, Volume 6 Issue 6

Sankalp India Foundation, Bangalore, Think Foundation, Mumbai and We Care Trust, Mumbai collaborated with Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital,Mumbai and had started a Bone Marrow Transplantation Project at Mumbai for Thalassemia patients coming from financially poor background. The project was started in April 2016 and Karan Veer Singh from Think Foundation was the project coordinator. The first child who was transplanted was about to get discharged and the second child had got admitted. At this time we had a shocking news.

After the end of a long busy day as I sat to look at some videos, I got a call from Dr Reshma. She informed me that a child who is taking treatment at our centre needed an urgent appendicectomy – removal of his appendix which had become infected and inflamed. It was a Saturday night. The patient had travelled from a place 200km away from Bangalore and reached a prominent Government Hospital in Bangalore for the urgent surgery. However, there was no surgeon available at the hospital.

When I walked up the stairs of Samraksha today I realised that a little girl was peeping down from the stairs. The look in her eyes told me that she was waiting for me. I shared the usual pleasantries with the family and walked across a hall full of children and parents straight to the doctor's room. We had a meeting scheduled for the day and soon I found myself with 2 of my friends in a room discussing the future roadmaps.

Project Samraksha, the Thalassemia Day Care Centre at Rashtrotthana Parishat celebrated the World Thalassemia Day on the 8th May 2016. The event was eagerly awaited and carefully planned by the children themselves.

Sankalp India Foundation together with KLES Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College start a thalassemia day care centre in Belgaum

Sankalp Program for Thalassemia Management took a leap forward on 5th May 2016 with the inauguration of the 'Jai Shivshakti Center for Thalassemia Management' at KLES Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum. The centre was inaugurated by Dr Lawrence Faulkner, who has been our guide, strength and inspiration.

"The 13th Anniversary Program of Sankalp India Foundation was celebrated at Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital Auditorium on 21 May 2016."

The event was an occasion for everyone involved to get together, review the work done in the last year, plan for the year to come and thank those who made it possible.