Founded 23 May 2003 Location Bangalore | Founder Students Area served India | |
Motto Lets Give Life a Better Chance Type Non-Government Voluntary Organisation | ||
Sankalp India Foundation is a Bangalore-based non-government organisation. It a youth organisation working for blood donation, thalassemia and disaster relief.
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Voluntary Blood Donation
Since 2003, it has been working for voluntary blood donation in Karnataka. A blood helpline is run by the organisation. It also organizes several blood donation camps. It is one of the pioneer organisations which helps patients worldwide with a rare blood group "Bombay Blood Group" (also known as hh blood group).
Sankalp India Foundation has done extensive work in the areas of quality and safety of blood donation camps, studying the extent of non-compliance and adverse donor events blood banks in voluntary blood donation camps.
Thalassemia Management
It runs three day care centers in; two in Bangalore and one in Belgaum for children suffering from Thalassemia.
Disaster relief
Sankalp also participates in disaster relief activities. A few of the disasters in which it participated for relief are the Tsunami on the Indian sub continent, Karnataka floods, Sikkim earthquake, J&K earthquake, and the Assam floods.
Bone Marrow Transplant
In collaboration with People Tree Hospitals and Cure2Children Foundation, Italy, Sankalp is also running Bone marrow transplant centre in Bangalore for Thalassemia Patients.