Convener : Sri N. Sambasiva Rao, Asst. Prof., Department of Political Science
Under National AIDS Control Programme (NACP), the Red Ribbon Club in the institution was established in the year 2012. The club conducts the regular activities to encourage Voluntary Blood Donation and increase Awareness on AIDS and its related issues.
The Students have satisfaction beyond any scale that they are able to serve the society. Patients suffering from chronic blood deficiency, accidents, undergoing critical surgery are provided with blood through the KBN Help Line. Every year the people approaching for blood are able to get the benefit ‘free of cost’.
Objectives:
Educate youth with correct, concise and adequate information and heighten their level of awareness about HIV, AIDS, STI and other related issues (thus eliminate myths and misconceptions).
Enable youth to identify and understand situations of exploitation and abuse.
Sensitize the youth regarding care and support needs of people affected with HIV, AIDS and instil in them the spirit to reduce the stigma and discrimination against them.
Create and train among the youth a cadre of peer educators for spreading awareness about HIV-AIDs and its prevention in the community.
To encourage blood donations
To serve as forums for students to participate in the fight against HIV/AIDS
Additional function:
The RRC promotes access to information on healthy life and voluntary blood donation. The Red Ribbon Club is a voluntary on-campus intervention program for students. The programs organized by RRC addresses the knowledge, attitude and behaviour of the youths in the interrelated areas of Voluntary Blood Donation like HIV & AIDS as demanded by their age, environment, and life style.
Activities in Our College
By involving the members of Red Ribbon Club of our college, we are conducting AIDS/HIV Awareness programmes, Cultural Events and many other activities like conducting rallies, competitions for the benefit of our students and also for the general public and in our adopted villages by inviting Doctors and AIDS affected people.
Every year we are organizing Blood Group Identification and Test camp for our college students and also for the Government schools in and around Vijayawada.
We organize Blood Donation Camps by involving Government Hospital Blood Bank and other Non- Governmental Organisations. On an average, we donate at least 125 units of blood every year from our volunteers through KBN HELP LINE.
KBN HELP LINE - DONATE BLOOD AND SAVE HUMAN LIFE
KBN College is situated in an urban locality surrounded by a number of villages which are largely inhabited by SC, ST, OBC and socially and economically backward communities. They face great difficulty while arranging blood at the time of emergency. In collaboration with the Rotary Red Cross Blood Bank, Vijayasri Blood Bank, Government General Hospital Blood Bank and Capital Blood Bank, the College organises blood donation camps under the aegis of NSS, NCC and Red Ribbon Club. ‘Donate Blood- Save Life’ is the motto used to encourage volunteers to donate blood. This process enabled us to connect with the Red Cross Blood Bank and other Blood banks in Vijayawada and work in unison with them.
Objectives:
To save lives of people in critical condition by making the required blood group readily available in the Krishna District Area.
To ensure the instant and immediate availability of the required blood group 24x7, throughout the year.
To create, update and maintain a Directory of Voluntary Donors so that the required blood is available on request immediately.
To generate awareness on Blood Donation and its significance in saving lives during emergencies particularly during obstetric emergencies and accidents.
To motivate students to donate blood voluntarily and to maintain a permanent well-indexed record of voluntary blood donors.
To educate and create awareness in the public on the beneficial aspects of blood donation and the harmful effect of collecting blood from paid donors.
To actively encourage voluntary blood donation and gradually eliminate professional blood donors.
KBN HELP LINE PRACTICE:
Blood donation is an ennobling act and very important need of our society. On our College Foundation Day every year, the NSS, NCC and Red Ribbon Club of our college jointly conduct Blood Donation Camps in collaboration with Rotary Red Cross Blood Bank, Vijayasri Blood Bank, Government General Hospital Blood Bank and Capital Blood Bank to collect blood from volunteers and make it available at all times, wherever and whenever it is needed. Awareness programmes like seminars, invited talks on the importance and need of donating blood is created. Every year about 50 to 100 units of blood is collected in the camp. Patients suffering from chronic blood deficiency, accidents, those undergoing critical surgeries are provided with blood through the KBN Help Line. Every year people who approach in need of blood, are able to get the benefit of blood donated freely. This practice has enabled the students to overcome the hesitation and wrong notion about blood donation. Many of them adopted it as a healthy practice now. The RED RIBBON CLUB of the College maintains the Directory of Voluntary student blood donors and the units of blood donated to different hospitals.
Purna Cardiac Hospital, Y.V. Rao Cardiac Hospital, Dr, Ramesh Cardiac Centre and Pallem Peddeswara Rao Heart Care are some of the main beneficiaries of blood procured from voluntary Blood Donors. Through this service, we could inculcate moral values and sense of social responsibilities among the students. Initially a few number of hospitals were provided with the blood. Later, over years the number of hospitals has increased as more and more students volunteered to donate blood.
