Kanaa Blood Donation Camp - Aug 2014

Date : 15-Aug-2014
Venue : Christ King Girl's Hr. Sec School, East Tambaram.

"Human blood is one of the most precious gifts a human being can give to another. No wonder the blood donors are called saviors of mankind. If someone really loves oneself and other fellow beings, voluntary blood donation is an exemplary method to express it. "

On the occassion of 68th Indian Independence day (Aug 15,2014), a blood donation camp was organized at Christ King Girl's Hr. Sec. School, East Tambaram. The camp was organized by "KANAA CHARITABLE TRUST" in the school campus under the supervision of sister Karunya(Head Mistress, Christ King School) along with a supporting staff Mrs. Daisy. This camp helped students in getting awareness about their social responsibilities. The Camp started at 09:45 a.m and went up to 2:00 p.m. A team of 10 members came from Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital Blood bank to conduct the camp.

According to the information presented on the occasion, only 50 percent of the country's blood requirement is fulfilled through such blood donation camps. Hence, there is a need to create awareness amongst our youth for active participation in such a noble cause. Prior to the camp an introductory speech regarding the blood donation and the importance of blood was given by Mr.RenuKarthick Sukumar, Kanaa Charitable trust.

The camp is organized in a much disciplined manner checking each and every aspect of participant's health. It was great to see more people than per-registration numbers turning up in the venue. Not only men, but, large number of women also came forward to donate blood. Due to such brave women's the percentage of women's donating blood has augmented worldwide.

During the blood donation process after registration set of checkups like blood pressure and other tests were conducted by the medical team. Then, the hemoglobin content of the particpants were checked before donating the blood, clearly telling the particpans about their health condition. After the medical check-up of the donors where taken to the blood donation are where blood was taken.

Refreshments were provided to the donors after donating blood. The donors received certificate of recognition from blood bank. Students from Nursing group & NSS unit of Christ King Girl's Hr. Sec. School helped the participants and gave moral support to them for donating blood along with Kanaa Volunteers.

Finally, the collected blood were carefully sealed and transported away to the hospital, while the volunteers and hospital staffs helped in all activities. Throughout the day, there were smiles and laughter all around - a true embodment of what we believe in - selfless service with a smile.

Students of NSS Unit & Nursing group of Christ King Girl's Hr. Sec. School were provided a certificate of appreciation from KANAA CHARITABLE TRUST for helping & volunteering the camp.

Our sincere thanks to Sister Karunya, Headmistress - Christ King Girl's Hr. Sec School, Mrs. Daisy, Staff - Christ King Girl's Hr. Sec School for helping and providing the venue to conduct blood donation camp.

And our Special thanks to Rajiv Gandhi Govt. Hospital Blood bank team, Chennai.

The purpose of life is not only to be happy but to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all and by Donating these people made some difference in their life was well as the recipients lives.

Kanaa Blood Donation Camp - Aug 2013

To the young and healthy it’s no loss. To sick it’s hope of life. Donate Blood to give back life. 

Date : 15/08/2013
Venue : Cantonment School, Pallavaram

Kanaa conducted a blood donation camp on the 15th of August,2013 – Independence Day, in the Cantonment Primary School, Pallavaram.

 The camp started at 9am an intended, our Kanaa volunteers were in the venue by time. It was a gloomy day and it was drizzling all morning. Thus slowing down the donors’ arrival. Meanwhile our volunteers reminded all the donors who had registered online for the camp. As the day progressed, rain god showed mercy and sky cleared up. The donors turned up slowly and our volunteers helped them to fill in the forms and guided them to the doctors.

We had over 65 donors and over 60 units of blood by the end of the session. This count wouldn’t have been possible without the efforts taken by our volunteers to promote the camp. All the blood units were collected for VHS blood bank.

We are happy and thankful to Mrs. Sathya Natarajan for her kindness and involvement without which this event would not have been a success. We are also thankful for the tasty food she served us with. A special mention about Prof. (Dr.) Antony D’Silva our event partner from MY MASTER for the active participation in the camp.

The blood you donate gives someone another chance at life. One day that someone may become a relative, a friend, a loved one. 

Blood Donation Camp - Jan 2014

“You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”.

Date   : 26-Jan-2014

Venue :  Maraimalai adigal Govt. Hr. Sec. School, Pallavaram .

26th Jan 2014 was one such perfect day!!!

Kanaa team takes immense happiness in thanking all the donors who came forward to save lives. We had 85 active donors from whom 77 units of blood were collected. We thank each and every one who came forward and donated blood to make an essential difference in someone’s life. All these donors experienced their perfect day.

Success of an event lies as much in the hands of the organizers as much as in active participation. Our success is the end product of time tested techniques concocted with the experience obtained through various events, and execution perfected by the dedication of our volunteers. The time and effort expended in spreading the awareness about this noble cause was well justified by the substantial response obtained from the public. This serves as an inspiration to conduct more life transforming events.

Our heartfelt thanks to Prof. Dr. Antony D’silva, founder – My Master, for his support in conducting the camp and provision of refreshment for the donors.

Our sincere thanks to
1.Mr.M.Thiyagarajan, Arul Institute
2.Mr.D.Jeyaprakash, Vice-Chairman, Pallavapuram Municipality
3.Mr.D.Jeyavel, DJB Enterprises
4.Mrs.Roslin, Head mistress, Pallavapuram Municipality primary school, Pallavaram, 

for supporting us with the venue to conduct blood donation camp.

Special thanks to the LLMRF (THE LANDSTEINER LAKSHMI MEMORIAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Public Charitable Trust Blood Bank) The team of 10 members from the foundation provided immense support in conducting the event.

“Blood donors perform the miracle of saving innumerous lives, which might not have been resurrected to see the light of day, but for the donors”

We are both happy and proud to realize that the donor count and the number of blood units that are collected have increased across the events that have been conducted in the recent past.. Our sincere thanks to everyone who helped us make this event a success. Inevitable is your support to take this wonderful cause ahead and save more lives.

Join Hands to serve the humanity.

Blood Donation Camp - Jan 2013

"Everyone wants to serve the world, We have taken our first step in reaching to the mankind " - Kanaa Team.

Date   : 26-Jan-2013

Venue :  Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chrompet.

On saturday (26/01/2013), Republic day. Lions Club and Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chrompet had conducted a blood donation camp. The event started off with the flag  hoist in the premises of Vivekanananda Vidyalaya from 8.30 am to 9.30 am. Mr.Ravindran, Correspondent-Vivekananda Vidyalaya had requested our team to take part in the event. Renu Karthick, Thameem, Saravanan from KANAA  team attended the flag hoisting ceremony.

 A team of 2 Doctors, 4 Nurses and 5 helpers from VHS (Voluntary Health Service), Chennai arrived  at the venue by 9 a.m and started their preparation for the drive.

Blood donation drive started by 9:30 am. We expected 3 categories of donors.

1. Donors registered through KANAA.
2. Alumni's of Vivekananda Vidyalaya.
3. Parents of Children's who are studying in Vivekananda Vidyalaya.

Mr. Ravindran, Suggested us to take responsibility of donors. We had to receive them, help them in filling registration forms, we also had to guide them to the blood donation room and provide them the nutrients after they donate blood. We split the responsibilities among ourselves and started working for the camp.
 

Key features about the drive:

• AC Hall with 10 beds were allocated for the drive.
• Nutrients provided by VHS for the donors after donating blood.
• Tea and snacks was provided for each donor before donating blood
• An exhibition about vivekananda took place inside the school premises, donors were allowed to visit the exhibition before and after donating blood.
• Tea, snacks was provided for our volunteers during the drive and Lunch was provided for our volunteers after the drive by Vivekananda Vidyalaya.
• Momento's were provided for all the volunteers from Vivekananda Vidyalaya.
• We expected around 150 units of blood but we had 335 active donors and got around 270+ units of blood.

We thank every donor who came forward to give blood, We thank Mr. Ravindran, Correspondent, Vivekananda Vidyalaya for engaging us and recognizing our efforts and service towards humanity. Our special thanks to the Parents, Teachers and the Alumnus of Vivekananda Vidyalaya who supported this camp and made the event a grand success.

We thank the VHS team (Voluntary Health Service, Chennai) for guiding us in this service. We also thank all the members and volunteers from Lions Club and Vivekananda Vidyalaya.
Last but not the least, it wouldn't have been possible to bring together such a huge amount of donors and win their patience towards a social motto. It happend because of our team work, 23 volunteers from KANAA & their time for this valuable serive. Thank you for the support. Way to go team!!!

Seminar on Mobile Technology

Date: 26/09/2012

Venue: Crescent Engg College

On request from Mrs.Anusuya. T, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Information Technology, Crescent Engineering College. We planned to conduct a seminar on Mobile Technology for the final year students of IT Dept. Accordingly, On 26th, September 2012 we had conducted sessions on different mobile technologies like Android, iOS and also we had taken a session on Scope on IT.

Mrs. Vijayalakshmi. C, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Information Technology introduced our team and the chief guests to the students. Following the introduction, Mr. RenuKarthick Sukumar of KANAA team given introduction about KANAA and team, also he briefed about the activities, events conducted by KANAA. Then, he introducted Mr. Balamurugan Rajamani, who has 3+ years experience in iOS technology worked in different corporates and created various applications in iOS which is available in itunes(Apple Apps Store) and Mr. NirmalKumar Sathiamoorthy, who was a budding entrepreneur and founder of INSANE LABS. Mr. Nirmal was part of the LIMCA Book of Records, June 2012. (Ref: Article dt. Jun22,2012, Hindu) and also he has conducted various workshops at at SSNCE, SRM, PEC etc.

Then, Mr. Balamurugan has started his session on iOS technology, he initially started with an interaction with students regarding the Mobile technology and explained the evolution of iOS, continued with the various developments in iOS. He had shown demo on how to create an application using iOS technology for iPhone and iPad. He initiated students to create their own applications with their ideas and he had given ideas for developing applications of their own. Finally, he briefed about various opportunities and emerging scope on iOS technology which will be the future of mobile technology.

Mr. Nirmalkumar, started showing demo on his own applications which he created and interacted with the students grasping their knowledge about the Android devices and applications. Then, he started with the history of android and given demo on creating applications on android using Eclipse IDE. He has given ideas to create applications using open sources which will be the future of IT.

Then, Mr. RenuKarthick started a session on Scope on IT. He started with the different technologies available in the market and the scope of each technologies. Then, he delivered a list of ideas for the freshers How to face interviews and various problems that will be faced by freshers. He also motivated students to structure and shape their career.

Finally, Mrs. Anusuya. T, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Information Technology thanked the KANAA team and the chief guests for their valuable time and a interactive session evoking the students ideas & their level of Knowledge. Mrs. Latha Tamilselvan, Head of Department thanked our team for providing valuable session and she asked for more sessions and workshops on different technologies in upcoming days.

About Us

Old women on the roadside beg for food, street children lack nutrition and look hungry, a disease attacked man is found on the roadside, lacking proper treatment.

On seeing these people, we pitied them and decided to help them. But we couldn’t due to economic constraints during our school days.

During our college days we got a chance to help these people. We formed a group and started helping orphanages and homes that provided food and shelter.

Later, we realised that most of the orphanages and homes get enough funds (money) for running their organisation and also enough support from public. So we looked out for a good cause wherein we could help the needful.

Thus, we focused ourselves to serving people and society directly. We discussed among ourselves and named our organization KANAA (Kanavu).

KANAA is a social welfare trust founded by a young and vibrant group of friends. Since 2012 Kanaa has been a non-profit and non-governmental organisation runned by a group of enthusiastic friends with a vision of empowering the society .The aim of Kanaa would be to invoke the unique personality of a child and also to motivate adults to be responsible citizens who will be role models for future generations.

Kanaa was established on 19 October 2012.

All our programmes are designed to ensure:

1) Provision of basic needs, free food, clothing, education and medical aid to orphaned children and aged people.

2) Organisation and conduction of programmes to educate youth, illiterates and downtrodden people and guide them to be good citizens in society and to serve the country.

3) Helps underprivileged children by providing access to extracurricular activities like sports, music, dance, art, learning foreign languages, etc.

4) Help and guidance of the weaker sections for better development by providing drinking water and organizing medical camps for the poor and needy people.

5) Making certain the educational privileges reach children who are unable to attend school.

6) Conduction of blood donation camps and social awareness camps.

7) Enabling the disabled to acquire skills for employment.

The Kanaa team comprises corporate professionals, MBAs, who bring their experiences and perspectives to the organisation and are unified by the common vision of improving society.

If you require additional information about Kanaa please contact us via ngokanaa@gmail.com or +91-8122881947 and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Board of Trustees :

• S. Renu Karthick (President)
• G. Sathyanathan (Vice-President)
• J. Prabu (Secretary)
• V. Selvam (Treasurer)
• A. Selva Kumar
• A. Dinesh Kumar
• A. Thameem
• P. Ramnath
• R. Priyadarshini
• S. Saradhasan

Legal Advisor :

Ms. R. Mercy Malini, B.L., M.L.

Advocate, Chennai Highcourt.

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