Red ribbon club

 Red Ribbon Club is a movement started by the Government of India in schools and colleges through which, students will spread awareness over HIV / AIDS. It envisages to instil charity mind among all the students to extend their able help towards developing healthy life styles, donating blood to all the needy by promotion of Regular voluntary blood donation.

 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RED RIBBON IN HIV / AIDS IS:

• Red like Love, as a symbol of passion and tolerance for those affected.
• Red like Blood, representing the pain caused by many people who have of AIDS.
• Red like the anger about the helplessness about which we are facing for a disease for which there is still no cure.
• Red is a sign of warning not to carelessly ignore one of the biggest problems of our time. 

The club aims at providing awareness about HIV and to promote voluntary blood donation among students.The club also facilitates in conducting activities to make the student community aware about AIDS and its psycho-social impacts. We strive to create more voluntary blood donors from our institution through committed activities. 

Objectives

• To spread awareness among the students about AIDS.
• To promote effective action through leadership and shared responsibility at all levels of government and society.
• To educate the youth about HIV prevention methods in order to reduce new occurrences.
• To raise awareness and counsel the students regarding their health in terms of various diseases.
• To provide a platform for strengthening the responses to HIV among the diverse populations.       

              COORDINATOR : Greeshma. E