Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Blood by SMS

Writer: Ayesha Feroz Shapurji

www. IndianBloodDonors.com

Blood by SMS

With no knowledge of how an online portal would work, Khushroo took on this life saving challenge. He mentions, "During the time, there were no companies booking or hosting web domains in India. I was paying $ 300 every three months to keep the site live and running. Meanwhile, I had spent almost Rs 40,000 in developing the website [www. IndianBloodDonors.com] and had gone practically bankrupt."
This was when he got the brainwave and contacted a television news channel (zee news) and requested them to flash the name of the website he had started for this cause. Minutes later the site crashed due to heavy traffic visiting it

Along came the cellular wave and www.indianblooddonors.com (IBD) became mobile. All one had to do was type out a message and send it to a short code and you'd have a list of blood donors in your inbox.

IBD is not yet registered as an NGO. Khushroo says, "We function as individuals. We don't take donations and only accept bumper stickers (of IBD) and postage stamps to send out those stickers and create awareness

If you want to do good work, you simply do it."as the saying goes the more u give, the more you shall receive. To him and his family's relief, ends were met mysteriously through some way or the other.

Writer:

Ayesha Feroz Shapurji


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3 comments:

  1. Samarpita SharmaSunday, September 26, 2010 10:06:00 AM

    Hi,

    This is Samarpita, editor with Youth Leader India, where the article was first published. Would like to inform you that the author is not Ritika Verma, please re-read the article and give the credits to Ayesha Feroz Shapurji.

    Thanks

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  2. UnknownSunday, September 26, 2010 10:18:00 AM

    Good Morning Mr.Saleem,
    I would just like to bring to your attention that the article you've posted here has been compiled and written by me and not ritika the editor of the magazine its published in.I don't want to take credit for anything but just would like you to reconfirm the facts and do the needful.Thankyou very much.have great day,Ayesha F Shapurji

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