RED Ribbon Club

Red Ribbon Club (RRC) is a comprehensive promotional and preventive intervention to enhance voluntary blood donation as well as mainstream HIV & AIDS prevention, care & support and treatment impact, reduction of stigma among the youth in educational institutions. It also prepares and promotes youth peer educators within the campus.

The aims of the Red Ribbon Club are :

The Red Ribbon Club of Malwa Central College of Education for Women, Ludhiana has rigorously aimed at achieving the Club’s objectives during each Academic session, which are :

• To instil life skills into youths to live a better and healthier life.
• To promote voluntary non-remunerated blood donation among youth.
• Promote regular voluntary blood donation by young people and increase access to safe and adequate quantities of blood.
• Organize and facilitate voluntary blood donation camps and mobilize the youth for voluntary blood donation.
• Create among the youth a cadre of Teacher educators for seeking and encouraging positive health behaviour and ensuring the club's sustainability.
• Educate youth with correct, concise and adequate information and heighten their level of awareness about HIV/AIDS/STI/sexuality and other related issues (thus eliminating myths and misconceptions).
• Enable youth, especially female students, to identify and understand situations of exploitation and abuse.
• Sensitize the youth regarding the care and support needs of People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and instil in them the spirit of helping and supporting the people living with HIV & AIDS (PLWHA) and reduce the stigma and discrimination against them.
• Increase youths’ access to health care services related to STI / HIV/AIDS/drug use.
• Create linkages between youth and governmental, non - governmental agencies and CBOs to access safer and responsible healthy behaviour.