Blood drive coordinator
Help organise monthly blood donation camps across Chennai. Coordinate venues, donors and logistics. No medical background required.
Commitment: 4–6 hours / week
Get involved
Your time is as valuable as your blood.
Whether you have an hour a week, a weekend a month, or a professional skill we urgently need — there is a role for you at TWA Chennai. Our three dedicated volunteers and three staff members cannot do this alone.
Volunteer roles
Patient companion
Spend time with patients during transfusion days. Read aloud, help with homework, give a parent a few hours of rest.
Commitment: 2–4 hours / week
Office & digital support
Data entry, donor outreach, social media, graphic design, grant documentation. Work remotely or from our centre.
Commitment: Flexible
Fundraising & events
Run a workplace campaign, host a friends-and-family event, organise a marathon team. We provide collateral and on-the-ground support.
Commitment: Project-based
Medical & counselling
Licensed clinicians, psychologists and social workers contributing pro-bono hours for patient consultations and family counselling.
Commitment: By arrangement
Blood donors
Thank You to Our Blood Donors
This centre exists because of people who gave blood, again and again, with no expectation of return. Our patients — especially children — depend on voluntary, non-remunerated blood donation for life. We thank every individual, college, company, and community group that has ever organised or participated in a blood donation camp for TWA.
If your organisation would like to host a dedicated blood drive for thalassemia patients, please contact us — we will provide full logistical support.
Blood donors
You can give a thalassemia patient their next week of life.
Patients on our register need transfusions every 2–4 weeks. We coordinate drives across Chennai and welcome donors any time at our partner blood banks.
Eligible donors
Age 18–65, weight ≥ 50 kg, in good health and last donation more than 90 days ago.
Quick and safe
Whole blood donation takes about 10 minutes. Sterile, single-use equipment is used at every camp.
Health benefits
Donors receive a free haemoglobin and blood-pressure screening at every donation.
Save up to three lives
A single unit of whole blood can be separated into red cells, plasma and platelets, helping multiple patients.
Blood donors are the foundation of everything we do. Without consistent, voluntary donors, there is no alternative for our patients. We remain deeply grateful to every individual who has donated blood at our camps over the past two decades.
Every unit of blood donated at a TWA camp goes directly to a patient in our care. Over two decades, voluntary blood donors have been the single most important reason our patients are alive today. We remain deeply grateful to every donor who has ever shown up — and we welcome you to join the TWA donor family.