“Blood is the most precious gift that you can give to anyone,” believes Dr. Abhishek Nanda, owner and moderator of Yahoo! Group Sanjeevini. He says that every two seconds someone needs blood, which can be arranged as 60% of the population is eligible to donate blood but we always have a crisis as only 5% of the population donates blood. To bridge this gap, he runs the group, spreading awareness about blood donation.

The group maintains a database of people, interested in blood donation, with their blood group and other details. Every week, the members have been able to fulfill 2 requests on an average and the membership is increasing by 3-4 people everyday. The vision is to consolidate local organizations in many small cities under one umbrella of Sanjeevini to create a helpline for blood donation.

Last month, the group organized their first blood donation camp in Goa in association with “HRiday”, the HR club of Goa Institute of Management (GIM). Seventy four students donated their blood at the camp, which was backed by a blood donation awareness campaign.

There is no substitute for human blood. To learn more about blood donation join Sanjeevini now. If you want to share an interesting story of your Yahoo! Group, please mail it to us at groups@yahoo-inc.com. Stay tuned for our next coverage.

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Shefali
Yahoo! Groups India Community Manager

Pullamangai is nestled amongst 2000 year old temples near Kumbakonam, the city of temples. The members of Ponniyin Selvan Yahoo! Group paid a visit to this lesser known town when one of the group members, J.Chandrasekaran , observed the dilapidated condition of the temples. Here, at the Pullamangai Shiva temple dating back to the ninth century, he saw the mastery of the Chola artisans in ruin. This moved him to search for groups involved in preserving heritage. His search led him to Temple Cleaners , a Yahoo! Group created by Mr. Rajan Ganesh an IT professional. Since then, Chandrasekaran has been moderating this group, which has grown it from 7 to more than 450 members.

According to him, there are more than 40,000 heritage sites in Tamil Nadu and approximately 250,000 heritage sites in India. More than 200,000 inscriptions remain undiscovered containing valuable information about medicine, archaeology and astrophysics in these temples. The single objective of Temple Cleaners is to work towards saving the ancient heritage.

The group’s members have formed a non-profit organization called Reach Foundation, which helps in rural education and conservation of heritage. The members go to villages that have ancient heritage and educate the villagers about it with the help of volunteers from Archaelogical Survey of India (ASI). Many IT professionals join them on weekends for cleaning the temple as this serves as a great stress buster for them. The founder of Reach Foundation is the famous archaeologist Dr. Satyamurthy who has renovated many temples in India. Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple, Thanjavur temple and Konark temple are just few of the temples that were renovated with his involvement.

Care for ancient Indian heritage? Join the Temple Cleaners now. If you want to share an interesting story of your Yahoo! Group, please mail it to us at groups@yahoo-inc.com. Stay tuned for our next coverage.

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Shefali
Yahoo! Groups India Community Manager

Once upon a time, there lived a simple girl who, after completing her graduation, got married and settled down in Mumbai. She spent her time taking care of her family. But destiny had different plans in store. She ended up spearheading a group of over fifteen thousand members from all over the world. This is the story of Mrs. Bilquis – the proud moderator of Dil-Maange-More.

“No dream is too big or small, every dream should be fulfilled,” Bilquis feels. “I wanted to do something different and creative. That’s when my brother, Mr. Asif, showed me how to surf the internet,” she says. “I got on to the web and joined a friendship group belonging to Mr. Mubeen Meo and eventually he convinced me to create a group of our own. However, he moved on, leaving the responsibility of moderating Dil-Maange-More entirely up to me. That’s when Yahoo! Groups became an integral part of my life.”

Dil-Maange-More is a group of friends that surpasses the boundaries of age, location and occupation. Founded in the summer of 2006, the group has been quick to get members – mostly because of the quality of mails. Bilquis ensures that only the best content is sent out in the form of friendship mails, jokes, inspirational quotes and wallpapers to name a few. Other than the mails, there seems to be an elusive, underlying emotion that connects these members and keeps them asking for more!

To know more about the group Dil-Maange-More, join it now. If you want to share an interesting story of your Yahoo! Group, please mail it to us at groups@yahoo-inc.com. Stay tuned for our next coverage.

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Diti
Yahoo! Groups India