Quality Education
STET - Sengamala Thayaar Educational Trust Women's College
Red Ribbon Club
RED RIBBON CLUB
- The Red Ribbon Club (RRC) aims at harnessing the potential of the youth by equipping them with correct information on HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support and Treatment. It also aims in building their capacities as peer education in spreading message on positive health behaviour in an enabling environment. RRC are envisaged to instil among all the students in the educational institution values of service, develop healthy life styles, and increase access to safe and adequate quantities of blood to all the needy by promotion of regular voluntary blood donation.
RED RIBBON CLUB IN OUR COLLEGE
Honourable correspondent of this institution, Dr.V.DHIVAHARAN, has inaugurated RRC in this institution in the year 2006, 6th January. The Red Ribbon Club in the institution enrols new students every year.
MOTO OF RRC
To create Awareness About “The Life Threatening Disease AIDS to form an AIDS Free Society”.
VISION
MISSION
OBJECTIVES
CLUB ACTIVITIES
VISION
Red Ribbon club are envisaged to instill among all the students in the educational institutions values of service, develop healthy life styles, and increase regular voluntary blood donation access to safe and adequate quantities of blood to all the needy.
MISSION
To control and eradicate the spread of HIV/AIDS disease.
OBJECTIVES
- To instil skills into youths to live better and healthy life.
- Increasing the capacity of the education system in teaching, training of various basic health aspects and helping the adolescents and youth for achieving positive health.
- To ensure that every college going youth in the state is equipped with conceptual knowledge about various basic health aspects, which he may possibly encounter during his life.
- To motivate youth and build their capacity as peer educators and change agents by developing their skills on leadership, negotiation and team building.
- To promote voluntary non-remunerated blood donation among youth.
CLUB ACTIVITIES
- The club conducts the regular activities to encourage voluntary blood donation, blood group testing and increase Awareness on AIDS and its related issues.
- The club observed World AIDS Day for every year.
- The club organized AIDS awareness programme on “Growth and development self-esteem & AIDS awareness”, “AIDS Free Society”, “Role of youth in prevention and awareness on AIDS and Save girl child” to getting attention among the students.
- The club imparting 3 to 5 hour sessions on the curriculum “Celebrating Life” and also interactions with positive peoples, ICPC counselor, Blood Bank Medical Officers and Peer leaders conventions.
- Apart from this, RRC volunteers actively participating in the competitions (Incomplete storytelling, Drawing, Rangoli, Essay writing, Debate, Facial painting) and promote awareness campaigns like Rallies, Outreach activities.
- Red Ribbon Club is a comprehensive promotional and preventive intervention to enhance mainstream as HIV/AIDS among the youth in educational institution.
