Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust (CCT) or Chiranjeevi Charitable Foundarion (CCF) is a social service organization which collects blood and eyes from people and donates it people in need of it.

Objectives

Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust has been started with two most important objectives,

1.To effectively bridge the gap between the demand and supply of safe and screened blood in the society

2.To bring down the rate of blindness and help the visually impaired in the society.

Besides these core focus areas Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust has certain long term objectives too, they include:

Provide Health Aid to the needy and the underprivileged.

Establish and Maintain Blood banks, Eye Banks, Artificial limbs centers, research centers. Identifying various other areas where measures are required to provide better medical relief to a larger number of people quickly and effectively.

Establish and Maintain Institutes for the treatment and rehabilitation and recreation of mentally and physically challenged children and adults.

Provide Educational support to poor children, establishing educational centers, provide monetary aid to the deserving students through scholarships, stipends and so on.

Establish and maintain Libraries for educational aid.

Establish and maintain Old Age homes for the poor and sick.

Establish and Maintain Hostels for destitute children.

Establish and maintain Vocational training centers for the poor and destitute women and children

To identify and carry out any other act that is necessary to realize the above objectives.

Milestones

It was founded by Chiranjeevi on On October 2, 1998.
It has got 3 Awards from AP Govt for its services.
It is the state's largest recipient of Blood and Eye Donations. The Blood Bank of the CCT helped over 80,000 people and the Eye Bank has helped about 1000 people in the state of Andhra Pradesh since its opening.

So far around 3.5 lakh people have pledged their eyes to CCT so far, giving 1600 people eye sight through CCT. CCT has also won the "Best Voluntary Blood Bank Award" by the AP State Government for the past 4 years.

On June 10, 2006, The President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam, inaugurated the Chiranjeevi Charitable Foundation (CCF) at the Jubilee Hills Check post in Hyderabad.[2]

Recently Chiranjeevi charitable trust has reached another landmark by crossing the one lakh mark in collecting units of blood and more than 96,000 people were helped with blood by this blood bank.

References

About CCT on President of India's Website

The Hindu Article on CCT

Dr. Abdul Kalam launches Chiranjeevi Charitable Foundation
Objectives Of CCT